WMPXP supports analogue and digital TV (including multi-monitor and HDTV up to 200 dpi) and signal demodulation, tuning, software de-multiplexing, a guide store and USB array microphones with Acoustic Echo Cancellation.
Like many Google experiments, the new functionality may or may not be widely incorporated into the company's well-loved search engine, but Google has hinted at its ambitions for geographically targeted search in the past.
The scanners operate at frequencies and power permitted for RFID radio signals in Europe which are around eight times lower than those used in the US. Marks & Spencer has begun a trial of the controversial radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking tags in...
According to people familiar with the technology, state Senator Debra Bowen is the first legislator in the nation to introduce a bill that seeks to govern the use of RFID, a technology that has sparked controversy since retailers began experiments...
It's a short-term trial just to see what the responses are like. A spokeswoman for HSBC told silicon.com the results will be evaluated once the trial finishes this week, with a possible view to extending the technology to other branches in the...
When UN workers descend on distressed locales, they often encounter logjams at airport tarmacs and confusion over what exactly is in this or that box, said David Nabarro, who's chiefly in charge of co-ordinating responses to bird and human...