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BETHPAGE, N.Y., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- On January 7, 2013, a capacity crowd of administrators and officials from schools, universities, hospitals, and local corporations attended the Active Shooter Seminar at Adelphi University hosted by Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and the Nassau County Police Department. The Newtown tragedy has brought new awareness to the reality of an active shooter situation and while the hope is to never have to face such an incident,...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Attensity, the leading provider of enterprise social analytics and engagement applications for Social CRM, today announced its position as a "Victor" in the Go-to-Market Strength category of Hurwitz and Associates' Victory Index Report for Text Analytics. This market research assessment tool analyzes the technical capability and tangible business value of the technologies offered by leading vendors in the text analytics space. (Logo:...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online On October 14, 2011, millions of people eagerly waited for their delivery driver to drop off a very special package. For these early-adopting iPhone 4S fans, there were two features to try out immediately: The new 8-megapixel camera and that brand new intelligent voice assistant, Siri. Within hours, people were posting screenshots of Siri’s responses to their questions, both common and nonsensical alike. According to a story in...
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amiigo, a Salt Lake City start-up, has developed a new device for gesture recognition and fitness tracking. Simply put, Amiigo has created a bracelet that uses accelerometers and machine learning algorithms to automatically identify and track specific exercises. For example, the Amiigo device knows if users are using the elliptical trainer vs the treadmill, or doing bicep curls, swimming, cycling, etc. Amiigo can also track...
MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software and professional services, today announced enhancements to its Certified Partner Program. Introducing bronze, silver and gold partner tiers, the updated partner program provides greater rewards to value-added reseller (VAR) partners who have demonstrated a commitment to ABBYY products. Among other benefits, high-performing resellers will be able...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online During the era of Jobs, Apple took enormous pride in their smoky thick shroud of secrecy, shutting down blogs which wrote about future products and sending San Francisco PD to search for missing iPhone prototypes. Apple’s current CEO Tim Cook has said he plans to “double down” on secrecy, yet so far this seems like an empty promise. For all the secrecy which surrounds Apple, there is still one way in which Apple watchers can...
PARIS, January 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TEMIS, the leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions, is pleased to announce that the Luxid(R) Community Platform will be going into open beta this month. The Luxid(R) Community Platform is an online collaboration platform where semantic content enrichment practitioners can meet their peers, exchange best practices, share information extraction components and accelerate their projects. TEMIS will unveil the Luxid(R)...
MADRID, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) category has been granted in this fifth edition to the electrical engineer Lotfi A. Zadeh, "for the invention and development of fuzzy logic." This "revolutionary" breakthrough, affirms the jury in its citation, has enabled machines to work with imprecise concepts, in the same way humans do, and thus secure more efficient results more...
[Watch Video: IllumiRoom Projects Images Beyond Your TV] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Despite a physical absence, Microsoft still was able to somehow manage to show up through the avatar of Samsung here at the 2013 International CES, unveiling some new technology for its Xbox system. Microsoft used Samsung's Keynote to demonstrate the new technology "IllumiRoom" at CES through a video. This device apparently is a way to try and help gamers immerse...
BOSTON, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Light's (www.northernlight.com) "meaning extraction" facility for automatically analyzing concepts within research literature is the enabling technology behind a newly published journal paper that assesses 30 years of research into information technology (IT) innovation adoption by enterprises. The article, entitled "IT Innovation Adoption by Enterprises: Knowledge Discovery through Text Analytics", is being published in the January...
