Police tap into wireless world for high tech crime fighting
LA area police adopt handhelds and wireless tools to aid undercover work. Detective Solinsky used a Palm 4 with a wireless modem to verify a stolen car door link and track suspects, illustrating how portable devices speed access to databases and interagency data during investigations. The shift sparks debate over privacy and potential bias in future expansive data networks.
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AT&T unveils Natural Voices text to speech system
New AT&T Labs technology can convert emails and text into human like speech for call centers auto pilots and ads. The system uses custom fonts modeled on real voices and costs 200000 to create with licensing options reaching 750000 for 1000 connections.
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Mac Phobias and Defrag Daze in Tech Column Q and A
Reader asks about Mac firewall options and staying safe online on Mac systems. The column notes Apple market share under 10 percent and covers Norton Personal Firewall for Mac and Open Doors Door Stop, plus general firewall guidance.
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Sanyo SCP-6000 Slim Phone Packs Light, Thin Profile
The Sanyo SCP-6000, $199 from Sprint PCS, surpasses the ThinPhone with a one inch thickness and 2.3 ounce weight. It offers two hours and 15 minutes talk time, a tradeoff for its ultra thin design, as reviewers note in comparing it to Kyocera and Nokia models.
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Sanyo SCP 6000 Battery Boosts Talk Time Costs Thickness
The Sanyo SCP 6000 offers a larger 59.99 dollar battery doubling talk time but adds thickness. At five inches long and 1.5 inches wide it remains pocket friendly compared to ThinPhone and Nokia models. It features a large screen for 20 photo storage and caller ID, a 300 entry phone book with voice dialing, and a month at a glance calendar. A PC calendar sync remains unavailable, though Motorola and Nextel plan a Java sync app, while a future i85s attachment may ease typing on the keypad.
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Expandable add on cards boost PCs with USB Firewire options
The article reviews expansion cards from Keyspan Belkin and others enabling USB 2.0 Firewire and similar interfaces for PCs and Macintosh. It notes four port hubs creating extra connections and the potential to extend reach for near-desktop devices, with prices from about 49.95 to 249.95 and speeds toward 850 MHz. It also cautions on BIOS install steps and notes some TM system compatibility issues.
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Titans of cyberspace end long truce AOL and Microsoft clash
AOL Time Warner and Microsoft face a heated struggle for dominance in music sales digital image processing and vacation planning as analysts warn the two tech giants aim to outpace each other. The battle centers on services like username registration password management and identity tracking in a broader push to control next generation online offerings.
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