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The California Senate voted unanimously on Aug 29 to pass a bill requiring evoting systems to include a paper trail which was conceived by computer scientists as a safeguard against election fraud or voting errors People need and deserve to know their votes have been counted accurately and the best way to ensure that is to make sure theres a paper printout of every electronic ballot declared bill author Sen Debra Bowen arina Del Rey Her legislation would accord electronic ballots the status of a legal record but depend on the paper trail for the states mandatory hand count of ballots in 1 of districts...
Tight-lipped Google starts chatting
Despite earlier denials Google has launched into the chat market with an instant messaging application for Windows
Google Talk allows users to send instant messages and make voice calls over the Internet Its use of the popular standard used by the Jabber project allows it to interoperate with chat clients like Apples iChat Trillian and the open source Gnome
For voice calls the Google developers behind the application plan to support Session Initiation Protocol the burgeoning standard for Internet telephony A number of voice compression algorithms are supported...
New OpenSearch Enables Search Syndication
March 28 amp This month Amazon
introduced a new service called OpenSearch which
allows a content provider to syndicate the ability
to search the provideramps site Announcing
the new service at the OampReilly Emerging Technology
conference Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proclaimed
the OpenSearch mantra ampWe want OpenSearch
to do for search what has done for contentamp
Amazon describes OpenSearch as an example of
ampvertical searchamp At the conference
Bezos demonstrated searching for ampVioxxamp
in a conventional search engine...
NewsBreaks - Weekly News Digest, 8 August 2005
August 8 amp In addition to this weeks NewsBreak the editors have picked these stories from the week just past as ones you should know about Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today
LexisNexis AlaCarte Gains Video Clips
LexisNexis and Critical Mention Inc announced an alliance to deliver searchable video and print news clips via LexisNexis AlaCarte httpwwwlexisnexiscom47alacartenow a payasyougo online solution for small to mediumsized businesses and independent professionals In late summer of this year LexisNexis AlaCarte...
Microsoft acquires Internet voice startup - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
Microsoft Corp said Tuesday it had acquired Teleo Inc a small San Francisco startup whose software lets people make calls from computers to traditional telephones
The deal for privately held Teleo which closed Monday could allow Redmondbased Microsoft to gain a competitive edge in the growing market for Internetbased calling services Terms were not disclosed is a Microsoft joint venture
Microsoft already uses Voice over Internet Protocol Vo technology in some products including its instantmessaging program...