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Measuring the galaxies, one centimetre at a time
Blog Frequency comb lasers produce lots of emissions at lots of frequencies -- if you look at the light output on a graph of frequency against power, it resembles a comb - but in this case, with exceptional stability and accuracy.
[June 13, 2007, 2:14]
Biometrics - conserns and answers
Blog Accuracy. Pretty high accuracy. First, I would like to distinguish biometric technologies that do not work or must not work. I mean both behavioral (keystroke dynamics, handwriting) and physical (voice, face and palm) recognition systems.
[December 14, 2008, 9:03]
Intel PR takes it on the chin
Blog Accuracy. It's important to you, so it's important to us. No detail is too small to count. So when we published the interview Intel chipmeister Pat Gelsinger gave us last week, we were stumped for an illustration.
[February 27, 2007, 20:44]
Avaya announces speech to text
Blog I can vouch for the reliability and accuracy of the service. Avaya has announced a new feature to convert voicemails to text and deliver these as email. The text conversion is powered by a company called SpinVox who joined Avaya as a development...
[November 18, 2008, 9:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It'll be free to use at a basic level, with increasing levels of accuracy available to those willing to pay. Thursday 14/7/2005 A couple of weeks ago, the European Commission and the European Space Agency signed a massive deal with a combination of...
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
Don't Waste on Data Quality
Blog Then there's also the currency of data, its accuracy, completeness, relevance and consistency. Data quality problems cost U.S.businesses more than $600 billion a year, according to The Data Warehousing Institute.
[October 15, 2008, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog We hit the Virgin Mobile party - all chocolate hearts and tapas - then on to the Orange bash, which is marked by a DJ and a green laser light show that homes in with disturbing accuracy on people's crotches.
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog On the other hand, Gugli was a randy, scheming so-and-so born into a wealthy and very well connected family — grandson of Andrew Jameson, who owned the eponymous Irish whiskey company — who used patents as weapons, preferred publicity over...
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
Opera, Blackadder and the surfer
Blog Historical accuracy is important in such things. We get a fair amount of marketing bumpf sent to us, but this one is.special. Opera, purveyors of fine browsers for PCs and handsets alike, seem to have decided to create their own version of an...
[June 3, 2008, 17:18]
Global stock exchanges enter ‘technology arms race’
Blog Essentially, they want to be able to identify the best time to buy and sell securities and thus determine the best trading trajectory for a given portfolio, but with pinpoint accuracy. I tend to shy away from customer stories with all the revulsion...
[November 27, 2009, 7:41]
Scumbag Alert: Tax Return Scam
Blog However, these scams have often fallen short by attempting to react with speed rather than accuracy. As you may have read in the press, fraudsters are targeting taxpayers with scam e-mails in the run up to the 31 January deadline for Self Assessment.
[March 17, 2009, 19:03]
Home Office denies prototype intercept database
Blog Phil Booth, national co-ordinator for No2ID, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that he doubted the accuracy of the Home Office statement, due to the age of the IMP. According to the Home Office, no prototype database has been built by either the Home Office...
[April 7, 2009, 17:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Then, an IBM research scientist reports today that by throwing the sound of someone typing into a neural network, he can detect which key is being pressed with around eighty percent accuracy. Monday 10/5/2004
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
Air Semiconductor gets snappy with GPS
Blog It trades accuracy against power consumption, actively and intelligently. Exciting GPS news from Air Semiconductor, a start-up hailing from Swindon. A group of old industry lags with a serious track record in GPS and radio chippery, Air has cooked...
[March 10, 2009, 12:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The accuracy of his predictions are in no way blunted by the minor point that nothing of the sort is happening or is likely to happen. Friday 28/05/2004 The Shadow Minister For Economic Affairs: a title straight out of Yes, Minister?
[May 28, 2004, 18:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's bad enough with the chuggers who cluster around Tower Hill tube with their clipboards and tabards, sensing with predatory accuracy when a passing journalist is too hung-over to put up a decent fight.
[June 17, 2005, 18:45]
Mobile business social network tools coming on BlackBerry
Blog Like the existing iPhone LinkedIn app it lets you browse your contacts or search for profiles of people you could connect to by keyword, which is apparently a third of all activity on the LinkedIn site; but it’s the first mobile app with the...
[November 11, 2009, 7:50]
Beer Review
Blog I'll return to this later, and within the limits of unformattable ASCII will strive for greater accuracy in the formulation. PR maven - a word I've always imagined describing a raven with a speech impediment - Andrew Smith has noticed my formula...
[November 2, 2006, 9:11]
Why "Real Time" Search misses the point of what makes social media powerful
Blog So at best Google has come back with worse than 40% accuracy on my request. As Google and Bing scrabble to lead the move towards Real Time Search, are they missing the point? I admit I've always had issues with search engines and the SEO/SEM...
[October 19, 2009, 10:44]
Hitting the exponential software growth curve hard
Blog NB for technical accuracy I recently had the chance to meet Quark CEO Ray Schiavone and he assured me this situation has been or is being fixed. Part and parcel of the software industry is the constant release of new versions of each vendor’s product.
[March 17, 2008, 14:39]
