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My Favorite
Buzzword:
Get ready for the
Wireless MAN, baby. Or short for
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network.
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All About The MAN
Spam Overload Dept:
According
to a recent survey, about 65 percent of Net users spend 10 minutes
or more a day dealing with spam. About 37 percent of respondents get
100 junk messages a day, and 63 percent get 50 or more.
Source:
Symantec and Insightexpress
Tech
Essentials:
Ben Sullivan's
Tech Blog
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Beta News
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Alice & Bill.com|
Everything
Burns |
CNET
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News.com
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NY Times
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SiliconValley
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Slashdot
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The Register
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Tom's Hardware
|Walt Mossberg
Business Magazines:
Business 2.0
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Business Week
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CFO
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Economist
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Fast Company
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Forbes
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Fortune
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Inc.
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Newsweek
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Red Herring
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Smart Money
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Time
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US News
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Wired
 Syndicate
my Site
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Alice Hill's Technology
Watch
Friday, March 05, 2004
It's Robo Translator
 Major Breakthrough Department: NEC has just launched the first successful speech-to-speech translation robot called Papero. Developed as a new high-tech visiting tourist feature in Tokyo's Narita airport, the little robot can instantly decipher a sentence in English or Japanese and then translate it on the fly. Better still, the robot is the first of its kind to handle over 50,000 Japanese and 25,000 English words, including slang and colloquialisms, all spoken naturally by the user without any prior voice training and identification process.
The technology is expected to hit PDAs soon, and will hopefully end the brutal agony of sneering French waiters as you accidentally order squid eyes from the menu.
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