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Internet Approaches Addressing Limit
Experts say that the net's entire existing address space will be exhausted about a year after that date. A newer scheme is being rolled out but many firms and countries...
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Web Security Attack 'makes Silicon Chips More Reliable'
An attack on a widely used web security system could soon help make silicon chips more powerful and reliable.
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Facebook v Google for Web Control
Mark Zuckerberg will soon hit the ripe old age of 26. And despite his youth, he clearly possesses no fear as he sets his company's sights on trying to wrest control...
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Virus Publishes Web History of Victims on the Net
A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public Web site before demanding a fee for its removal.
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Why Machines Do Not Understand Human Speech
From the moment people are born, they learn to make associations and to understand words depending on the context of a sentence. This learning continues throughout...
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Glonass: Has Russia's Sat-Nav System Come of Age?
With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming...
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Mobile Phone Allows Boss to Snoop
KDDI Corp. has developed mobile phone technology that detects even the tiniest actions of the user by analyzing the movement of accelerometers embedded in the devices...
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Mobile Phones Learn to Lip Read
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology professor Tanja Shultz demonstrated a prototype device for communicating without speaking at the recent CeBIT conference.
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Sat-Nav Systems nder Growing Threat from 'jammers'
Technology that depends on satellite-navigation signals is increasingly threatened by attack from widely available equipment, experts say. While "jamming" sat-nav...
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Tim Berners-Lee nveils Government Data Project
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled a new venture for the U.K. government, a Web site at http://data.gov.uk designed to provide the public with better access to official...
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Digital Cloud Plan For City Skies
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. The construction...
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'time Telescope' Could Boost Web
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...
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Google Invites sers to Join Wave
Google developers Lars and Jens Rasmussen have released a limited preview of an open source messenger called Wave. Users must be invited to test the application...
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Smart Sensors Power Interaction
More than 70 demonstrations of interactive technologies that use sensors for a wide range of applications were showcased at the Human Computer Interaction conference's...
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Quantum Computer Slips Onto Chips
A silicon chip about the size of a penny that uses photons to run Shor's algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Bristol in the...
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Mobile Data Show Friend Networks
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy by studying cellphone call records...
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Computer 'agents' Take to the Web
Artificial intelligence agents that automatically negotiate for online shoppers, called Negotiation Ninjas, will be tested on a shopping Web site called Aroxo this...
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Barcode Replacement Shown Off
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed Bokodes, a new barcode format that could replace the current barcodes used on retail products...
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When Employers Become Watchers
Imagine if today at work you were watched for every single minute. Not just when you arrived and left, or when you went for your lunch. But every task, every conversation...
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