BANGALORE, Sept 28 - Speech recognition technology, mostly used by the medical transcriptions industry, is slowly making its way into mobile phones, music players and navigation devices. The big question, however, is whether the technology...
NEW YORK, Sept 25 - Got bad news? It pays to relegate it in a footnote of the press release. Companies that are forthright about bad news end up paying for it more than those...
Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it will launch a $100m global brand campaign to project an image of being at the center of people's online lives. "Our vision is to be at the center of people's online lives -- to be at the place where their world meets the larger world," a press release from Yahoo quot...
* CAN WASHINGTON EMBRACE FRUGALITY? As consumers have cut back, government spending has taken its place. The White House expects the budget deficit for this fiscal year to reach 11.2 percent of gross domestic product....
FRANKFURT, Sept 21 - European Central Bank policymakers are dismissing the "output gap" as an unreliable measure of slack in the economy, but they can't ignore it entirely for when the time comes to tighten...
MUMBAI, Sept 21 - When Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest IT firm, hired paramilitary troops to protect its sprawling headquarters in Bangalore, some observers might have thought they had gone overboard. But since the Mumbai attacks...
In the war to win clicks on the Web, a critic of Google is a friend of Yahoo!--even, it seems, when that friend is a critic of Yahoo!, too.
* Bullish on '09 earnings, portolio trading helps * But sees lower market share in 2009 (Adds details, share prices) BANGKOK, Sept 17 - Thailand's Phatra Securities said on Thursday it was becoming more bullish...
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has launched the Arabic version of its corporate website.
China loosens 12pm-or-else hotel checkout policy By Wang Xinyuan The China Travel and Hotel Association (CTHA) posted a press release on its website Friday officially revising its rigid checkout policy. Now instead charging guests a half-day rate if they check out after 12pm, hotels are free to s...