talking

Scaling Google's peaks

News I think that understanding language is kind of the last frontier in artificial intelligence, and then talking to a computer will be just like talking to a reference librarian, because they will both be equally knowledgeable about the world and...

11 May 2004, 14:00

Chips clock up new approach

News I am hoping that people really understand the sort of discontinuity we are talking about here. We are talking about moving off to an entirely different plane. We are talking about giving a level of data, essentially openness, that has never been...

10 June 2004, 10:50

Longhorn: The inside story

News We are talking about ways we can work together to benefit customers. There were two aspects that Jim was talking about. The desktop version of Longhorn, Microsoft's next release of Windows, may receive most of the ink.

21 May 2004, 14:00

Intel head attacks complacency

News That is what I was talking about. So going back to an integrated dual core or multi-core approach is what people have been talking about for the last 4 or 5 years. A few years ago you were talking about alternative energy and people looked at you...

2 June 2004, 11:35

Apple talks up security

News We're not talking an order of magnitude (less). We're talking maybe half as many. But some say a recent vulnerability demonstrates that the notoriously tight-lipped company must communicate more openly on security issues and move more quickly when...

3 June 2004, 12:25

News.blog: Hitatchi to start new storage company?

News We haven't able to confirm this, but we've heard it now from a couple of people: Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems.

14 January 2008, 9:10

News.blog: Terrorists use Google Earth

News Google is talking with military agencies in Iraq after learning that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra appear to have been using aerial footage from Google Earth to pinpoint strikes, according to the Daily Telegraph.

17 January 2007, 9:49

Broadband Britain loves to talk

News On average, Britons spend a total of 7 hours and 9 minutes per day surfing the Net, using mobile phones, talking on landline telephones, watching TV and listening to the radio, up from an average of just six minutes back in 2002.

Tags: cent, broadband, connections, communications

15 August 2008, 8:13

Gates says goodbye to London

News Alluding to Microsoft's Surface technology, which he gave a demonstration of, Gates added: "We'll be talking about a computer in the desk in the future. Talking about the use of technology in business, Gates said: "We can say that computing has...

Tags: chairman, gates, microsoft chairman, jobs

31 January 2008, 8:11

Virtual worlds -- the future of everything?

News I can hear people talking in the background. Talking in 'polychromic time'That's important, he suggested, because such flexibility could give people the scope to engage in complex interactions regardless of whether they feel like going questing in...

8 May 2006, 9:45

Gates shows off Vista in CES speech

News Gates hit many of the same notes he hit in last year's speech, talking about the increasing role that digital gadgets are playing in everyday life. However, the company has held off talking about most of the consumer features of the operating...

5 January 2006, 11:27

News.blog: Sony exec hints at PS4

News Australian tech news outlet SmartHouse is reporting that a Sony executive has already been talking about future PlayStation consoles. Paul Holman, vice president of technology for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, said to SmartHouse that the next...

6 December 2006, 10:23

BT offers smart phones with broadband deal

News BT is talking convergence again -- the telco has added a smart phone option to its consumer broadband package. The new service -- BT Total Broadband Anywhere -- furnishes customers with one of a choice of two HTC smart phones, along with 50 any...

Tags: environment, customers, wi fi, package

9 May 2008, 9:26

Microsoft stands firm in the 'great Linux debate'

News HP, Red Hat, Novell and Sun talking about open-source and Linux at this year's LinuxExpo -- that's not news. We did a test 18 months ago with some senior people from Microsoft and some from IBM and we had SQL running on Windows and DB2 running on...

23 April 2004, 9:10

Vista revs up peer-to-peer Wi-Fi

News Whenever Windows Vista computers arrive, they will have their own special way of talking to one another. Microsoft's new operating system, which won't arrive for consumers until early next year, has a new collaboration feature that allows laptops...

31 May 2006, 11:24