commands

Images: Microsoft Office, then and now

News Some of the most commonly used commands have moved to unexpected places. Here's where to find that and other must-have commands in the new Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007. Now: No more File Office 2007 eliminates the File menu, and places many of...

25 January 2007, 10:47

NASA's talking computer to help astronauts

News Called Clarissa, the system was developed to help astronauts on the International Space Station with routine tasks -- such as testing the water supply for contamination -- by responding to verbal commands and speaking detailed instructions.

27 June 2005, 10:26

Bots could be cloaked by encryption

News Once it is installed on a PC, bot software typically connects to Internet Relay Chat to listen for commands. The zombies can be controlled remotely by the attacker, who can send commands while the owner is oblivious to what's happening.

15 November 2005, 9:03

Office 12 makeover takes on 'feature creep'

News Office, which once had 100 commands neatly organised into menus, has ballooned to contain some 1,500 commands located in scores of menus, toolbars and dialogue boxes. Instead, users will see a 'ribbon' of different commands above their document...

21 September 2005, 11:10

Photos: In touch with Microsoft's Surface

News These tags can be placed on a variety of objects and different commands can programmed into the Surface system. Surface is also Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capable so will be able to react in a similar way to mobile phone commands and RFID chips.Credit...

Tags: credit, face, commands, bill

3 October 2007, 10:46

Talk to your car with new tech

News But those technologies have long delivered a frustrating experience to consumers, thanks to a limited vocabulary of commands or poor recognition of synonyms and accents. In development for roughly three years, VoiceBox's technology differs from...

24 January 2006, 10:31

Photos: The practical robots

News Unlike a webcam you set up with a bird's-eye view for catching your dog on the couch, you could use the ConnectR to follow it around the house and even give voice commands. Whether your pet would actually respond to your commands is another story.

Tags: story, commands, domain, remotely

28 September 2007, 11:18

Behold the customisable keyboard

News It's no surprise, then, that it was a game enthusiast who first conceived of the DX1 Input System, an innovative configuration of movable 'smart' keys that can be assigned macros, or keyword combinations, to accomplish tasks such as implementing...

27 June 2005, 11:29

Photos: The pigeon as cyborg

News In actual fact it's a bird that can now receive computer commands through electrodes in its brain from the device attached -- somewhat cumbersomely, it seems -- on top of its head. No, this isn't a punk rock pigeon with a crimson mohawk.

1 March 2007, 10:14

Photos: Control your iPod with a wink

News A few wink commands for the A researcher at Osaka University in Japan has developed a device that allows users to control their iPod music player via eye winks. Called the KomeKami Switch, or Temple Switch, the gadget uses infrared sensors and a...

Tags: eye, ipod, switch, university

5 March 2008, 9:28

HP announces smart phone at 3GSM

News While the HP iPaq 500 comes only with a numeric keyboard, it has speech translation so users can listen to email and text messages, and can use voice commands to work the phone. HP will be offering its own smart phone with 3G Internet access, and...

13 February 2007, 9:05

'Don't shout at the robot!'

News While it won't recognise spoken commands, it will recognise tones and react to what it senses in them. There's one thing the so-called companion robots released by Sony, Honda and others have in common: they haven't sold well.

22 November 2006, 9:43

The A-Z of ebusiness (T-U)

News It enables a user to control a web server remotely and to communicate with other servers on a network just as if the user was entering the user commands directly onto the server terminal. T-commerce Commerce occurring over the medium of television...

1 January 2002, 14:00

New Sony CD security risk identified

News In each case, Princeton University computer science professor Edward Felten and researcher Alex Halderman found that the uninstall programs responded to commands from their creators' Web sites, but would also respond to malicious instructions from...

21 November 2005, 8:50

Developing countries need sexy phones

News The Motorola boss added that the developing economies have forced new directions in handset design -- including screen technology that can be read in bright sunlight and voice-activated commands for illiterate users.

5 December 2006, 9:21