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Fuji Copying and Translating Invention 2007-09-29 07:49:00 The great variety of languages confronting an average person every single day have created a lot of headache. Especially if the boss is strictly demanding translations of a document at his desk till the end of the working day.If this is a way things are done at your job, you should hear good news from Fuji Xerox - which has begun to produce photocopy machines translating the Japanese text into Chinese, English and Korean.The copying machine is connected to the translation server. It is equipped with the hardware containing algorithms, which can distinguish between the written text, lines and pictures, so as the original layout of a newspaper, a magazine or a document will be preserved.Unfortunately for the tired office workers all over the world, the miracle-copying machines are currently available only in Japan. Whether the new invention will do a better job in the matters of syntax as compared to Babel Fish or Google Translate, is still unknown.However, the hopes for better future st Read more:Copying
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Business Applications Embracing Web 2.0 2007-09-28 02:07:00 It looks like businesses have finally started embracing web 2.0 principles. At least, Cisco Systems is actively moving into this direction. On Thursday, Cisco announced that the company plans to acquire Latigent, a Chicago-based business intelligence and analytic reporting tools provider.Latigent was co-founded in 2002 by CEO Chris Crosby and CTO Jason Kolb, who will both join Cisco after the close of the acquisition. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco's 2008 fiscal year.With this move, Cisco will be making a push into Web 2.0. Web 2.0 applications have already proven that when it comes to collaboration, the principles underlying web 2.0 are effective. Read more:Business
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Halo 3 Record 2007-09-27 07:00:00 Microsoft Corp’s Video Game -“Halo 3”outdid all the video games, and movies and set an opening-day U.S sales record of $170 million. “Halo 3” overcame even movies such as Spider-Man 3 -$59 million, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', and ”Halo 2” too-$125 million, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst, Michael Pachter estimates that 2.5 million copies were sold starting with midnight store promotions coast to coast, meaning one-fifth of all Xbox 360 owners bought a copy in the first 24 hours. "I would guess that the number is 1 million higher in a week, and double by year end."GameStop's Bob McKenzie calls Halo 3 the biggest title in the history of the 4,400-store chain. And Best Buy's Brian Lucas says: "It's safe to say Halo 3 is on track to be probably the biggest gaming title that we have ever seen. It's definitely a phenomenon.""Halo 3" is targeted firmly at the Xbox's core male audience, for whom realistic combat games are a staple.Halo 3 is launched in 37 cou Read more:Record
The 12th Child of the Family Weighs 7.75 kg. Do You Think it is the World Record? 2007-09-27 04:00:00 Tatyana Barabanova, 43 years old, Siberian woman gave birth to her 12th child, Nadia. She weighs not less than 7.75 kg (17.1 lb). Family
members are surprised but as the mother says each of her children weighed more than 5 kg.Still, It is not the world record. 10.2 kg baby was born in Italy, and the other 10.8 kg in the United States of America. Read more:Record
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Web 2.0 For Europeans by Europeans 2007-09-27 02:31:00 Recently a new European Web 2.0 social networking site called MyPacis.eu has been launched.MyPacis.eu uses Web 2.0 tools which are very attractive for younger generations, but still accessible to more mature ones. Overall, the website offers many web 2.0 tools (blogs, photo galleries, member profiles, videos, real-time news, etc) found on other social networking web sites. However, compared to existing social networks in Europe, MyPacis.eu has been designed to be easily localized in every European language, instead of focusing on one or two national markets. Read more:Europeans
Praized Media Inc. Secures $1 Million in Seed Funding 2007-09-27 01:31:00 A Montreal-based internet start-up company Praized Media Inc announced today that the company has secured $1 million funding from Garage Technology Ventures Canada.The start-up operates in a stealth mode and at the moment it is unknown what company's exact product will be. However, it is known that Praized Media Inc. is working on a sofware that will connect blogs, social networks, and local search in ways never seen before. Read more:Funding
SISI System Converts the Language to Sign Language 2007-09-26 15:01:00 A group of students, cooperating with the IBM during the 12 weeks of camping (a program initiated by the University of East Angela, UK) were able to invent new software converting the spoken and written language into the sign language. The system called “SISI” ( Say it sign it ) will be a great help to the deaf and dumb people worldwide. The program is directed by the “Digital Person” translating the spoken or written words into the universal sign languageAccording to the IBM spokesman the new software will immediately solve the long-standing problem of lack of interpreters in various events.Apart from this, the new program will be used for the automatic translation of the TV and Radio programs, as well as for the translation of incoming telephone calls.The new technological achievement has got the approval from “The Royal Institute for the Deaf in Britain”. Gedo Gebelz, Director of the Institute for New techniques stated that: "our Institute welcomes any new technical disc Read more:System
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What Does Britney Spears Face? 2007-09-25 03:01:00 What Is the Result of Reversing Following Combination of Letters YENTIRB SRAEPS?Will not make you lose time and say that it is BritneySpears
.Want to know more about her?There are lots of web sites about her:Britney Spears
World of BritneyBritney.comBritneySpears.orgBritney Spears - TMZ.comBritney Spears - IMDbBritney Spears - Yahoo! MusicBritney Spears Video Pictures - FOXNews.comwho is britney spearsBritney SpearsWell, if I list all the links existing in the world of internet, I should say that there is no time and patience. There are about 41,600,000 results spread over 100 pages. Just type Britney Spears.I am not a fan of her. But Even if you are not, it is impossible not to hear about her on TV, Radio, Newspaper, Internet. The latest news I came across about her is that she hit the parked car and was charged with misdemeanor hit and run causing property damage. She's also charged with driving without a valid license.Seems she had left neither note for the driver of the vehicle, no
Belgium on Sale for 13.9 Million $ 2007-09-24 15:35:00 The famous site of electronic sales, "EBAY" recently withdraw the declaration Belgium
on sale from their list. The announcement was published on the 15th of September. Just in several days price of Belgium had increased from the initial price of 1 euro to 10 million euros ( 13.9 million $ ).The author of the advertisement, a former journalist Geritt Seks divided Belgium into three parts (Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia ) and put them on sale separately, since according to him, purchasing the whole country would be too expensive.The most amusing detail in this entire story is the fact that Seks warned the prospective owners about the 300 million national debt. In case of purchasing separate pieces of Belgium, each new owner would have to pay just 100 million euros each.As Seks has later commented, his sole aim was to attract attention, what he undoubtedly achieved, as he has become a favorite respondent of the reportersThe Spokeman of the EBAY say : this is not the first time Belgium is
Has Apple Forgotten People With Disabilities? 2007-09-24 03:10:00 Well, it seems so. At least, Apple
has forgotten that there people with ear disabilities out there. When iPhone is held up to a cochlear implant and or a hearing aid it gives out a loud buzzing interference.Due to this problem, a group representing people with a hearing loss filed complaints with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission last month. The group is accusing Apple Inc. of not making its iPhone compatible with hearing aids.This complaint may turn pretty expensive for Apple. Results may vary from paying refunds to customers with disabilities to redesigning the device altogether. However, according to documents posted on the FCC's Web site, Apple may not be required to make changes to the iPhone. "Handset manufacturers that offer two or fewer digital wireless handsets in the U.S. need not comply with the hearing aid compatibility compliance obligations," the FCC states.Photo source: BusinessWeek.comThis post has originally been posted on iPhone.Blogvasion.com Read more:Forgotten
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PlayStation 3s Joint Power Delivers a Petaflop Performance 2007-09-23 03:01:00 Stanford University's Folding@Home program studies proteins to understand their goal in cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases. Of course, this kind of research requires enormous computing power. The University's network has been running 200,000 computers.PlayStation
3 owners are able to hook their consoles to the network and help the program accomplish its goals. Since March 15, 600,000 PlayStation 3s have been connected to the program delivering a petaflop performance to the university's network.The software to connect PlayStation 3 to the network is provided by Sony. The application is free and donates computing power from your PlayStation 3 to the network when your console is idle.PlayStation 3 is an extremely powerful machine, far more powerful than average home computers. PlayStation 3's multiple 3.2 GHz cell processors deliver nearly 1.8 teraflops of computing power. Read more:Joint
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TOSHIBA-Cell Based ‘Streaming Processor’ 2007-09-22 06:08:00 Toshiba, known as the world leader in high technology, produces advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances.This time Toshiba offers Cell Based ‘Stream Processor’. And what does it do? To judge generally, cell processors fill the gap between conventional desktop processors and specialized high-performance ones. The new product, processor is called the SpursEngine. On October 2, it is expected to be introduced. The objects, new cell processors will serve are: PCs, special concept notebooks. SpursEngine is mostly designed for processing video stream.“According to the company, the system will "instantaneously recognize and process changes in position, angle, and facial expression," rendering them as computer graphics.”There are four synergistic processing e Read more:Streaming
The Only Way for Safe Remove 2007-09-21 19:40:00 You are deleting a lot of files from your computer every day, and some time later you again find yourself regretting about the deletion of some of those files? Well, not any more!The designers have invented a new dustbin connected with the desknote via an Wire-less connection or Bluetooth.The new recycle bin is equipped with a special CD connected to your computer. Every time you are deleting a file from your computer, a copy of this file is sent zipped to the dustbin. After being entirely full, the dustbin will send a signal of alert, requiring some files to be removed permanently. The project of the new dustbin is still placed on the designers' shelf, waiting some big company to purchase the design and to provide the new invention to the global market.
Moore’s Law Coming to an End Within 15 Years 2007-09-21 03:12:00 Electronics, Volume 38, Number 8, April 19, 1965 that published Gordon “Moore
’s Law” says that the number of transistors placed on an integrated circuit doubles every 18-24 months. Moore’s evaluation is as following: “…The object was to miniaturize electronics equipment to include increasingly complex electronic functions in limited space with minimum weight.”Today’s achievements show the results of all the theorized and later practically realized viewpoints of Gordon Moore, “Silicon Valley has kept up with his widely accepted maxim for more than 40 years, to the point where a new generation of chips, which Intel will begin to produce next year, will have transistors so tiny that four million of them could fit on the head of a pin.”According to the predictions of Gordon Moore by about 2020 his Law will come up against the laws of physics. "Another decade, a decade and a half, I think we'll hit something fairly fundamental,"declares Gordan Moore on the Intel’s twi Read more:Years
Price Cut Boosts Xbox 360 Sales 2007-09-20 03:54:00 According to NPD Group's video game sales data for August, Wii and DS are still the top sellers. However, after price cut on Xbox
360, sales of Microsoft's game console have boosted by 63% and have surpassed PlayStation 2 sales.If we take into account that both PlayStation 3 and Wii sales have declined in August, Xbox 360 sales dynamics are pretty impressive. Moreover, the release of Halo 3 is expected to further increase Xbox 360 sales. Read more:Sales
Microsoft's Appeal Against an EU Antitrust Order is Dismissed 2007-09-18 05:06:00 Today European Union court dismissed Microsoft
's appeal against an EU antitrust order that ordered it to share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player. The court upheld a $689 million fine as well.The software giant has two months to appeal the decision to the EU's highest court, the European Court of Justice. The company lawyer didn't say whether Microsoft will or won't appeal.Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/17/eu.microsoft.ap/index.html?iref=topnews Read more:Appeal
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Scotland Lost a National Hero 2007-09-17 11:44:00 Scotland has lost a national hero and the motorsport world - a man with extraordinary spirit. Rally legend Colin McRae along with his five-year-old son died in a helicopter crash on Saturday.McRae became the first Briton to win the World Rally Championship in 1995. McRae was devoted to motor sport with his heart and his soul. He has taken part in Le Mans, Paris-Dakar and even piloted Martin Brundle's Formula 1 car.McRae is extremely popular in the world of computer games. The first Colin McRae Rally was released in 1998 by Codemasters followed by the second release in 2000. The second release was available both for PC and PlayStation. The latest game DiRT's PlayStation 3 edition was released on 14th of September, day before McRae's death. All of the games were inspired by the legendary driver.The world of motorsport will never be the same without McRae. Read more:Scotland
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Need to Protect Your Idea, Invention, technology, work or product? 2007-09-17 05:10:00 That is a very good question with variety of answers. While searching for information about patents and plagiarism facts, one can come across to tenth of web pages of different countries, different prices and different conditions , with different obstacles about patents.The UK Intellectual Property Office provides following prices for: the process of the patent - GBP 200, a preliminary examination - GBP 30, a search - GBP 100, and a substantive examination - GBP 70. As for the Cornell University Law School provides the information about Patent Law.United States Patent and Trademark Office identifies following types of patents:Provisional Patent Application Non-provisional (Utility) Patent Application Filing Guide Design Patent Application Filing GuidePlant Patent ApplicationInternational Application It is easy to notice that all the procedures listed above is time consuming and a bit expensive, too, in comparison with the resolution of the problem provided by the Online-Witness. Th Read more:Protect
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War of the Consoles - What Can Sony Do? 2007-09-16 03:00:00 In business correct timing can draw a line between success and failure. Many products have failed because they were introduced early, when the market was not ready for it. Delays can have even more devastating effect on the product's future. In video gaming consoles market timing is even more critical. We are witnessing how Sony
PlayStation 3 is losing its battle to Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's XBox 360.A $50 price reduction has given a 63% sales boost to Microsoft. A $100 price reduction was required on PlayStation 3 for Sony to get the same effect. Sony's further actions may include introduction of a new 40 GB Playstation 3 at $399 and dropping the price of the 80 GB offer to $499. But will these measures be enough to stay competitive?In the video gaming market price is not the only vector. Availability of high quality titles is the most critical factor. This has more dramatic effect on success than having the best hardware. Nobody is impressed by superior hardware if adequate
Is This Your Name? 2007-09-15 06:02:00 Let me pose you a simple question. What will you get if you combine 60% entertainment, 35% "facts you never knew you didn't care about until now" and approximately 5% serendipitous connection to things directly related to you?Okay, let me give you one more hint. Dale Carnegie has said: "Remember that to him or her, a person´s name is the sweetest most important sound in any language.". I guess you are guessing what we are talking about. Yes, about our names. Did you know that you could so many things with your name? A couple of ideas. You can translate your name into different languages, for example into Latin. You could count vowels in your name. You could rhyme your name. Well, the possibilities are endless. But don't beat your brains. I'll show you a better way to get fun with your name.Here we go dear. Open up your browser (pardon, I guess you have already done so as long as you are reading this post) and visit http://www.isthisyour.name. Then simply, type in your first name
New Range of PC in Sahara 2007-09-15 05:11:00 Sahara Computers and Electronics Ltd. (SCEL) is the largest joint venture between Sahara India Pariwar (SIP) and Sahara Computers (Pty) Limited, South Africa (SSA) in India . It produces computers, laptops and peripherals.Sahara Computers were first launched in 1997. It is distributed globally and “covers both established and emerging markets. The company is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and is the official distributor and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) for a variety of top international vendors.” The new product that Sahara is going to launch is a new range of Sahara laptop and desktop computers.The laptop screen of 15.4” wide is based on the power of Intel Core Duo Processor. “Weighing about 2.46 kg, the other features included are built-in high definition audio, inbuilt wireless card, super multi DVD-RW, wireless, LAN, HDD Access, Quick start buttons, and power button. With 8-cell battery that has a life of 4 hours, it's available with 3-year warranty and immed Read more:Range
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McLaren Gets a $100 Million Fine and No Points in the Constructors' Championship 2007-09-14 08:07:00 $100 million in fines and 0 points in the 2007 season's constructors' championship is FIA World Motor Sport Council's final verdict for the McLaren-Mercedes team. McLaren-Mercedes drivers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton have not been penalized and are free to continue their fight for the drivers' title.We expect the FIA to explain the reasons behind the Council's decision today. This should be followed by McLaren's decision to appeal or not.On the Formula1.com website there is a poll about the verdict. It seems that the public opinion is divided evenly with a slight advantage to those who think that the decision was fair. I too believe that the decision was fair. I would be extremely disappointed if the verdict had affected McLaren drivers. Both Alonso and Hamilton should have a right to fight for the title. Ferrari is satisfied with McLaren verdict. No surprise here. Scuderia has practically secured the championship title in this year.Hopefully, the spy saga will be over and Read more:Points
IDLDPL Bluetooth Speakers 2007-09-14 05:56:00 India Digital Life Style Distributors Pvt. Ltd. whose mission is to provide the customers the products of high quality at competitive prices, good working conditions and prompt service with timely deliveries , launches its new, compact and portable Parrot Party Bluetooth
speaker system in 10 days. Its main new feature is that even if the system does not have Bluetooth it can get hold of the standard of RCA input. With this new system is it available to listen music for 4 hours. The parrot has two audio effects. The first one is “Stereo Widening broadens the music to fill a room; and the second effect - Virtual Super Bass - reinforces the bass frequencies, the company claims.”The most important feature Parrot Party Bluetooth speaker has is that there is no need for installing different software to send the play list to the Party Bluetooth speaker, it is able to stream device to Cell Phone, Personal Computer, CD players.Price of the product is not decided yet.IDLDPL proves that it se
Smart Choice- The Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor 2007-09-13 04:07:00 AMD - Advanced Micro Devices is the customer-centric innovation company. AMD gives the clients availability to make smart choice. It makes technology more accessible to the world, focuses on best meeting the needs of leading computing, wireless and consumer electronics companies to “deliver high-performance, energy-efficient and visually realistic solutions.”AMD introduced its new product-Quad
-Core Opteron processor
that promises a 50% increase in performance, virtualization, investment protection. As AMD’s official site claims the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor is “the industry’s first native x86 four core processor. It sets AMD apart as the innovation leader in the x86 server microprocessor market. ...Conceived and developed with a close eye on customer needs, the breakthrough Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor design and architecture gives server customers cutting-edge computing.”Hector Ruiz, chairman and chief executive officer says that they “worked closely with Read more:Smart
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Please Don't Ruin Formula One 2007-09-12 15:01:00 It looks like that in Formula
One the battle from the circuit has shifted towards the court rooms and FIA World Motor Sport Council summits.Tomorrow may prove to be a crucial day for the leading team. If the McLaren-Mercedes team is found guilty, not only does the team face multi-million dollar fee, but potential punishment includes disqualification from this season and from the next as well. Not a promising outlook for the British-German team.Unfortunately, some sources speculate that McLaren will drag other teams as well in the case and will require adequate sanctions against such teams. According to the sources, Flavio Briatore's team is the one that McLaren will try to drag into the case. But the Renault boss is calm and accuses his vis-a-vis at McLaren Ron Dennis of “throwing stones everywhere” in an attempt to deflect pressure. This might prove to be a good strategy for McLaren to shift attention from the main point but it might turn to be a critical decision as well.But wha Read more:Please
Yahoo Search - more result oriented and less time consuming 2007-10-03 03:34:00 Do You Want to find what you're looking for? Well, we all want that. The question is how one gets what he/she wants. In the world of highly developing technology, that opens the doors into the world of infinity that is easy but there is the danger to be lost in the thousands of web sites, blogs, and links.Each of the web sites in the world of infinity tries to make it comfortable to the user type the name of interested object and provide with the information that is more or less relevant to the customer. The leading sites try to improve the service, and not only. The site the worth of which is about $361,726,182.30, www.yahoo.com, is revamping its YahooSearch
platform.The technology that was introduced on October 1 has new features that make service more comfortable, and less time consuming. The new technology was built on the bases of its Panama search advertising platform. It will give the site opportunity to be more relevant for sponsored listings, will have greater speed and
Who Sings The Serenata? 2007-10-02 15:02:00 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Bang & Olufsen unveiled their latest joint music-mobile phone, Serenata, on Tuesday. The phone has already been dubbed as an iPhone killer. The Serenata, which does not look like as a phone at all, is very impressive. Let's look at the phone specifications.Designer: David LewisDimensions/Weight: 63x109, 5x19, 7 (mm) / 136 (g)Platform: GSM 900, 1900 and WCDMA 2100 (3G/UMTS)Battery capacity: 1,000 mAhTalk time/standby: Up to 3 hours / up to 280 hoursDisplay: 2.26" Color TFT-LCD, 240x240 pixelsBluetooth: Generic access, Headset, Hands Free, Audio Video Distribution, Audio Video Remote ControlUSB: Version 2.0Browser: WAPMessage: SMS, MMS, E-mailMemory: 4GB + 25MB system memoryMusic playback time: Up to 5 hours (speaker) / up to 13 hours (headset)Audio Codec: MP3, WMA, WMA Lossless 9.1 AACAccessories: Car holder, car chargerPC Software: BeoPlayer (Windows XP), Samsung PC Studio (Windows 2000, XP)Will Serenata become the iPhone killer? To be frank, I don
SCE Releases an Official PlayStation Portable Theme Creator 2007-10-02 07:36:00 Finally, an official tool for creating custom PlayStationPortable
(PSP) themes has been released.This means that soon it should be possible to get all kinds of themes for your gaming device. And of course you should be able to create your themes as well. The tool is easy to use and you can create your themes even if you are quite far from being a PhotoShop guru.The tool is in English and is available for an immediate download via the SCE Japan's website.Thank you Sony. This has been a nice surprise for all PSP owners and fans. Read more:Official
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Do You Want Concorde's Toilet Seat? 2007-10-01 16:05:00 ... or maybe a headset? What abut the whole engine or a wing? Seriously, no kidding.Maybe the supersonic jetliner, a wonder machine of Anglo-French minds, has not been flying since 2003, but its parts will "fly" to different parts of the world at no less speed than the aircraft used to fly (FYI, it was 2625 km per hour). You see, a French auction has started accepting bids on hundreds of the Concorde
components.60 pieces were sold on the auction's first day and the sales have attracted around five times the asking price. Prices are approximately in a 400 - 3,000 euro range. The funds raised from the auction will go to a museum. Most of the 20 built Concordes are in museums in London and Paris. Read more:Toilet
TV-sets Begin to Protest 2007-10-01 03:34:00 E-Revolutiona and Takara Tomy have decided to make a communication revolution introducing the mouthing-off TVs.The Segnity pocket television- 2.7-inch in diagonal- weighs 90 grams and works for three hours on four AAA batteries. Also, it can be operated by the USB port. The television is endowed with the ability to respond on actions of its owner. The device includes a number of modes, from “polite” to “ironic”. In its extreme variant, the tiny invention arrogantly comments on every attempt to change its settings, pronouncing “Noisy aren’t you” or “Not bright enough for you, eh?”. In a polite mode the small dictator leaves its dominance and acknowledges all of the owner’s wishes. However conservative TV-watchers still prefer their old deaf-and-dumb gadgets, fearing whether the will of protest can spread to other electronic equipment as well. References :www.newlaunches.com/archives/http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/index.php/digital_tokyo/articles/worlds_first_talk Read more:Protest
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