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12 August 2002 |
The key numbers: c 20% of subscriber growth has come in the last 2 months; 47% of its subscriber base now have cam-phones. (How much are they using them?)
7:25:48 PM 
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SIP gains traction as de facto signalling standard for packet-based voice as Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel etc rollout products. Analysts like its simplicity compared with H.323. Issues:
- in order to use it, will we need to throw out the billions of handsets that are already out there?
- there's a need to map its email-style addressing to numeric addresses so its less complicated for 12-button keypads
- security - needs to work with firewalls etc. Related: Schneier's security concerns about VOIP re-uniting the voice and data channels (which are currently separate in current, non-VOIP technology)
7:24:44 PM
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Siemens research unit demonstrates passive radar using mobile base station signals. Piggy-backing off existing wireless network infrastructure means it's potentially much cheaper than conventional military radar systems, and presumably quite resilient.
7:23:45 PM
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11 August 2002, UK: Channel5 broadcasts a Fox TV show from 2001 called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?", and strongly suggests that Nope, We Didn't. The Fox show annoyed astronomer Philip Plait, so he put up a strong refutation of the show and of moon landing conspiracy theories in general. And Ian Goddard's Are Apollo moon photos fake? page is absolutely brilliant, and not just because it uses Lego models to show the plausibility of the lunar pictures.
7:22:35 PM
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20/20 Speech is a JV between QinetiQ (formerly DERA – the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) and NXT Plc (the licensors of flat-panel loudspeaker technology), and does medical and defence ware on proprietary speech recognition and synthesis platforms.
4:17:43 PM
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The voice-controlled, multimodal system enables students to verbally guide aircrafts into and out of assigned radar sectors.
4:15:54 PM
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Dremedia, the UK broadcasting technology group, has signed a partnership agreement with CNN which will use its voice recognition software to enhance the news group's broadband internet content.
In short: Dremedia uses speech rec from SoftSound and search/automation tech from Autonomy (both companies have investment from Autonomy) to search content in real-time and find related stories. Useful for broadband viewers and broadcasters. Dremedia's white paper on the technology is at Broadcast papers, and includes some interesting comments on the limitations of other approaches (eg managing assets via meta-tagging, indexing).
3:46:47 PM
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... looks like a DesignPatterns-stylee approach to IA. ie: sufficiently structured it's a bit confusing.
3:43:13 PM
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Markus Kuhn comprehensively explains the ISO 216 paper size system (A4, A3 etc) and the ideas behind its design. 9.5 out of 10 users who print worldwide said their printers prefer A4.
3:35:59 PM
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