Conexant is partnering with Diotek to integrate speech recognition with its digital audio processor. OEMs integrating Conexant’s CX20805 dual-core, 32-bit digital audio processor will be able to add voice control technology to any number of products, including home appliances, consumer electronics and educational toys. Ambient noise and distance can both inhibit successful voice recognition, but […]
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Nielsen shows how people use TV differently
The number of U.S. homes that don’t get traditional television service continues to increase, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have TVs. The Nielsen company said in a report issued on Tuesday that three-quarters of the estimated 5 million homes that don’t get TV signals over the airways or through cable, satellite or telecommunications companies […]
Expanding database enables discoveries in emerging field of metabolomics
LA JOLLA, CA – September 10, 2012 – Over the last decade, metabolomics has emerged as the newest of the “omic” sciences (following genomics and proteomics) to provide comprehensive biochemical information about cellular metabolism. This new field has revealed that many of the chemicals involved in or produced through metabolism are currently unknown, but may […]
Cheap and cheerful: scientists find color that never fades
(Reuters) – Scientists have found nature’s way of creating color that never fades, a technique they say could replace pigments used in industry with natural plant extracts in products from food coloring to security features in banknotes. Layers of cellulose that reflect specific wavelengths of light – ‘structural color’ found in peacock feathers, scarab beetles […]
Yale Cancer Center chief takes questions — live and on the Web
Dr. Thomas Lynch, director of the Yale Cancer Center, will address some of the latest developments in cancer research and treatment in a live Web video interview Thursday, Sept. 13. Known internationally for his leadership in the development of novel, genetically targeted therapies for the treatment of lung cancer, Lynch was named director in 2009, […]
Yale’s Joan Steitz reaps two honors for outstanding contributions to science
Yale’s Joan Steitz has been awarded two major prizes recognizing the outstanding achievements of women scientists. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was awarded the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize of Rockefeller University, which recognizes outstanding achievements of women scientists. Steitz is being honored for her discoveries […]
Time Warner Cable, Viacom strengthen TV Everywhere ties
Time Warner Cable subscribers can now access a host of Viacom Web portals to access TV Everywhere content anywhere, anytime. Time Warner Cable subscribers already had access to Viacom programming via its TWC TV app, which serves up live show to computers, iOS and Android devices within a home, but now they have access to […]
FCC advances TV spectrum selloff plans
The FCC’s plan to sell off broadcast television airwaves to spectrum-starved wireless operators is set to advance at its next open meeting. Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said Friday the agency would vote on a “detailed proposal” for implementing the auctions at the Sept. 28 meeting, “an important step toward pioneering the world’s first incentive auctions […]
EarthLink to sell Clearwire 4G service
Clearwire today announced a wholesale agreement that will enable EarthLink to offer its customers high-speed fixed and mobile broadband service using Clearwire’s WiMAX network. EarthLink’s wireless service will initially target consumers for in-home use and is expected to launch in early 2013. Future product offerings will include mobile devices and new services for small business […]
C Spire lights up LTE in Mississippi
Regional provider C Spire Wireless has switched on its LTE network in Mississippi after problems getting equipment compatible with its 700 MHz A-block spectrum caused a nine-month delay in the service’s launch. The network went live today in Greenville, Miss., and will expand to 30 more markets in the state by the end of October, […]