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Finland: Broadband Is a Legal Right |
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Come July 2010, every Fin will have access to a 1 Megabit-per-second broadband connection. Finland just became the first country in the world to sign a law that provides every citizen of the country with a legal right to a broadband connection.
The Finnish government had already announced that every citizen should have access to a 100 Megabit-per-second broadband connection by the end of 2015. Now, it took an intermediary step toward that goal. On Oct. 14, the Ministry of Transport and Communications announced that every Fin should have a legal right to a 1 Megabit-per-second connection by next summer.
The move could pave the way for other countries to start looking at broadband as its citizens’ inalienable legal right, akin to freedom of speech and freedom of movement. That makes a lot of sense: Most of us can no longer perform our work duties, do homework or communicate with friends without having access to the Internet. Many Web-based communications and video services, such as Skype, require a broadband connection to work. People need broadband connections to live normal lives, as Finland is the first nation to acknowledge.
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Posted by phoenix on Thursday, October 15, 2009 (08:19:56) (1512 reads)
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Google has acquired reCAPTCHA |
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Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect websites from spam and fraud.
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Since computers have trouble reading squiggly words like these, CAPTCHAs are designed to allow humans in but prevent malicious programs from scalping tickets or obtain millions of email accounts for spamming. But there’s a twist — the words in many of the CAPTCHAs provided by reCAPTCHA come from scanned archival newspapers and old books. Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text.
In this way, reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. So we'll be applying the technology within Google not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process.
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Posted by phoenix on Monday, October 05, 2009 (06:49:55) (1531 reads)
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Leoxsys LEO-150N-BT Wireless N-Router with bit torrent unveiled in India |
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Leoxsys brings out some interesting piece of news for its Indian users. The company has unveiled its Wireless N-Router with built-in Bit Torrent download to the Indian market. Called as the LEO-150N-BT, this router boasts of all wireless routing functionalities along with being compliant to the latest technology standards.
This router offering seamless wireless connectivity, is exclusively designed for both home and business users. The device enables easy-usage along with offering compatibility with high speed 11n standard. Claimed to be the first ever consumer routers in India offering an integrated Bit torrent/HTTP/FTP download, this device is sure a great catch for torrent enthusiasts and heavy downloaders.
“LEO-150N-BT is a unique product that is designed to achieve the goal of making total solution for SOHOs and mid-enterprises, as it combines high-speed wireless 11N, USB NAS, FTP Server, File Server, Print Server, Bit torrent/HTTP/FTP download and up to 8 Multiples SSIDs functions in a single device,” shares Sunil Savaliya, Managing Director, Leoxsys Networks.
Furthermore, the ones who heavily download data can perform effortless downloads via an attached USB drive, minus PC. Thereby, enabling reduced power consumption as well as complete protection of the PC from virus and other malfunctions.
The router’s unique Schedule functionality allows users to add Bit torrent/HTTP/FTP download files and also schedule it. Also, the downloading of files on the USB drive can be controlled per schedule, sans the computer.
This Leoxsys creations runs on a 384 MHz MIPS processor, ensuring speedy download/upload using the bit torrent/FTP server. In addition, Parental control is also enabled by using WDS, WPS, QoS WMM, MAC/IP Filtering, and URL/Content blocking functions.
In addition, the novel router swanks an integrated 4-port switch, high speed USB 2.0 port and a built-in DDNS functionality. Also, conversion of the USB storage into a personal FTP Server is now possible along with managing access authority. Backed by a one-year warranty and online and telephonic tech support, the device also allows creating user accounts of FTP server as well as sharing files with others over Internet. Finally, the router also facilitates smooth and secure connections with a button press while negating manual setting through the WPS One Touch feature.
Posted by terenaam on Monday, October 05, 2009 (06:48:59) (1192 reads)
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Try Google Fast FLip - News Reader |
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| Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. |
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Posted by phoenix on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (07:03:35) (1328 reads)
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IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office |
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360.000 IBM workers have been told to stop using Microsoft Office and switch to the Open Office-based software Symphony.
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Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM's in-house Lotus software. The use of Microsoft Office will in future require managerial approval. With immediate affect, the Open Document Format (ODF) will rule at IBM with the file ending .doc soon belonging to the past.
Lotus Symphony is an office software that incorporates huge chunks of customized Open Office without a databank module. The free software download provided by IBM is an attempt at luring customers away from Microsoft. IBM's cooperation with Linux distributors like Red Hat, Canonical and Novell was designed to strengthen the software's market chances. |
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Posted by phoenix on Monday, September 14, 2009 (06:13:46) (1365 reads)
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