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Many an intergalactic sci-fi flick has showcased the "instant translator" -- the clever box that makes earthling speech intelligible to alpha-centaurians, and vice versa. Now something similar is helping Australian organizations bring legacy applications and enterprise knowledge up to date. Perhaps ...
Two new standards approved this week by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are poised to provide consumers with content more appropriate for their needs, enabling computers to locate relevant information on the Internet more quickly than was ever possible before. The consortium disclosed Tuesday th...
Computing is moving out of the office and heading for the living room, the coat pocket and the car. In a convergence with traditional home entertainment, computing and telecommunications technologies are starting to weave together a pervasive mix of "lifestyle" products and services. In the near fut...
It may already be the de facto voice platform for the Internet, but this week the Voice XML 2.0 specification has moved closer to becoming an official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. The W3C, the body responsible for maintaining many of the core standards and protocols at the heart of the ...
While Apple may have lost the operating system battle to Microsoft, it has become a major player in the digital music market, thanks to the company's successful iPod player and iTunes online music store. However, Microsoft has managed to make its Windows Media Audio (WMA) music format the standard o...
At this time of year in the United States we have a tradition: It is called Super Bowl Sunday. In this annual tradition, we spend prodigious sums of money to have an extremely large TV installed in our homes, have lots of friends over to watch a bunch of guys run up and down a big lawn, and then fai...
Because of his background in assembly-level programming and low-level C coding on machines with slow CPUs and very little RAM, David Wren, PassMark Software's founder, had a strong interest in coding efficiency and computer performance. It was from this interest that PassMark's benchmark application...
Linux is irritating Microsoft, and the software giant isn't going to take it anymore. On Monday, the maker of the Windows operating system launched what it says will be a prolonged advertising campaign to "get the facts" before the IT community about the cost benefits of its OS over its open-source ...
Distributing software for sharing files on the Internet is legal even if the application is being used for illegal activity, the Supreme Court of The Netherlands has ruled. In upholding a lower court ruling, the high court found that Sharman Networks, maker of the Kazaa file-sharing application, did...
Those wanting to represent the Internet graphically to a lay audience are fond of animations showing a spinning Earth criss-crossed by a network of buzzing, vibrating lines. Lift those animations up from the planet a bit, and you get a picture of what space someday could become -- a place where comm...
After recently building a new system with one of the latest Nvidia cards powering the graphics, I poked around Nvidia's demos to see if I could push the new card to its limits. After installing a few of the demos designed to showcase Nvidia power, I was blown away. In the interest of hearing from th...
IBM claims it has found a way to apply nanotechnology -- a field of study in which researchers have manipulated materials at dimensions approaching the size of individual molecules -- to producing semiconductor components with existing chip-making tools. Big Blue researchers, who will present their ...
IBM hopes to hit it big with its new Business Integration Game (BIG) technology, which is a software system designed to throw third-party e-commerce and communication into the latest online role-playing and multiplayer video games. The BIG framework, which uses open standards such as SOAP and J2EE, ...
Intel has revealed plans to extend the number of transistors the company can put on chips with existing equipment. The next-generation technique includes a 65-nanometer process that the company said will help develop more capable processors and larger, more cost-effective 300-nanometer wafers, which...
Continuing to dispel uncertainty over its dedication to open source, software maker Novell has released a road map for the Mono development project -- an open-source effort to write Linux and Unix applications for Microsoft's .NET framework. Novell -- which purchased Linux desktop maker Ximian last ...
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