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Talking Calculator 1.4.1 (Windows)

Talking Calculator is designed to be a simple, easy to use calculator, much like a desk calculator which you use everyday for simple calculations, from totting up expenses to converting miles to kilometers. Being on your PC however, you can benefit from many improvements such as a history list and...

Tags: Voice Recognition, Judge, Microsoft Windows, Talking Calculator, Telephony, Telecommunications, Keyboards, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-11-05

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Talking Dictionary 9.9 (Windows)

Talking Dictionary is a speech enabled 250,000 word English dictionary and thesaurus. Like all the talking software products on this site, Talking Dictionary has been designed for use by the non sighted person. All of the controls are easily remembered keyboard shortcuts and it is a very fast and easy...

Tags: RWF Talking Software, Talking Dictionary, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 95, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-13

iPhone app review: Mantis Bible Study

boo!if i wanted religion, i would have gone to my nearest parish. cmon zdnet, this is a business tech site, not jesus's facebookWhy is software excluded from'tech' just because it happens to be for religious purposes? Are you saying that software made by, dare I say it, religious people...

Tags: Bible

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Home Buying Payment Calculator 9.0 (Windows)

Can You Afford Your Dream Home? Find Out today. After purchasing my first home at a young age, and working in the real estate industry, I found out that many people have no idea what price range to look at when buying a home. Since I was already a computer...

Tags: Payment, Microsoft Windows, Home, NewTrend Software, Operational Accounting, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-04

Apple App Store apps top 2 billion; that's 6.6 million downloads per day

amazed with so much crap out therethis is not just for the iPhone, but the iTouch also for those kids who can afford any game, but not a monthly cellphone bill.When will ZDNet jump on the wagon?Where are you guys? Why no ZDNet app? You guys are supposed...

Tags: Smart phones, Zune HD, Apple Inc., Apple App Store app, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Talking Calculator (iPhone) 1.1 (Mobile)

Talking Calculator iPhone is useful for visually impaired or for anyone who wants to verify accuracy without looking back at the screen. Also it is a wonderful educational app for children who are learning math because it gives them audible reinforcement for what they press and what they see on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-03

Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, too

Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, tooWhy is MS doing this??Why are they backing down? MS did exactly what Opera asked for and wanted:"Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft?s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to...

Tags: computer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Opera Software ASA, operating system, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Overcoming the laptop wall

Overcoming the laptop wallSeems fairly simpleIn my opinion, either:Construct the firewall and proxy services of the university properly so that the wireless network that students can connect to is tightly limited on what websites they can access, or potentially only the intranet. Only allow full inet access to hard wired...

Tags: Firewalls, Notebooks, Web technology, laptop wall, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Samsung Tint (MetroPCS)

Photo gallery:Samsung TintThough Samsung makes plenty of high-end phones, many of its handsets in the United States are basic to midrange models. For example, take Metro PCS's new Samsung Tint. Inside its basic flip design you won't find much beyond a VGA camera, Bluetooth, and voice commands. The replaceable covers...

Tags: VGA Camera, Samsung Tint, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-05-11

Google: Looking over shoulder at Wolfram|Alpha?

Google: Looking over shoulder at Wolfram|Alpha?Google and Wolfram AlphaI don't think they are actually in the same field to be competitors. I think if Google is talking about/looking at Wolfram Alpha... it's for acquisition of the technology... or an API share. Google doesn't want to be a mega-calculator, but if...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Wolfram Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics

Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Apple iPod touch sets child's pants on fire; parents sue

Apple iPod touch sets child's pants on fire; parents sueNot related, probably, can children constantly bullied in schools sue the districts in which they grew up?Since everything has an effect on everything else around it, I say Apple should be sued. Quality Control is not a sin. Especially...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Apple Products

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Samsung Byline SCH-R310 (MetroPCS)

The Samsung Byline is the perfect example of a Metro PCS cell phone. Compact, easy to use, and functional, it's designed for making calls, sending messages, and simple Web browsing. The Byline, aka the SCH-R310, shuns all multimedia extras--you won't even find a VGA camera--but it offers Bluetooth and voice...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., keypad button, Byline

Product reviews 2009-03-03

Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our money

Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our moneyEthics are personalEthics are a personal matter. The fact that there are many people who don't have them can be frustrating, annoying, and a major PITA. BUT, their lack NEVER gives me an excuse to behave the same. I choose to keep...

Tags: Business ethics, Personal finance, Operational accounting, Litigation, Microsoft Corp., Borg, worker, ethics

Discussion threads 2009-02-22

Don???t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Don???t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.Um...no.I was an outside vendor (Contingent Worker in GS-speak) for 8 months at Goldman in NYC last year and I don't see a lot of similarity between the actual people there and the ones described in this article. There were very, very...

Tags: Calculator

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon Kindle, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Mortgages, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Marketing, Finance, Capital Structures, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?

Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...

Tags: Notebooks, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Obama and Ed Tech

Obama and Ed TechNice one Chris...Handing out an Acer Aspire One connected to Wi-Fi broadband to every child is not going to solve education problems. What about inept teachers? What about poorly designed curriculums? The problem with you Chris is that you think your current fad is the ubiqutious solution...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, obama, Obama, computer

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

Motorola i776 - silver (Sprint)

Photo gallery:Motorola i776At the fall CTIA show in September, Sprint assured us that it was not forgetting its Nextel fans. The carrier promised that by the end of the year it would release four iDEN-only phones for the push-to-talk-loving masses. We've already reviewed the Motorola i365, we're still waiting for...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Sprint Communications, Nextel Communications Inc., i776, phone, Motorola Inc.

Product reviews 2008-12-03

Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search results

Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search resultsThe iPhone keypad screamsfor an application like this!RE: Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search resultsThis is truly groundbreaking for the iPhone, especially since it is coming from Google. I am glad to see they are continuing to support many mobile...

Tags: cloud computing, Speech recognition, WinMo, Google Inc., Apple iPhone, Google Search

Discussion threads 2008-11-14