AP – Google Inc. says it has found another case of cyberattacks being used to suppress political dissent, this time to silence opponents of a Vietnamese mining project that involves a state-run Chinese company.
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Google: Online attacks aimed at Vietnam critics
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AP – Disruptions suffered by Google Inc.’s Chinese search service show how vulnerable it remains to the country’s Internet police — a threat industry executives said is likely to drive users and advertisers in the mainland away.
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Google service disruption bodes ill for Chinese
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There’s a surprising abundance of tech geared toward helping out people with visual impairments, but you won’t find too many smartphones populating that sphere of electronics. Aiming to reverse this trend, LookTel is in the Beta stage of developing so-called artificial vision software that combines a Windows Mobile handset with a PC BaseStation to provide object and text recognition, voice labeling, easy accessibility and remote assistance. It can be used, much like the Intel Reader, to scan text and read it back to you using OCR, and its camera allows it to identify objects based on pre-tagged images you’ve uploaded to your PC. Finally, it allows someone to assist you by providing them with a remote feed of your phone’s camera — a feature that can be useful to most people in need of directions. Skip past the break to see it demoed on video.
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AFP – Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson said on Wednesday it has won a 1.3-billion-dollar (960-million-euro) contract to upgrade the network of Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel.
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Ericsson wins $1.3 bln India contract
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AP Correspondent Haven Daley gets a look at and a chance to work out on some of the new gadgets unveiled at the International Health, racquet&sportsclub Association Trade Show in San Francisco. (March 18)