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A Year Ago: Nationwide puts faith in biometrics
News Building society to test voice-recognition for telephone banking, with a possible rollout beginning in six months. This follows Nationwide's trial last year of eye recognition technology at ATM machines, which the company said was not commercially...
[September 29, 2000, 7:02]
Biometrics to catch 'fake' asylum seekers
News The government is set to use digital images and facial recognition technology when screening asylum seekers in the UK in an attempt to further clamp down on fraudulent applications. A pre-tender document seen by silicon.com said the Home Office is...
[May 23, 2003, 15:52]
Biometrics plug into Windows
News AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint-recognition sensors, announced on Monday that it had signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate software support for biometrics into the Windows operating system. Although fingerprint-recognition security packages...
[April 29, 2003, 10:55]
Intel talks up lip-reading software
News Intel has released software that lets computers read lips, a step forward that could lead to better voice recognition applications. The Audio Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) software tracks a speaker's face and mouth movements.
[April 29, 2003, 8:51]
Wanted: Software researchers in China
News Microsoft is on the lookout for research talent in China to focus on four core future technologies -- speech recognition and synthesis, digital pen, panoramic pictures and multimedia compression for wireless communications networks.
[May 10, 2002, 13:28]
BijiWriter for EPOC
Downloads Break free from your usual recognition software with BijiWriter for EPOC, a fascinating multilingual handwriting processor. Because it displays exactly what you've written rather than performing handwriting recognition (converting handwritten...
[July 26, 2009, 3:49]
PalmSource to ditch Graffiti
News PalmSource is turning over a new leaf for handwriting recognition, replacing its idiosyncratic software amid a growth in popularity for keyboards in the handheld industry and amid a continuing patent battle with Xerox.
[January 14, 2003, 8:03]
Privacy concerns continue to grow
News In a post-September 11 world, the technical opportunities for surveillance seem endless: national identification cards, face-recognition systems and video cameras on street corners. Many police departments are considering or already implementing...
[April 19, 2002, 12:52]
Microsoft Voice Command review
Reviews Not to be confused with a comprehensive speech-recognition program, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking, where the computer transcribes speech to text, Voice Command allows you to perform only basic tasks, such as launching programs and your next...
[November 9, 2004, 11:18]
Swedish Pack for CalliGrapher
Downloads OverviewThis product requires CalliGrapher 6.6 or later.Swedish Pack for CalliGrapher adds natural handwriting recognition for Swedish language to your Microsoft Windows-powered Pocket PC or Handheld PC.
[November 15, 2004, 7:00]
Speech Toggle
Downloads Speech Toggle is a very simple freeware menu extra for Mac OS X which enables you to easily toggle Apple's speech recognition (Speakable Items) on and off. The software prevents you from having to make a trip to the System Preferences every...
[February 2, 2007, 7:00]
Apple misses targets but rewards staff
News In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Apple said last year it awarded employees in its incentive bonus programme a "special recognition bonus" amounting to between 3 percent and 5 percent of their base salary, despite...
[March 25, 2003, 10:00]
Biometrics beyond borders
News The reliability of the technology has also created cause for concern, fingerprint and iris recognition technology have significant error rates and facial recognition is dependent upon lighting, position and expression, sparking fears that...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Prayer Times
Downloads The software comes with Arabic-Latin soft keyboard, in addition to an Arabic character handwriting recognition.Prayer Times has the following features:Includes prayer times for more than 400 cities in more than 90 countries.
[August 17, 2002, 8:00]
Low-key Pentium III makes debut
News Although some PC users quibbled about the lack of creativity in the announcement, Intel chose to continue using the Pentium brand name because of its wide recognition, said company officials in Santa Clara, California.
[January 12, 1999, 10:24]
Animal Match
Downloads Help your kids (even yourself) to improve their brain information recognition and recollection skills.Try to beat your highscores in Normal Mode or Time Attack. Develops information recognition, recollection, concentration and cognitive skills of...
[December 18, 2009, 23:19]
Arabizer
Downloads With IMAGiNET Pocket Arabizer, you can enter, edit and view Arabic data inside Microsoft applications, not only using an Arabic soft keyboard, but also using Arabic handwriting character recognition. Arabic handwriting recognition of numerals and...
[October 18, 2006, 15:33]
Loyalty R-Squared: Relationships and Rewards
White Papers Are they looking for relationships, rewards, recognition? Also, they will share new proprietary research which reveals just what consumers are looking for when it comes to rewards and recognition, how they are motivated and how rewards impact their...
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
Biometric Technologies: Security, Legal, and Policy Implications
White Papers Biometric technologies - such as iris recognition, hand geometry, finger recognition, facial recognition, and voice recognition - have substantial potential to improve national security by providing a means to identify and verify people in many...
[October 27, 2006, 3:47]
SpamFilter for Eudora
Downloads SpamFilter uses a state of the art Bayesian spam recognition engine to detect and eliminate spam. SpamFilter state of the art recognition engine has a precision of over 99% in detecting spam. SpamFilter for Eudora is an anti spam software plugin...
[May 10, 2005, 23:00]
