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Camera phones to get search tech

News Money phonesNeven Vision, a Santa Monica-based company, has developed software that can be embedded in handsets or in a download from a Web site. Once a photo is taken with the device, its embedded software will launch a search for a match in its...

23 November 2005, 9:54

Vista creates a puzzling buzz

News Vanishing Point is an online puzzle challenge game with clues and hints embedded in the real world," Lee said. This is a puzzle challenge embedded in the planet," Lee said. It started with a cryptic ad on an official Internet Explorer blog, and it...

15 January 2007, 10:13

News.blog: GPS in school uniforms?

News In a recent survey of its own, the company found that 59 per cent of 800 parents surveyed were interested in buying uniforms with embedded Global Positioning Systems. Parents already have a way to monitor kids' phone calls and text messages, and...

23 August 2007, 10:24

Sun plugs Java into RFID

News Sun Microsystems has detailed an update to its radio frequency identification software that will allow Java programs to run embedded on RFID readers. The company said that the second version of its Java System RFID software will be able to run on...

30 June 2005, 9:02

Driverless cars on UK roads by 2056

News The UK's transport infrastructure will be radically changed over the next 50 years by RFID tracking tags, embedded sensors and an artificial intelligence network that will reduce congestion and pollution, according to scientists from the...

27 January 2006, 9:58

Skype to launch new Wi-Fi phones

News Internet phone provider Skype is expanding its Wi-Fi calling options with the launch of three new wireless phones that will have the Skype Internet calling software embedded in them. On Thursday Skype announced it will sell new Wi-Fi phones from...

21 July 2006, 9:00

News.blog: Google tries YouTube ads

News Google is expanding its AdSense program so that Web site publishers can display and make money off embedded video clips from YouTube content partners that have targeted banner or text ads, in addition to the traditional text ads that Google offers.

9 October 2007, 8:45

Camera phone sales booming

News And phones with embedded cameras will make up 38 per cent of all mobile phones shipped during the year, Gartner projected. Sales of camera phones worldwide in 2005 are projected to reach 295.5 million, according to market researcher Gartner.

5 December 2005, 9:49

Apple woos OS pirates with verse

News User sites have been reporting that the Mac maker has embedded a poem in a file likely to be discovered by software pirates attempting to crack the Mac OS in order to run it on non-Apple hardware. Apple has gone all poetic in a warning to would-be...

20 February 2006, 9:32

America set to embrace wallet phones

News With Europe's first commercial rollout just launched, analysts are predicting that mobile wallets -- such as phones with near-field communication (NFC) technology embedded -- are gearing up to take on the US too.

25 April 2006, 9:01

Sony rootkit settlement lays down law

News A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anticopying software the company had embedded in some music CDs. The agreement covers anyone who bought, received or used...

23 May 2006, 9:04

News.blog: Nokia taps EA for play

News Nokia, creator of the N-Gage and N-series smart phones, says that videogame publisher Electronic Arts will supply mobile games to its current and next-generation phones embedded with the Nokia Content Discoverer system.

14 September 2006, 10:58

TfL to bring high-tech travel advice to mobile phones

News London's Blackfriars station is the site of a three-month trial using near field communication (NFC) technology embedded in 'touchpoint' posters to transmit travel advice to the public. Transport for London is testing the potential for near field...

Tags: field, trial, travel, london

29 August 2007, 9:11

NEC PC's chills are multiplying

News The Japanese PC maker recently took the wraps off its Valuestar G Type C, a new desktop PC that has a radiator embedded in the water cooler unit built into the back of the chassis. Your car has a water-cooled radiator, and now the latest desktop PC...

22 August 2005, 9:41

IBM tool helps the blind watch YouTube

News The tool, which works with Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, is designed to handle any file that is embedded in a Web site, including Adobe Flash or Windows Media files. IBM has made a tool for Web browsers that will...

13 March 2007, 9:48