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US Court Backs Right To Free Speech On Web
News A federal judge in Seattle has ruled in favour of upholding the right to speak anonymously on the Web, marking victory for those seeking to protect online speech from legal dragnets. In a brief filed in a separate John Doe case, AOL argued that...
[April 23, 2001, 9:41]
Web Speech Effort Gets New Voice
News Microsoft is making a double-barrelled effort to trigger new action on a flagging Web speech specification. The demonstrations, available from Microsoft's Web site, show how Microsoft's speech technologies group.
[April 2, 2003, 15:49]
W3C Readies Computer-interaction Specs
News The approval stands as the latest step in the establishment of the W3C's Speech Interface Framework, which the group hopes will enable more people to use Web-based services by using any phone's key pads, speaking commands into a phone or using...
[March 17, 2004, 10:20]
Net-porn Filtering Hit With Lawsuits
News Given the dynamic nature of Internet speech and the inherent limitations of available filtering technology, it is both practically and legally impossible to comply with this mandate," the ALA suit says.
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
Why AOL Wants Developers To Put Passion Over Profit
News ZDNet.co.uk spoke to Aoki just after his speech, to talk about the impact web applications have had in the enterprise and what trends are emerging. In his speech, Aoki urged developers to create applications out of passion and for the community...
[October 10, 2008, 16:51]
Australian Site Told To Remove Racial Content
News In public discourse there is a need to balance rights and responsibilities, for example, balancing the right to freedom of speech and political communication with the right to freedom from racial vilification.
[October 10, 2000, 9:14]
Ellison Slates Computers And Pushes Biotech
News The high-profile chief executive of Oracle played fortune teller during his keynote speech at the Oracle AppsWorld 2001 conference in New Orleans when asked what he'd want to do if he hadn't gone into technology.
[February 22, 2001, 9:19]
Google Set To Woo Non-Internet Users With Voice Search
News Silverstein said speech-based searching presented a real problem but not because of the recognition technology. An embryonic version of the speech search is already available on the Google Labs Web site, where the company lets Web users play with...
[March 24, 2004, 13:10]
Flash Heads For Next Frontier
News Apple's director of QuickTime marketing, Frank Casanova, followed Burgess at Flashforward 2000 with a speech that focused on Apple's QuickTime multimedia technology. Macromedia chairman and CEO Rob Burgess set the tone at this week's...
[March 29, 2000, 10:18]
Mozilla Warns Of Flash And Silverlight 'agenda'
News Talking to ZDNet.co.uk after his speech, Nitot said he had "nothing against Adobe". ZDNet.co.uk approached Microsoft and Adobe for comment on Nitot's speech but neither had responded at the time of writing.
[April 30, 2008, 11:51]
HP Takes Merger Into A New Year
News Peter Blackmore said in a speech last September that IT integration has been the toughest challenge of the merger process, with the "longest tail" of any of the animals the merged company has been faced with taming.
[November 1, 2002, 16:18]
Microsoft Plans Web Software Push
News Dr George Carlo, an epidemiologist who researched mobile phones in the 1990s, will give a speech titled Combating the dangers of wireless technology. Last year, many ZDNet UK readers took issue with claims that Wi-Fi was damaging people's health...
[February 19, 2007, 15:16]
Freedom Of Speech V The Will To Protect Children
News In America the debate between free speech advocates and the bible belters has long raged around the issue of pornography and censorship. Whilst admitting the bill has become a free speech issue, Peterson believes it has been misinterpreted.
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
Oracle Releases Database For Itanium
News During Barrett's speech, Oracle executives demonstrated forthcoming unified messaging features built into the Oracle 9i application server. During a keynote speech at OpenWorld on Monday afternoon, Intel chief executive Craig Barrett trumpeted the...
[December 4, 2001, 9:34]
Gates Keynote Emphasises Security
News In keeping with the toned-down nature of this year's Comdex, Gates' speech was less about gee-whiz technology than in previous years. In conjunction with Gates' speech, Microsoft is showing off a handful of new products, including a new version of...
[November 17, 2003, 8:25]
BETT '99: Snippets From The Show
News BETSIE, or the BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer is a new software initiative that will allow improved Internet navigation. The software works on a text-to-speech basis, standardising screen space and speeding up Internet access and...
[January 15, 1999, 12:05]
BETT '99: Snippets From The Show
News BETSIE, or the BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer is a new software initiative that will allow improved Internet navigation. The software works on a text-to-speech basis, standardising screen space and speeding up Internet access and...
[January 15, 1999, 12:05]
Samba 4 Enters Public Testing
News The new version of the software was released on Wednesday in conjunction with a speech on the subject by Samba creator Andrew Tridgell — generally known as Tridge — at Linux.conf.au in New Zealand. One Linux enthusiast who saw Tridgell's Linux.conf...
[January 26, 2006, 9:50]
Glimpses Into Future Windows
News Gates made the announcements during his keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) here. Officials also said not to expect Microsoft to provide any speech capabilities beyond its speech application programming...
[July 13, 2000, 8:45]
MS Plumbing: The Next Generation
News Instead of a world where Internet users are limited to reading information, largely one screen at a time, the Phase 3 Internet will unite multiple Web sites running on any device, and allow users to read, write and annotate them via speech...
[June 6, 2000, 9:36]
