The current situation in the US is adding some urgency to the debate - across the Atlantic, huge patent-related financial penalties are becoming a familiar part of the landscape. In a recent example, a judge told Microsoft to pay $521m to Eolas...
Some of IBM's current research projects include free-form dialog support and expressive output, which allow a computer to pick up emotional or contextual cues in a person's speech, as well as to deliver messages with more urgency and in ordinary...
As a matter of urgency, companies need to improve their IT infrastructure in order to meet the Companies Bill requirements. The Department for Trade and Industry, led by Patricia Hewitt (coincidently a former employee of auditing company Arthur...
However, given the overwhelming presence of Steve Jobs that surrounds the launch and development of the first Macintosh in 1984, it's easy for those who aren't au fait with the colourful and complex history of Apple to understand the phenomenal...
And that's why there's a sense of urgency; we need to have those critical tools at the disposal of our agents and analysts to do their job, and that urgency will remain. It is true we don't have any mouse interaction with that version of automated...
Shane O'Riordan, general manager of group communications at Halifax, said lessons have been learned, adding: "We are reviewing our procedures as a matter of urgency. The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an employee last...