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http://www.jott.com/ Currently a free service
"Turning any cell phone into an eager personal scribe… Speak for up to 30 seconds and then hang up. Jott transcribes the spoken words into writing, and sends the message to its destination as an email or text message. Transcription usually takes a few minutes, or up to 20 minutes during peak hours. The original audio message is retained, and is linked to in the email for reference. The service is deceptively simple, and lends itself to countless applications. It can be used to leave notes to oneself, from a reminder to buy a carton of milk, to capturing a brilliant idea. Or to draft emails, memos, or the next chapter of a novel while driving home from work. Lawyers and doctors, accustomed to speaking their correspondence and notes, can dictate on the fly."
Minorities Now Form Majority in One-Third of Most-Populous Counties
By SAM ROBERTS | Aug 9, 2007 | New York Times
In a further sign of the United States’ growing diversity, nonwhites now make up a majority in almost one-third of the most-populous counties in the country and in nearly one in 10 of all 3,100 counties, according to an analysis of census results to be released today.
The shift reflects the growing dispersal of immigrants and the suburbanization of blacks and Hispanics pursuing jobs generated by whites moving to the fringes of metropolitan areas.
From July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006, metropolitan Chicago edged out Honolulu in Asian population, and Washington inched ahead of El Paso in the number of Hispanic residents. In black population, Houston overtook Los Angeles.
US public sees news media as biased, inaccurate, uncaring: poll
Aug 9 | US/Eastern | www.breitbart.com
More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don't care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed.
And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news -- roughly one quarter of all Americans -- were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said.
More than two-thirds of the Internet users said they felt that news organizations don't care about the people they report on; 59 percent said their reporting was inaccurate; and 64 percent they were politically biased.
USING YOUR MOBILE OVER AN HOUR A DAY 'CAN HARM HEARING'
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk | 21.09.07
Using a mobile phone for more than hour a day could damage hearing, experts have warned. Research shows that those who regularly use their mobile for longer than an hour a day find it harder to hear - with words starting with the letters s, f, h, t and z proving particularly troublesome.
The study, presented to an ear, nose and throat conference in the U.S. this week, comes as mobile phone use in Britain soars to record levels. There are 70 million handsets in use in the UK, which are used to make a third of all calls.
The latest research compared the hearing of 100 mobile phone users aged between 18 and 25 with that of 50 others who did not use mobiles.
This showed a link between longterm regular usage and hearing loss, with those who used their mobile for more than an hour a day for more than four years tending to find it harder to distinguish sounds.
Researcher Dr Naresh Panda said it is possible radiation from longterm mobile use damages the inner ear. Early warning signs may include a warm feeling in the ear, ringing in the ear or a feeling it is clogged up, the American Academy of Otolaryngology's annual conference heard.
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What's happening in mobile computing?
PC Magazine's MagCast
on September 27 featured experts with the latest information. A summary is below.
You can now find the best available WiFi spots via
WeFi.
Online Customer Relationship Management help is available from
Oracle for Siebel-On
Demand (free at this time)or from
salesforce.com which
majors in Google tools. Or, keep your current CRM and access it on the
go via your new handheld computer, such as an
HTC Advantage or
OQO, "the world's
smallest full-featured pc." These new products are for the ultra-mobile
professional who wants a lighter weight, faster, longer battery-life
notebook with full wireless functionality.
The iPhone
was broadly recognized as the most disruptive handheld device with its
"real internet experience in your pocket." It's what all mobile devices
want to be. Today's iPhone is more powerful than a five-year-old
notebook. One million have sold in three months even though it's not yet a business device.
Sprint and Verizon were noted as offering the fastest download times and
having the greatest buildout.
By 2011 mobile device sales will rise from $800M (today) to $1.25
billion units per year, and wireless subscriptions will grow from two to
three billion; in the USA, to 264 million. Wireless data will become a
much greater portion of mobile's function than voice.
Already
many enterprises are using handheld devices for sales functions, field
service and support (with "ruggedized" devices), IT management and much
more. Security is improving rapidly so accessing documents is no
problem, but be careful. New security devices for flash drives are
on the market such as RedCannon's
Key Point Alchemy.
A wireless culture is emerging in the USA. Media convergence is the
buzzword in advertising. Is your website easily viewed online? Contact us for help.
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