Articles by Mark Essig

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Point and Snoot: Introducing the Nose Mouse

At long last, the noses of computer users have a purpose beyond holding up eyeglasses and balancing spoons Thanks to a Canadian scientist, now you can use your nose to control your computer. Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has created the "Nouse," a contraction of "Nose as Mouse."

IBM Makes Speech Code Open Source

IBM today announced it is contributing proprietary voice-recognition software to two different open-source software groups The Apache Software Foundation will receive Reusable Dialog Components (RDCs), used for handling simple words for dates, times and locations. In addition, IBM is proposing a project at the Eclipse Foundation to donate markup ed...

Fed Bullish on Economy, Investors Have Doubts

The Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, to 1.5 percent, on Tuesday afternoon. That much was widely expected. The real news lay in the accompanying statement, in which the Fed strongly implied that it would continue to raise rates in coming months Although the report acknowledged that recent economic news indicates s...

Markets Await Fed Decision

Bargain hunters boosted the stock market slightly in morning trading Monday, but uncertainties about jobs data, interest rates, and oil prices kept prices in check A few economists predict that dismal jobs data released Friday will prompt the Federal Reserve to leave interest rates unchanged at 1.25 percent at its meeting Tuesday. Most, however, st...

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