Net dcor
Adobe Systems Inc, a US-based software company has unveiled a series
of technologies that will allow Internet publishers to use magazine style
graphics and typefaces, thus changing the look of the World Wide Web.
Internet critics have for long complained that the graphics currently
available on the Net are lifeless and
boring. Adobe, which makes publishing softwares used by magazines
and newspapers, has persuaded Sun
(a US-based computer maker) to
support a new technical format that
will spice up the Internet graphics.
Sun has agreed to include the
new technology, code named 'Bravo',
with its own Java programming
language.
Milking the Net
Internet is now being used to
enhance dairy operations in India. In
order to get access to international
developments on subjects like breed
improvement of cattle and new product development, Anand-based
National Dairy Development Board
has linked its wide area network
(WAN) to the Internet. This unique
facility will enable routing of mail
from abroad and that of incoming
mail through the Internet gateway at
its headquarters. The internal corporate wide area network is a result of a
collaboration with the Indian
Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
Talk to me
AT&T Corporation has introduced a
new software product that lets users
speak bask commands to computers
and also receive spoken responses.
The Watson ASAP, named after
Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham
Bell's assistant, is one of the efforts to
add voice control facility to personal
computers. Watson requires the user
to first feed into the computer about
100 customised commands - such
as 'print my E-mail' or 'receive my
messages' using keyboard or by
down loading files. The software also
gives the computer practically
unlimited vocabulary.
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