Tech Nous: Fish, Chips & Computers: Recognition accuracy has traditionally been the major stumbling block for a more widespread adoption of speech recognition software - largely restricting it, in the early years, for use by people with disabilities - for whom it was a marvellous and liberating tool. Not surprisingly, over the years the number of speech recognition software programs dwindled and interest waned as other new technologies...
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Technology Stability and Change: An Integrated Evolutionary Approach: This paper, in many ways, is a response to Professor Radzicki's 2003 call in this journal for intensified use of systems dynamics and computer simulation modeling to rigorously address economic change as the alteration of social and economic structures themselves and not just changes within existing structures. In this vein, this paper aims to broaden...
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Technology 2006: As they seek to comply with ever more stringent discharge limits, municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) across the country frequently must contend with increasing space limitations that complicate efforts to expand or upgrade treatment facilities. This trend toward "doing more with less" is reflected in the growing interest in wastewater technologies that enable more advanced treatment without requiring WWTPs...
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Covering the risks of e-commerce: The new economy is creating new opportunities for agents and brokers who are prepared to seize them. That is because while e-commerce businesses might operate in a "virtual" world, the losses to which they are exposed are all too real. Specialized e-commerce policies have been developed to cover them. Providing such coverage to these businesses has become an important, and growing...
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Old Technology Becoming New: With a few months of hearings under its belt the DOC has begun to realize a variety of other applications for the video equipment such as visitation, staff and volunteer training, inmate halfway house interviews, and more. Virtual tour technology, which gives a 360-degree view, is a common tool that has been used by realtors, tour guides and travel agencies as a means of showcasing land and property...
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Consolidation in the Technology Sector: Technology investment is once again on the rise, with both corporate and private equity buyers making acquisition deals in the sector. Start-up companies and evolving business models such as shareware and open source software are popular targets. Computer hardware giant Hewlett-Packard recently signed an agreement to acquire software developer Silverwire Holding...
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