Forbes This story is not a prophesy. It is not a prediction. Nor is it a prescriptive. This story is a warning. Reality is changing. Cheap, widely distributed bandwidth and advanced networking technologies are divorcing an ever-growing segment of the population from traditionally “real” constraints like geography and socio-economic status. At work, your closest colleagues [...]

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 [...]

Web Wire In the future, drivers will be able to conveniently retrieve information from the Internet using “natural language.” This has been made possible by a new technology that automatically generates voice applications from Internet information and transmits it to the vehicle via radio signals. It’s just not your day. You drive by several low-priced [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Web Wire Vizrt Ltd. announced today that two broadcasters belonging to the CME group (Central European Media Enterprises) each bought 3-camera virtual set systems totalling over USD 700,000 of Q1 revenues, thereby significantly increasing their Vizrt graphics installations. Vizrt is the world’s leading provider of HD/SD real-time 2D and true 3D broadcast graphics. The company’s [...]

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 [...]