Nuance debuts continuous text input technology
Nuance Communications has announced T9 Trace software that lets users input text on a touchscreen phone by gliding their finger from one letter to another on a virtual keyboard, the company said on Tuesday.
Writing text that way will be faster and easier than typing one letter at a time, according to Nuance.
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IBM slapped with another mainframe antitrust complaint
The third antitrust complaint against IBM's mainframe business was filed with the European Commission Tuesday, compounding the firm's regulatory problems in Europe.
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Wi-Fi spreading fast among mobile phones
Amid the industry hype about 4G (fourth-generation) mobile technologies this week at the CTIA Wireless trade show, the Wi-Fi Alliance will play up the growing importance of wireless LANs on mobile phones.
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After health care vote, high-skill immigration debate returns to Congress
With President Barack Obama set to sign the health care bill on Tuesday, high-skill immigration issues are back in Congress and in court.
It is trying to convince the justices that the high-tech workers have been "foreclosed from applying for some American jobs," that have been reserved for students in the student visa program.
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Opera submits Mini browser for iPhone to Apple
Opera Software has submitted the iPhone version of its Mini browser to Apple for App Store approval, Opera said on Tuesday.
That browser version was first shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and Opera has since worked hard at getting the product as much attention as possible.
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Symantec names riskiest U.S. cities for cyber crime
Seattle is the most dangerous city in the U.S. when it comes to cyber crime, Symantec said today.
The Northwest sported two of the top 10, with Portland, Ore., ranked No. 10 in the list of the nation's 50 largest metro areas. Rounding out the first five were Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Raleigh, N.C. Atlanta, Minneapolis, Denver, and Austin, Texas, completed the top 10.
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Mozilla stops development of Firefox for Windows Mobile
Mozilla has decided to stop development of a version of its Firefox mobile Web browser for phones running Windows Mobile.
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Eclipse Pulsar still holds potential for mobile application development
Eclipse Pulsar, an Eclipse project aimed at addressing fragmentation in mobile application development, has been held back by the perception that it is just for Java development, but it still offers potential, panelists said Monday evening at the annual EclipseCon technical conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Social networking given the spotlight at Demo
With social networks such as Facebook and Twitter taking up more and more of our time and attention, the Spring Demo conference was loaded Monday with technology designed to make it easier and faster to share and pull together information.
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Google services survive in China so far, but users worry
Google's services for Chinese users remained accessible in China in the half-day after the company closed a censored version of its search engine, but users still worried that angered authorities could move to block Google sites.
Google's Hong Kong-based search site stayed available in China after Google started redirecting visitors there from its China-based search engine, Google.cn, even though the Hong Kong site returns sensitive results that China usually requires online search providers to filter out.
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Critical Firefox bug fixed one month after disclosure
Just days before the start of a hacking contest set to target Web browser vulnerabilities, Mozilla has patched its flagship Firefox browser.
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Demo's cool software: There's no iPhone app for that
Apple's stubborn refusal to open the iPhone/iPad platform is catching up with it. Here at Demo Spring 2010, where more than 60 young technology companies are strutting their stuff, some of the best mobile applications on display won't run on the iPhone. "If you replace a native iPhone application, Apple will block you," says Peter Lindgren, CEO of Visiarc, whose Mobile Documents application streams large attachments to your phone, instead of waiting for them to download.
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Demo's cool software: There's no iPhone app for that
Apple's stubborn refusal to open the iPhone/iPad platform is catching up with it. Here at Demo Spring 2010, where more than 60 young technology companies are strutting their stuff, some of the best mobile applications on display won't run on the iPhone. "If you replace a native iPhone application, Apple will block you," says Peter Lindgren, CEO of Visiarc, whose Mobile Documents application streams large attachments to your phone, instead of waiting for them to download.
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