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Monthly Archives: mei 2002

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Slashdot: Take a look at this project from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)! This time the boys are trying to hammer out a portable, two-way, real-time, multi-lingual audible speech translator proposed to be run on everything from PDA’s to wearable military hardware to workstations.

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Wired: For close to a year, SirCam was the virus most likely to turn up in your e-mail box. But representatives from a half-dozen antivirus firms now believe that “Klez.H” is the most pervasive e-mail virus in cyberhistory, estimating that it has infected hundreds of thousands of computers within hours of first being spotted in [...]

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Internet News: RealNames Corp., a pioneering provider of an alternative to the domain-name system, said it would shut down, pinning the blame on Microsoft for declining to renew a key contract with the company. Keith Teare’s weblog: RealNames CEO Teare said there are two reasons Microsoft chose not to renew this relationship, effectively ending the [...]

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New Scientist: Passengers on packed trains could unwittingly be exposed to electromagnetic fields far higher than those recommended under international guidelines. The problem? Hordes of commuters all using their mobile phones at the same time. New York Times: Forget all about old-fashioned consumer surveys or even focus groups. The hot new technique in exploring your [...]