While touch screen technology has become increasingly popular among smartphone users, the sleek screens have proved to be an obstruction for blind users, who rely on tangible clues to feel their way around. A pair of engineers at Google has been working diligently to resolve this issue, Charles Chen and T.V. Raman (who is himself [...]
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Google’s T-Mobile G1 Smartphone adapts to the blind
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Former Yahoo executives absorb rival spots
Monday, February 9th, 2009It has become a pastime these days to watch where former Yahoo execs are ending up. With the new leadership of Carol Bartz as Chief Executive, Yahoo is in transition. During this transition, several ex-Yahoo execs are scoring important roles at rival companies, a surprising trend in the internet and online advertising industry. The latest [...]
Read MoreCarol Bartz named Chief Executive of Yahoo
Monday, January 19th, 2009On Tuesday, Carol Bartz debuted as the successor to Yahoo’s Chief Executive Jerry Yang.Murmers among the masses are that Yahoo’s leadership style will become more dominant under the succinct “no no-nonsense” leadership style of Ms. Bartz. This style of dominant leadership will come in sharp contrast to the soft-spoken style of Jerry Yang. Ms. Bartz [...]
Read MoreAnatomy of a search engine
Friday, December 12th, 2008A search engine is essentially a tool whose performance level is dependent upon the amount of information it has the capacity to accumulate and draw from. For this reason, while the World Wide Web would appear to be free, it is actually exchanging its service for little bits of information that are useful to businesses [...]
Read MoreIntelligent Business Machines?
Monday, November 24th, 2008Five universities and I.B.M Research have received a $4.9 million dollar grant from the government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for a long-term venture in cognitive computing. Cognitive computing is an engineering field that is just on the outer edge of artificial intelligence. Participants hope to engineer the mind by reverse engineering the brain, according [...]
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