Microsoft confirmed that it plans to acquire Tellme, a privately held speech recognition vendor. The deal gives Microsoft functionality in Tellme's core competencies: voice-activated nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search. Founded in 1999, Tellme...
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Fresh off a social-networking buy, traditional media giant News Corp. may be looking to further extend its online reach and has reportedly moved to acquire search engine Blinkx, which has specialized in helping users find music, video and other media online. Neither company would comment, but severa...
Bidding to capture a piece of a potentially lucrative vertical area of search, Yahoo has launched a test of an audio search engine that gives users the ability to comb through some 50 million audio files, from audio blogs and other spoken word programs to downloadable songs and albums. The Yahoo Aud...
This has been a bad couple weeks for your country, Pakistan. Every day brings more bad news. The worst indication is the drop in confidence among broad segments of the business community in Pakistan earlier this month, particularly the tech sector, which has been growing at over 50 percent per year ...
Hoping to lay claim to search dominance in a fast-growing area, Blinkx has launched a tool that will search personal-radio-style podcasts and video blogs for certain content. Blinkx said its upgrades make podcasts and video blogs "fully searchable for the first time," and let users search thousands ...
Business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities, which handle non-voice work, are easier to manage than offshore call centers. This is because of the nature of the work itself as well as the human resource issues associated with call centers in emerging economies. Common types of BPO work are: E-mail ...
Nintendo and Sony took the stage with competing announcements at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Each game console maker detailed specs of a new portable gaming device, but the proposed gadgets differ in important ways. Nintendo said its dual-screen entrant in this mar...
I'm writing this article on my computer with a pen input tablet, forsaking the usual speed and ease of the keyboard to see how the other 14 percent lives. I'm referring to the 39.5 million Americans over age 5 with some kind of disability, acording to the 2000 U.S. census. When I broke a bone in my ...
In a move that will boost production of computer chips found in common consumer electronics equipment, the European Union regulatory board reportedly has approved a joint venture between Germany's Infineon Technologies, Motorola and Agere Systems. Each of those three companies will own one-third of ...
A few years ago, much content and many services could be had for free, even though the companies providing those services were not posting profits. But then the bills arrived, online advertising revenue dropped, and the free-content providers had to tighten their belts and look for other ways to ...
Officials from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and other government groups said Monday that they need to take more of a role in protecting cyberspace from outside attacks -- even though huge portions of the American economy are now operating on secure information networks held by the private...
Two new software products for connecting cars to the Internet are expected to help drivers navigate congested roads
As the next step toward a new Internet-based strategy, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) unveiled the test version of its latest "Office" software upgrade on Tuesday. The product is designed to serve as a bridge between the old Office productivity suite, which was designed for personal computers, and t...
Chip titan Intel Corp. will unveil two new lines of microprocessors this week, including the Pentium 4, the first major upgrade of the Pentium chip since 1995
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