Wired
Developed by the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, the Tactical Language Training Program is different from interactive language programs of the past, which focus solely on spoken language. In Tactical Iraqi, players navigate a set of real-life scenarios by learning a set of Arabic phrases, culturally relevant gestures and taboos. Other titles include [...]

Federal Computer Week
An open-standards group has created a framework that could facilitate the global exchange of information among organizations. The naming system could benefit a wide range of disciplines, from disaster response to medical research.
The Open Group’s Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) has the potential to hasten information exchange by indexing the world’s datasets — [...]

CNET News.com
When it comes to watching television, it seems bigger is always better.
So why settle for a pipsqueak 50-inch plasma television or one of those modestly sized 65-inch rear-projection TVs when you can get something truly gigantic?
A growing number of consumers are taking a look at front-projection video systems, units that transmit an image onto [...]

Wired
Bigger. Wider. Flatter. That’s the vision of tomorrow’s entertainment. And if you’ve already got a new high-definition flat-panel TV, you know exactly what we’re talking about.
But HD flat-panels aren’t just a bleeding-edge luxury anymore. They’re about to become the household standard. While today’s entertainment networks offer only a handful of high-def programs, the number of [...]

By Theo Kanter, Claes Frisk and Henrik Gustafsson
Abstract
Personal Communication with mixed voice and data can be offered as a very rich set of applications, which can be rapidly introduced at low cost. Wireless and positioning technologies in combination with Internet’s demonstrated capability to integrate voice and data are further leveraged by the use of software [...]

W3C
The Web was designed as an information space, with the goal that it should be useful not only for human-human communication, but also that machines would be able to participate and help. One of the major obstacles to this has been the fact that most information on the Web is designed for human consumption, and [...]

Government Computer News
Many think the Internet is mainstream now, but that’s only true for nonpaying use, such as surfing for free information. As of 2003, commercial operations involving monetary exchange were limited to about 23% for broadband, 10% for e-tailing, 12% for B2B, 10% for distance learning, and 5% for music. And these are the [...]

CNET News.com
Wireless Internet service providers would be allowed to operate freely on new chunks of unused TV spectrum, according to two new bills in the U.S. Senate.
A pair of similar measures introduced Friday would give wireless device manufacturers the green light to develop products for unlicensed use on the broadband airwaves’ “white spaces”–that is, empty, [...]

Pew Internet & American Life Project
A decade after browsers came into popular use, the Internet has reached into–and, in some cases, reshaped–just about every important realm of modern life. It has changed the way we inform ourselves, amuse ourselves, care for ourselves, educate ourselves, work, shop, bank, pray and stay in touch.
This entry is the [...]