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Microsoft Executive Sees Rise of Tablets, 'Room Computer'
Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "room computer"...
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Smartphones Seen as Eventual Target of Computer Virus Attacks
Northeastern University researchers say that smartphones will soon be targeted by viruses on a massive scale, but a study by the researchers could provide a way...
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Cloud Computing: Changing the Way We Work
Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing...
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Researchers Use Brain Interface to Post to Twitter
In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter — just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message,...
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Tools Enhance Real-World Apps: Call in the Tele-Shrink
European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. Intriguing...
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Smartphone Apps Capture 40% of ser Face Time
Up to 90 percent of smartphone users say they want computer-like functions, and close to 40 percent of aggregate face time is based on mobile Internet, games, multimedia...
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A Twitter-Based Graphing Tool
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Human-Computer Interaction Institute Ph.D. student Ian Li (pictured) has developed Grafitter, a Twitter-based program that lets...
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Researchers Add Emotional Context to Electronic Communication
Information and communications technology (ICT) is all about communication but it has never provided the semantic richness offered by the non-verbal cues that typically...
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The Mobile Future of the Keyboard
Touchscreen keyboards could stand some improvement before they become the norm in smartphones and make their way to desktop computers, gaming devices, and even...
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25 Highly Anticipated Open-Source Releases Coming This Year
The free and open source software community is hotly anticipating a large number of new releases this year, including an upgrade to Mozilla's Firefox browser that...
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The Best Computer Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future
The 2009 Computer-Human Interaction conference will feature a display that recalls interfaces from the past, shows the most modern interfaces available today, and...
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Virus-Built Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers led by professor Angela Belcher have developed batteries by genetically engineering viruses to build the...
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MIT Student Develops Wearable Interface That Relies on Hand Gestures
Dr. Pattie Maes, Director of the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab and Pranav Mistry (pictured), a graduate student within the same group, have developed...
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Sun Dial Mobile App Alerts Muslims to Prayer
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a mobile application known as Sun Dial, which alerts Muslim users when it's time to perform the...
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Vibrating Touch Screen Puts Braille at the Fingertips
Jussi Rantala of Finland's University of Tampere is working on a project that would allow the visually impaired to use touch-screen devices such as iPhones. Rantala's...
From ICT Results
Handsets Avert Radio Spectrum Saturation, Opportunistically
Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could...
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Nasa and Microsoft to Make niverse of Data Available to the Public
NASA and Microsoft recently announced plans to make planetary images and data accessible over the Internet as part of the Space Act Agreement. NASA and Microsoft...
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Multicores Seen Driving Next-Generation Mobile Phones
York University professor Neil Audsley is part of the pan-European Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications project, an effort to make the multi...
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Canadian Researchers Reveal How They Cracked Chinese Spy Scam
A 34-year-old student and part-time tech geek at Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies tried everything to track down a piece of malicious software that...
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