Text-based Braille browser will enable
the blind
to do all the good things people use the Internet for
A team of computer engineering
majors, just graduated on March 29 from the Ateneo de
Manila University, has developed a system to enable the blind to use
computers to become Braille-literate and fully utilize the Internet
the way other people do.
The Ateneo Braille System, as it
is tentatively called, started beta testing on March 5. If hopes of
its four-woman team of developers and faculty adviser are realized,
it could be commercialized within 2009.
Government and private institutions are looking more
seriously into Information Technology (IT)—and more significantly,
on how they can keep up with it.
NEC Computers (NEC) introduced the new NEC POWERMATE
P3020, merging sophistication in technology and fashionable
lifestyle into home audio-video entertainment.
The Asus Xonar D2/PM 7.1 PCI
sound card comes complete with Dolby/DTS sound technologies with
signal-to-noise ratio of 118db audio quality. The card’s
high-definition audio processing, rated at 192KHz/24Bit...
NEO recently announced the
availability of the first locally branded, Internet-centric netbook
PC called the NEO eXplore X1, The new Intel-powered portable
computing device, based on the Intel classmate PC
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