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Turning Augmented Reality Into an Open Standard
A research team at Georgia Tech hopes to make augmented reality on smart phones more useful by developing an open standard for it.
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A World Wide Web that Talks
Some 10,000 people worldwide use a version of the Web like no other: it is operated by voice over the telephone. Called the "Spoken Web," it is the result of...
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Extracting Business Ideas From It Logs
Many companies' IT infrastructure is automatically gathering a comprehensive picture of their whole business, in the form of everything from Web server and phone...
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Giving Hackers a Printed Invitation
At the Shmoocon conference, researchers demonstrated how hackers are using printers to infiltrate corporate computer networks. Printers are "totally integrated...
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'sms of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones
Low-end mobile phones are vulnerable to hackers using short message service (SMS) communications, according to research presented at a recent conference in Germany...
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The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta
How the inventor of the PalmPilot studied the workings of the human brain to help companies turn a deluge of data into business intelligence.
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Raising a Botnet in Captivity
Researchers created their own, imprisoned, network of zombie computers to better learn how to take down those at large on the Internet.
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Tracking Trick Shows the Web Where You Are
A new technique from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley could be used to target advertising to users' surroundings without their knowledge.
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Let Your Coaster Do the Talking
An interactive surface encourages conversation by letting coasters communicate.
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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Hackers Take the Kinect to New Levels
But achieving the Holy Grail—controlling a computer without touching it—proves more difficult.
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Your Next Wallet Is Calling
"Contactless" hardware lets phones and gadgets pay with a tap, but the coming plethora of apps that use it may confuse users.
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Computers Get Help from the Human Brain
Tapping into the processing power of the human brain could help computers with some tasks.
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Out of Many, One In-Box
Nokia is developing a universal in-box that collects messages and updates from different smartphone applications and organizes them in one location so users can...
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Cell-Phone Chips to the Rescue
Data centers, under greater demand than ever, are looking to low-power chips as a way to save money, but switching won't be easy.
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New Class of Malware Attacks Specific Chips
Computer scientists reveal malware that attacks specific processors rather than the operating system that runs on them.
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Watch Where You're Going
Businesses are quietly buying mobile-phone data to discover the paths that consumers take.
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