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Microsoft spin-off debuts 'snack-sized' browsing
News The company is also keen to highlight what it calls its "novel zooming user interface (ZUI)", apparently the product of years of research into human-computer interaction by Zumobi's co-founder, Dr Ben Bederson.
[November 13, 2007, 15:24]
Google.org awards disease-prevention grants
News Children's Hospital Corporation supporting HealthMap and ProMED-mail received a $3m multi-year grant to combine HealthMap's digital detection efforts with ProMED-mail's global network of human, animal and ecosystem health specialists.
[October 22, 2008, 12:18]
EU lacks common ID privacy specs, says agency
News The fundamental human right to privacy must be guaranteed for all European eID card holders," said Pirotti. That lack has hindered the development of interoperability standards that would let each country's authorities work with the electronic...
[February 5, 2009, 17:04]
Singapore's tech skills for 2003
News The situation requires some caution.as such, most human resource planning, assessments and reviews for headcount are now being carried out on a quarterly basis rather than an annual basis (as) previously," he added.
[January 8, 2003, 11:17]
Nationwide puts faith in biometrics
News Although Richard Wendland, Durlacher telecoms analyst, welcomed the trial, he did not believe that this technology would ever replace human operators. Ex-super-hacker Mathew Bevan pointed out that although voice-recognition technology has been in...
[September 29, 1999, 17:12]
Imperial College develops 'self diagnosis' chip
News There will also be implications for the genome project which is attempting to map the DNA of a human being. A Centre for Integrated Genetic and Microchemical Analysis is to be set up at Imperial College to continue research and development of the...
[January 29, 1999, 12:24]
What the Dormouse Said review
Reviews This was Vannevar Bush’s 'As We May Think', published in The Atlantic Monthly (and still available online in its entirety), which imagined an interconnected computing device that made human knowledge accessible.
[May 3, 2006, 7:55]
Leeds cuts storage energy costs by 75 percent
News The new equipment supports services including the city's Contact Leeds contact centre, council tax and benefits, housing, social services, the website and internal systems such as human resources. Two of the arrays are used in production — one in...
[February 29, 2008, 15:24]
A Year Ago: Nationwide puts faith in biometrics
News Although Richard Wendland, Durlacher telecoms analyst, welcomed the trial, he did not believe that this technology would ever replace human operators. Ex-super-hacker Mathew Bevan pointed out that although voice-recognition technology has been in...
[September 29, 2000, 7:02]
The software developer's interview (Part Two)
News Every candidate will spend a minimum of three hours in interviews (two with interviewers plus one with a human resources manager), and the system doesn't work if the candidate is in a rush. The goal is to find out how the candidate solves problems...
[May 16, 2002, 17:08]
Home Office advisor urges biometrics testing
News Rejman-Greene also criticised the US-VISIT capture process in some airports, saying that it is not intuitive, and relies on too much human intervention to make it work. However, Marek Rejman-Greene, a senior biometrics advisor for the Home Office's...
[October 20, 2006, 13:50]
Group endorses bigger Web ads
News Industries including human resources, computers and office equipment, publishing and retail have shifted a greater portion of their advertising dollars to the Internet in the last year. By promoting a uniform set of on-the-page ad sizes, the IAB...
[December 12, 2002, 7:10]
Comdex: It's alive! Biometrics do security
News The first, SAFLink's SAFtyLatch uses the US government-developed Human Authentication application programming interface (HA-API) to enable it to work with more than one biometrics device. According to Tom Yerex of research and development, the idea...
[November 19, 1998, 5:05]
Dr. IBM prescribes Blue Gene to hunt down HIV
Blog IBM’s project is focused on how the human HIV-1 virus attaches to cells in the body and injects its genetic material. Now I’m no medical specialist, but if I had time to daydream development dilemmas a little more I think I could see how...
[April 3, 2008, 15:33]
Activists unveil stealth browser
News Hacktivismo, a well-known group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts, this week officially released a Firefox-based browser designed to allow anonymous Web surfing. The official launch follows more than a year of development work...
[September 22, 2006, 17:00]
The $100 laptop - don't get carried away
Talkback The technology may be difficult to produce at the price quoted but even more important is the human side of things. Before you flame me, I am not anti development, I am not anti low technology design, it just needs people to go out to where the...
[November 20, 2005, 10:51]
Concerns raised over plans for global wiretap
News The Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) has been criticised for breaching human rights. We believe that such a development would harm network security, result in more illegal activities, diminish users' privacy, stifle innovation, and impose...
[November 11, 1999, 10:22]
Red Hat wins over Windows convert
News The system is replacing Windows servers for running human resources and manufacturing databases, Red Hat and Acuity said on Thursday at the OracleWorld conference (formerly known as Oracle OpenWorld) in San Francisco.
[November 15, 2002, 9:08]
Oracle judgement spells bad news
Leader The Department of Justice had tried to prove that the merger of Oracle and PeopleSoft would damage competition in the market for what PeopleSoft called 'high-function' financial and human resources ERP applications.
[September 10, 2004, 12:25]
Voice vibration could recharge mobile phones
News A human hair, by contrast, is about 100,000nm wide. Products under development include a dance-powered iPod charger that could be worn on an arm, and M2E Power is building motion-powered gadget chargers that could come to market in 2009.
[December 4, 2008, 12:04]
