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November 10, 2009 |
Intel Unveils Reader for the Visually Impaired Rather than compete with Kindle, Intel's new device is for those with reading challenges who need to read content not available as an e-Book.   |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006 |
Speak To Me The National Federation for the Blind (NFB) and inventor/author Ray Kurzweil have announced a new reading tool for the Blind. |
PC World
January 2006
Richard Jantz |
Abbyy OCR Pushes Paper Proficiently The FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition does a superior job of converting paper documents into digital files. |
Fast Company
December 1999
Amy Wilson |
Speed Reader This electronic highlighter of sorts makes taking notes -- and transferring them to your computer -- a snap. |
InternetNews
January 21, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Magnifies Talking Browser Increasing government regulation and aging Baby Boomers spark Big Blue's continued investment in its Home Page Reader, a browser to address the needs of blind, visually impaired or elderly people using the Internet. |
Information Today
May 9, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Finally Begins Work to Make Kindles ADA-Compliant On May 1, 2013, ebook giant Amazon announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Judy Heim |
Locking Out the Disabled Office buildings have wheelchair ramps, TV has closed captions, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Dan Costa |
E-Book Readers Can Do Better The printed book is best for presenting lengthy text, so why try to reinvent a technology that has been around for thousands of years? Do something new instead. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? The search leader is not currently user-friendly for the blind. MSN and Yahoo have better solutions, though if a user is both blind and deaf, it poses a problem. |
PC Magazine
October 18, 2006
Dan Costa |
Sony Portable Reader System (PRS-500) This is the best eBook reader that has ever been made, but it could still use some tweaks when it comes to ease of use and performance. |
InternetNews
May 1, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Helps N.Y. Times Update its Online Look Bill Gates demonstrated a prototype viewer called Times Reader, developed in conjunction with the New York Times and built on the Windows Presentation Foundation library. |
PC World
December 12, 2000
Richard Jantz |
Shoot and Scan with Philips's Unique Video Camera More than just a Webcam, this little Philips video camera also scans objects and portions of documents... |
Search Engine Watch
May 19, 2005
Matt Bailey |
Don't Disable Your Site for Handicapped Users Are you designing web sites that are accessible to disabled users? If not, you're overlooking a powerful market segment of millions of searchers and potential buyers -- including 1.3 million legally blind and 10 million visually impaired Americans. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2005
M. David Stone |
Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition Abbyy FineReader 8.0 improves text recognition from books, PDF files, and digital photos. |
D-Lib
August 2009
Tanner et al. |
Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive |
InternetNews
February 5, 2009
Judy Mottl |
Google Mobilizes Its Book Collection Google takes initial step to bringing its library to mobile readership. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2005
M. David Stone |
Listening to Office You may know you can speak text and commands to Office. But did you know Office can talk back? |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Daniel Grotta |
Midrange Scanners, Pro Functions Find out how Canon, Epson, HP, and Microtek are keeping the market alive with innovation and performance. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 1, 2010
Sara Stroud |
Merging IT With AT Assistive tech joins the mainstream When Apple's iPad hit shelves earlier this year, educators and educational software developers were already thinking about what it could mean for students with learning and communication impairments. |
BusinessWeek
October 16, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Gutenberg 1, Sony 0 Sony's Reader is hurt by clunky software and a clueless bookstore. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
NIST Demonstrates New Reading Device for the Visually Impaired The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the release of a new Braille reader that may soon bring the benefits of electronic books to the visually impaired... |
D-Lib
March 2006
Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Sony's Bookish Turn After a launch delay, Sony's bid for bookworms is back on track. Sony's early start in getting the Reader to market remains commendable, but an even earlier launch would have been better. |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
Text That Doesn't Print Use a special font option in Word to make text appear on the screen but disappear when the document is printed. |
PC World
November 2000
Melissa J. Perenson |
A Snappy, Go-Anywhere Webcam Intel's new $149 Pocket PC Camera, which works with Windows 98, 98 SE, or Me, joins a growing group of untethered Webcams--products versatile enough for videoconferencing and for capturing still images and making short videos away from the PC... |
Information Today
January 19, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Kurzweil's Blio: A Singular Challenge to the Ebook Industry? Designed specifically for electronic versions of books, newspapers, and magazines, the platform-independent Blio clearly sets a new standard and model for the graphical display and navigation of electronic content. |
Information Today
August 2000 |
Publishers Participate in Launch Program for Microsoft Reader E-Books Microsoft Corp. has announced that more than 30 book publishers have participated in a production launch program for Microsoft Reader with ClearType display technology, ensuring the availability of over 800 of their books for Microsoft Reader when it launches later this summer.... |
Entrepreneur
March 2005
Melissa Campanelli |
All Access Is your website accessible to consumers with disabilities? If not, you might be missing out on a valuable audience. |
Information Today
January 25, 2010
Nancy Herther |
The DOJ and ADA Mandate Ebook Readers Be Accessible to All Ebook reader makers received a major reality check earlier this month when, after investigating charges of Americans with Disabilities Act violations, the U.S. Department of Justice announced settlements with four major universities that had been part of the Kindle DX project |
PC Magazine
December 15, 2008
Dan Costa |
Sony Reader Digital Book (PRS-700) With the Amazon Kindle sold out, Sony's Reader is the best e-book reader you can buy right now... Stanza... |
D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics. |
PC Magazine
March 6, 2007
David Cardinal |
Vista Tip: Readyboost With Vista's ReadyBoost, you can use any high-performance CompactFlash or SD card with a USB 2.0 card reader to increase your PC's performance. |
InternetNews
December 1, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Times To Go Commuters can now read the New York Times beta-style on their laptops instead of getting ink on their fingers. |
PC World
July 13, 2007
Michael Lasky |
Supercharge Acrobat Reader Customize your PDF viewer to make it work better for you. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Lori Weir |
The Importance of Developing and Investing in Online Course Materials That Enrich the Classroom Experience for Special-Needs Students Students with disabilities may be using assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to access online course materials. When developing course materials, ask yourself how a student with a learning disability might perceive the tasks and information. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2009
Tim Ash |
Writing Sales Copy for Conversions One of the most common components you can test is sales copy. Changing your approach to writing can often lead to a double-digit increase in conversion rates. |
D-Lib
October 2003
Volker Titel |
The Digital Book: A Medial Revolution without a New Medium Neither the terms "book" nor "book science research" need to be limited to the material object and its context. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Rose Holley |
How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitization Programs This article details the work undertaken by the National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program on identifying and testing solutions to improve OCR accuracy in large scale newspaper digitisation programs. |
Investment Advisor
July 1, 2011
Peter Montoya |
Building Your Personal Brochure In working with thousands of financial advisors -- and designing thousands of brochures -- we've learned what makes a great brochure. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2009 |
More Applications Than First Imagined Companies like Google and Amazon have released products that can aid the disabled, but have also been mainstreamed. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Prachi Patel-Predd |
The Enabler How Rob Sinclair has been spearheading Microsoft's efforts to make computer software and devices more usable for people with physical or learning disabilities. |
D-Lib
May 2005
Malama, Landoni & Wilson |
What Readers Want: A Study of E-Fiction Usability Many of the principles for designing the visual components of electronic textbooks can also be applied in the fiction genre. |
PC World
December 2000
Grace Aquino |
Stylish Digital Camera Fits in Your Hand Kodak's new 2.1 megapixel DC3800 digital camera includes a USB CompactFlash card reader at no extra charge... |
Search Engine Watch
November 30, 2006
Matt Bailey |
Making Search Accessible to Visually Impaired Users Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Kate Rockwood |
Can e-book Readers Like the Sony Reader Dominate the Industry in 10 Years? Steve Haber of Sony Electronics discusses whether electronic readers will replace books. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Microsoft Pushes Products and Alliances in E-Book Market Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has made the Windows version of Microsoft Reader for desktop PCs and laptop computers available as a free download. In addition, major publishers are making best-selling titles available in Microsoft Reader format... |
CRM
June 1, 2007 |
The Pulse: Does Your Company Use or is it Planning to Use Speech Analytics? A chart depicting the results of this reader poll: We currently use speech analytics: 56%... We are planning to implement speech analytics in 2007: 1%... etc. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
At Last, A Phone That Takes Dictation Speech-recognition technology for dictation of text messages is becoming available on wireless phones. |
Inc.
March 2009 |
Getting Paid With the ProPay MicroSecure Card Reader, there's no need to write down credit card numbers when you are selling on the road. |
| AskMen.com |
Top 5 Camera Phones Camera phones have made the jump from gimmick to gadget of the moment, but that doesn't mean they're all worth your buck. Thinking of snapping up a camera phone? Check out our editors' five favorite models before you whip out your wallet. |
