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 Wednesday, September 18, 2002
Apple releases Mac OS 10.2.1 update [The Macintosh News Network]
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Microsoft tops Google hell search rankings. Even beats hell.com... [The Register]
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High-Speed Burning Could Harm Pioneer Combo Drives [Slashdot]
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Not Quite A Fish In Your Ear...Yet.

Can your PDA speak German?

"Big Blue on Wednesday will start selling its ViaVoice Translator, software for PDAs (personal digital assistants) that use Microsoft's PocketPC operating system . IBM's software will translate English to and from German, French, Italian and Spanish.

The ViaVoice Translator is part of a new push by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and several small start-ups to give handhelds a voice. For example, Jornada, a PDA that HP is developing will take photos, scan them for foreign text and translate the text into any number of languages. And the Phraselator talking PDA uses speech-recognition software to translate military commands for U.S. troops in Afghanistan....

The problem with translation software is it uses up a lot of memory for PDAs, and IBM concedes that the ViaVoice Translator is no different. IBM recommends users increase their PDA's memory with another 128MB of RAM if they plan to install the software package." [CNET News.com]

This kind of software could make things much easier in libraries that serve communities with a large number of patrons with ESL needs in one of these four languages. Sounds like a great model grant to me....

[The Shifted Librarian]
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