As the infrastructure behind the Internet develops, credit cards - or smartcards - will start handling micropayments. Compiling content is not a new concept - Yahoo has been doing it for years - but recently, companies like Yellow Pages and...
Swedish firm, Pipebeach is launching a service which allows users to have Web pages read out to them over a mobile phone. A spokesman for the firm said: "The system takes any existing Web page and converts it to audio - you can interact with it in...
In the book, Crystal touches on the subject of email, chat rooms, Usenet newsgroups and web pages - all examples of what the author calls netspeak. Cambridge boffin David Crystal has published a book which explores the language of the internet.
The effectiveness of face recognition is growing as technology develops. There may be some disastrous projects along the way to spice the news pages but progress will ultimately be made. Martin Brampton has his doubts…
Already, the team that develops IE has documented the chain of events, including the code created by the developer who crafted the initial patch, Toulouse said. The flaw was discovered after users of IE 6 with Service Pack 1 reported that the...
He pointed to this week's acquisition of Medstory, a California-based company that develops healthcare search technology. Vertical search pages are just one of the possibilities, Ozzie said, adding that advertisers are happy to look beyond Google...