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Skype Messages Monitored In China

Pickens writes "Human-rights activists have discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives Internet text conversations sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and eBay. Researchers say the system monitors a list of politically charged words that includes words related to the religious group Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, the Chinese Communist Party and also words like democracy, earthquake and milk powder. The encrypted list of words inside the Tom-Skype software blocks the transmission of these words and records personal information about the customers who send the messages. Researchers say their discovery contradicts a public statement made by Skype executives in 2006 that 'full end-to-end security is preserved and there is no compromise of people's privacy.

Microsoft Gets Patent for Censoring Software

Microsoft has been granted a patent for software that censors "undesirable" words in real-time mode or a batch mode. The auto-censoring filter compares words in live recordings to phonemes or words included in undesired speech data. If there is a match, the words are made "unintelligible or inaudible."

Microsoft Gets Patent for Bleeping Out Words

Microsoft was granted U.S. patent No. 7437290 for, essentially, a technology that lets the company bleep out words in an audio stream that match a list of predefined bad words. Ars Technica, which reported on the patent both when Microsoft applied for it in 2004 as well as now that it has been granted, notes that the technology could be used for more than just censoring profanity, suggesting that perhaps China or another government would want it employed for other phrases, such as Tibet or free speech.

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Google to turn pictures of a 1000 words into a 1000 words

has announced that scanned documents will now be indexed thanks to the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

Talking English Dictionary Available for iPhone & iPod Touch

Paragon Software Group, a software developer and content provider for mobile devices and desktop PCs, has launched The Talking English Dictionary for the iPhone and iPod touch. The dictionary database contains more than 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions in British English. No Internet connection is required--users can download once and use it without incurring any additional expenses. The "History" feature shows the last 15 translated words, and the "Cross-Lookup" feature checks language comprehension. A native British sound module of 20,000 words is available as well. The Talking English Dictionary allows browsing through the SlovoEd engine, which compresses the dictionary content to a minimum of memory space while allowing the user to perform multiple learning, word reference, and translation functions.

Words of Steel: Best-selling author starting blog

After dozens of best-selling novels, Danielle Steel still has words to spare: She’s starting a blog.

Words of Steel: Bestselling romance author starting blog

NEW YORK - After dozens of bestsellers, novelist Danielle Steel still has words to spare: She's starting a blog.

Fightin' words: What Web users searched and said during the debates

If you're tired of the election season, you "don't want to hear another word about it." The rest of the country, however, had words of its own to get out during the recent debates.

Aghdashlu's "These Two Words" introduced at Iranian Artists Forum

TEHRAN, Oct. 31 (Mehr News Agency) -- The book "These Two Words" by prominent artist Aidin Aghdashlu was introduced in a ceremony held on the occasion of his 68th birthday at the Iranian Artists Forum on Wednesday.

Pictures paint a thousand words for engineers searches

engineering business systems A ‘graphical Google for engineers’ that allows designers to perform electronic searches for drawings, without using words to describe them, has been developed by Aston Business School.

Obama on science, in his own words

Barack Obama's victory heralds a new era in science. Here, in his own words, is how the President-elect sees the future for a range of crucial issues.

Zaheer, Ponting in war of words

Five days of action during the opening Test between India and Australia offered little non-cricketing drama on the field, bar the heated exchange of words between paceman Zaheer Khan and Aussie stumper Brad Haddin on Friday's second day.

If our world is not just a world of words , why not take advantage of sacred art to better communicate the Word of God . Monsignor Timothy Verdon,

If our world is not just a world of words , why not take advantage of sacred art to better communicate the Word of God . Monsignor Timothy Verdon, Professor of Sacred Arts,one of the participants at the XII General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops tells us more...

Small Change to Google Phrase Search Syntax

In other words, it used to be that you could use punctuation between words instead of quote characters outside the phrase to trigger phrase search results. I often used dashes, as in foo-bar. Ianf writes, “Apparently it is no more, only I only realized it just now.” (Not sure how new this is; also note you will still often get very similar results.)

Oilexco and Venture stock research: Best of the Boards/Blogs

Accumulate, accumulate, accumulate.” Words to live by and words to die by, from umbisam on the Coalcorp Mining (TSX: T.CCJ, Stock Forum) Bullboard.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve

AN ANCIENT Chinese adage goes, 'Even four horses cannot retrieve one's words after they are spoken'. It holds true especiallly in the digital world, where everything one uploads - be they words, pictures or videos - is stored, cached and replicated, almost with impunity.

Business Opportunities and Promotion Blogs

If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic in their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.

Google rolls out audio search for YouTube videos

FRAMINGHAM- Google has launched an audio search indexing experiment that allows users to find spoken words inside videos and jump to the portion of the video where the words are spoken.

To Be Straight with You

It’s often said that some dramatic situations are so intense that words inevitably escalate into dance, song or both. DV8’s ambiguously titled To Be Straight with You makes an opposite journey. The choreographer Lloyd Newson’s company, which is renowned for dance and “physical theatre”, turns not merely to words in order to express its outrage at homophobia but to no fewer than 85 verbatim interviews with gay, straight and not-so-sure people in streets, living rooms, everywhere.

Shine On Brightly: Creative Urns, Memorial Art and Jewelry Help Remember People and Pets

"Art has the power to heal, to unite, and to express feeling when words sometimes can't be found. It can pay tribute to someone and serve as a constant symbol of the unique spirit within. If we look at great art through history, it can tell us so much about people and places through nonverbal communication. Grief can be so overwhelming, and hits us when we least expect it. Art supercedes linear and logical thinking, and can capture feelings that aren't always explainable through words," said Adrienne Crowther, Owner of Shine On Brightly. "The idea for Shine On Brightly was developed from a lifelong passion for art, and the belief that every life deserves to be honored and celebrated. We're located in Asheville, North Carolina, but our products are available worldwide.

Microsoft gets bleeping patent

The software maker last week was granted U.S. patent No. 7437290 for, essentially, a technology that lets the company bleep out words in an audio stream that match a list of predefined bad words.

Microsofts New What the @#%$* Censorship Patent

You can thank prudent network censors that we don't hear any of George Carlin's so-called "Seven Dirty Words" on broadcast television. But live television broadcasts can sometimes foil even the best of censors. They only have a seven-second delay to bleep words. But thanks to Microsoft, censors may soon be getting a new tech tool to bleep blunders and zap foul language.

Microsoft's new 'What the @#%$*' censorship patent

You can thank prudent network censors that we don't hear any of George Carlin's so-called "Seven Dirty Words" on broadcast television. But live television broadcasts can sometimes foil even the best of censors. They only have a seven-second delay to bleep words. But thanks to Microsoft, censors may soon be getting a new tech tool to bleep blunders and zap foul language.

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