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Apple syncs its VoiceOver accessibility technology to iPod Shuffle

Apple syncs its VoiceOver accessibility technology to iPod ShuffleSome clarificationThe article and Apple's quoted marketing material, make Voiceover appear to be brand new. That is incorrect. Apple's has used such technology for many years.The ability to read docs aloud was came with Mac OS 7X (could have been...

Tags: Media players, Digital music, Digital media, Desktops, Voice-over, Apple Inc., VoiceOver, VoiceOver accessibility technology, accessibility technology, Apple iPod Shuffle, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

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Intel e-reader combines Atom processor and accessibility

Intel announced an innovative e-reader today that wants nothing to do with being a Kindle-killer. This e-reader, in fact, arguably has more educational implications than the current generation of e-readers. Intel's product, demonstrated below, is designed to turn written text into spoken words and can convert either text...

Tags: E-reader, Processor, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Google Wave: Begging for a classrom

Using Wave to interconnect academic institutionsI think, the first large-scale Wave deployment should be used to interconnect all academic institutions around the world.This would be attractive because:1. younger generations are very adaptable, to new technology.2. there is a great deal of collaboration, in the academic world.3. technical glitches are likely...

Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Google Inc., classrom, IRC

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Life In The Vast Plane...

Why is it that laptops and the internet have been around for a generation and yet the infrastructure we live in still doesn't support them? I'm talking primarily about travel. A vast portion of the working population are regularly on the move, particularly flying, for face...

Tags: Professional Services, Jet, Laptop Computer, Economy Class, Corporate Governance, Internet, Wireless LANs, TVs, Aerospace & Defense, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial

I'm having issues with VirtualBox . . .I'm having issues with VirtualBox: Even though it worked before, lately it's claiming that "VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational" and not allowing me to run 64 bit Ubuntu :(.RE: Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast MarsupialI had some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Win 7, Ext4, Karmic Koala

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

A Performance Study of Reactive Multicast Routing Protocols in Virtual Class Room Using Mobile Ad Hoc Network

A great deal of excitement has recently propelled Mobile Learning to the forefront of educational technology. The exponential growth of mobile technology in the recent years, increase in the availability of high-bandwidth network, advances in wireless technologies and popularity of handheld devices, have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education....

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Routing Protocol, Science Publications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-09-29

The American Textbook Accessibility Act

The American Textbook Accessibility ActChris, you're dreamingThe only way this is going to get a Federal charter is if someone with enough muscle gets to skim rents.None of the players have enough concentrated political pull to overcome the others who would gang up to block the monopoly play, so it's...

Tags: Vertical industries, American Textbook Accessibility Act, government

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

The American Textbook Accessibility Act

Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...

Tags: Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Government, E-books, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), XML, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

Kindle draws fire at Arizona StateRidiculous liberalismHas any blind student even indicated an interest in the course? Has the school offered to provide braille copies or text-to-speech technology? This sounds like a non-problem that people are trying to turn into a problem to advocate a misguided political agenda. When I...

Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Arizona State, Americans with Disabilities Act

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...

Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

CRM failures on tap

CRM failures on tapDifferentiated failuresGlad to see you'll be addressing CRM in your blog, Michael. Between you and Paul G, it looks like the industry is going to get a fair shake.It will be interesting to see how you approach the topic of failures. On the one hand, many sources...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, CRM, CRM failure

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

Some important truths about pen-testing

Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks” of their own, or others’ technologies to test...

Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-20

IBM to invest $100 million in mobile research

IBM on Wednesday announced plans for a $100 million investment over the next five years into a major mobile research effort to create technology to bring services to people who have bypassed PCs for mobile phones as their primary method of accessing the Internet. There are three...

Tags: Mobile, IBM Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-18

WWDC 2009 live

It's that time again: the annual Apple World Wide Developer's Conference and its highly anticipated keynote address. Phil Schiller ran the show this year, and while he's no Steve Jobs most observers agree that he did a pretty good job. Highlights include a revamping of the MacBook Pro line, the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Video, Scott Forstall, iPhone OS 3.0, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Panasonic reveals world's first portable Blu-ray player

Panasonic has announced that its DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray player, the world's first such portable player, will be shipping this month for the princely sum of $800. The DMP-B15 will provide about 2.5 hours of Blu-ray movie goodness per charge on an 8.9-in. WSVGA...

Tags: Panasonic, Player, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Solving the Fax-to-Order Problem

View this on-demand webinar and learn about a way to capture up to 100% of fax orders electronically, get those orders into your ERP system automatically and cut processing costs by as much as 70%. You'll see technology that enables businesses to: Make every customer an "e-customer"...

Tags: Archiving, Esker S.A., Fax, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-05-01

Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?

Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake?The cloud is many steps backward...The loss of control over your applications, data, security, accessibility, accountability, and much more is seriously many many steps backward from where we are now. The cloud has very limited usefulness for very specific applications and the hype over...

Tags: Service level management, Intellectual property, SECURITY, cloud system, money-losing mistake

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Voice recognition a solution for medical luddism

Voice recognition a solution for medical luddismWonder ware that wentVery little (none?) accessibility co's at FOSE this year, except Adobe CS4 with their partner (sales - "we can no longer believe what we see. for example in John Adams"). Makes me curious sir, curious sir."Doctors don?t like keyboards."Actually it's...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, HEALTHCARE, Brute-Force, Adams, voice recognition, medical luddism, luddism, health care

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?

Segway and GM on Tuesday will announce a project dubbed P.U.M.A., which stands for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, that aims to create two-wheeled car replacements for cities. These P.U.M.A. transporters would carry two passengers and reach speeds between 25 mph and 35 mph.  Is this the...

Tags: Segway, General Motors Corp., P.U.M.A., Transportation, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power

Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard powerMehKeystrokes make noises. The frequency spectrum of each key on the keyboard is unique. Lasers have been used to detect sound for decades. So, using a laser to sniff keystrokes is the obvious next step. I'm sure this practice is...

Tags: Keyboards, laser, government facility, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-03-20