Microsoft Steps Up Browser Battle

BBC NEWS Microsoft steps up browser battle
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

Microsoft has stepped up the battle to win back users with the latest release of its Internet Explorer browser. The US software giant says IE 8 is faster, easier to use and more secure than its competitors. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile Speak V3.80
First 2009 update of Mobile Speak for Symbian phones
Support for the latest Samsung and Nokia phones, new Acapela voices and new built-in user dictionary feature.
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, January 29th, 2009

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What Qualifies An Animal As A Service Animal?

Creature Comforts By REBECCA SKLOOT The New York Times

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN A SUBURB of Albany, a group of children dressed as vampires and witches ran past a middle-aged woman in plain clothes. She gripped a leather harness – like the kind used for Seeing Eye dogs – which was attached to a small, fuzzy black-and-white horse barely tall enough to reach the woman’s hip. “Cool costume,” one of the kids said, nodding toward her. Read the rest of this entry »

America’s Top Ten Most Wired Cities

The list-happy business magazine Forbes released on Thursday its annual survey of the top ten most wired cities in America.
. Topping the list is Seattle, the home of , Starbucks, and Microsoft (well, it’s in a suburb). Read the rest of this entry »

ATIA 2009
Code Factory at ATIA 2009
Stop by booth 121 to meet with Code Factory staff!
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain, January 26, 2009

Code Factory, the global leader in development of products designed to eliminate barriers to the accessibility of mobile technology for the blind and visually impaired, is proud to be an exhibitor, in booth 121, at the 2009 ATIA Conference, taking place from January 28th to February 3rd at the Caribe Royale All-Suite Resort and Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. Read the rest of this entry »

Nasty Worm Has Wriggled Into Millions of Computers

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – A nasty worm has wriggled into millions of computers and continues to spread, leaving security experts wondering whether the attack is a harbinger of evil deeds to come.

US software protection firm F-Secure says a computer worm known as “Conficker” or “Downadup” had infected more than nine million computers by Tuesday and was spreading at a rate of one million machines daily. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows Seven, A Kinder Gentler Windows?

Microsoft touts a kinder, gentler Windows version
JESSICA MINTZ; The Associated Press Published: October 29th, 2008 01:30 AM

LOS ANGELES – The next version of Microsoft Windows, the software that defines the computing experience for most people, promises to nag users much less than its maligned predecessor, Vista. PC users will be able to test the new edition early next year. Read the rest of this entry »

For The Blind, Technology Does What A Guide Dog Can’t

January 4, 2009 For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t
By MIGUEL HELFT MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
T. V. RAMAN was a bookish child who developed a love of math and puzzles at an early age. That passion didn’t change after glaucoma took his eyesight at the age of 14. What changed is the role that technology – and his own innovations – played in helping him pursue his interests. Read the rest of this entry »

The Craze For Touch Screen Gadgets And The Blind

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The craze for touch-screen gadgets, sparked by Apple Inc’s popular iPhone, is raising worries that a whole generation of consumer electronics will be out of the reach of the blind.

Motown icon Stevie Wonder and other advocates came to the world’s biggest gadget fest, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, to convince vendors to consider the needs of the blind. Wonder told a CES event that his wishlist included a car he could drive — which he acknowledged was probably “a ways away” — and a Sirius XM satellite radio he could operate. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Begins Windows Seven Push

BBC NEWS Microsoft begins Windows 7 push

The first public trial, or beta, version of Windows 7 has been released. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer used his keynote speech at CES to announce that software developers would get at the trial version on 7 January. On 9 January members of the public will get the chance to download the successor to Windows for themselves. Read the rest of this entry »