Oculus Rift Injected With $16 Million From Investors
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset burned through its Kickstarter campaign as nearly 10,000 eager gamers threw a collective $2.4 million at the company in hopes to begin...
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Leading online privacy companies come together to help consumers better secure their personal information and limit data collection BOSTON, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The uproar over the PRISM program has cast a negative light on the NSA and participating companies like Google and Apple, but it has resulted in significant growth for online privacy companies. As consumers have learned more about how private companies and public surveillance vacuum up much of their personal data,...
RFID Journal's ninth annual event will focus on helping health-care providers understand how the technology can help them improve patient safety, hospital operations and supply chain efficiencies NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RFID Journal announced today that registration is now open for RFID in Health Care (www.rfidjournalevents.com/healthcare), the premier industry event focused on the use of radio frequency identification technology within the health-care industry. The...
Maritime Ford to offer modified center stack in 2014 Ford vehicles MANITOWOC, Wis., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The MyFord Touch interface and Ford SYNC voice-recognition system have been driving forces behind the sales success and customer satisfaction of 2013 Ford models in Manitowoc, WI. Despite the overall success, Ford is listening to customer feedback to improve and evolve MyFord Touch. The response -- a humble step back to more dials, knobs, and buttons to control...
OULU, Finland, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Center for Internet Excellence announces results from pioneering research on 3D Internet The Center for Internet Excellence (CIE) announced results from the Chiru project, which focused on laying the groundwork for 3D Internet on mobile devices. The project found out that 3D presents significant opportunities to improve the way people interact with information, but moving to three...
As summer approaches, knowing how to monitor your online presence is more important than ever. Although it is not difficult to do so, it does require some commitment of time and effort. JW Maxx Solutions offers expert advice to those looking to track this critical aspect of a career or business. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- When considering how to monitor your online presence, the most important thing to consider is how people will access information about...
CHICAGO, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnilert, the leading provider of interactive mass communications and emergency notifications for mid-sized organizations, today announced over 100 new customers signing up with their Amerilert service in the past year. New customers include DuPont, Philips Medical Systems, and Wood-Mode, Inc. The company made the announcement during the 2013 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference and Expo in Chicago, June 16-19. Live...
New speech recognition solution outperforms its predecessor and is $100 off for a limited time. Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) June 17, 2013 The newest version of the most widely used and successful medical speech recognition software around the country, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2, is now available through YB Sales & Distributors, Inc. Nuance Communications made an official announcement on June 12th that the product would be available through its Value-Added Reseller network community....
LeadFerret, the free B2B data site, announced today the release of their fully searchable Directory of Professionals in the Retail Industry. Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2013 LeadFerret users already enjoy free access to over 15+ million business contacts with complete information, including email addresses, social media links, and a robust set of search tools. Today LeadFerret announced the release of a specialized directory of professionals who work in the retail industry, which...
RFID Journal's second Brazilian event will highlight how companies can benefit from RFID technologies today NEW YORK, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- RFID Journal announced today that registration is now open for RFID Journal LIVE! Brasil 2013 (www.rfidjournalevents.com/brasil), its second annual event in Brazil. The event, which will take place on Nov. 6-7, at Espaco APAS-Centro de Convencoes in Sao Paulo, Brasil, will focus on how radio frequency identification technologies can...
DEARBORN, Mich., June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SYNC(®) and MyFord Touch(®) sold on nearly 80 percent of 2013 Ford vehicles, double the sales mix of infotainment systems sold with Toyota and Honda vehicles, and up from 68 percent in 2012; MyFord Touch mix of 55 percent increased from 12 percent in 2012 Customers with vehicles equipped with MyFord Touch have a higher rate of satisfaction with overall vehicle quality for most models compared to those that do not have the advanced...
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The graphics tablet or digitizer is a device that lets the user input hand drawn images, graphics, text, or hand written signatures into a computer. This device may also be used to trace an image by securing it to the face of the device and tracing it onto the tablet. The device has a flat surface where the user draws or traces an image by using a pen-like drawing tool called a stylus. The image itself is usually not shown on the screen of the tablet, but displayed on the computer monitor...
A wiki is simply a website that allows the users to create and edit any number of interlinked web pages through a simplified markup language. They are often powered with wiki software and used to collaborative wiki websites, power community websites, for note taking, and in knowledge management systems. Some wikis serve specific purpose while others are more of an open content format. Wiki, meaning fast in Hawaiian, was first created by Ward Cunningham who developed WikiWikiWeb. Wikis...
