Matthew Hicks

SAN FRANCISCO— IBM on Tuesday launched a series of upgrades to its speech technology offerings and announced plans to support Linux in its speech server software during the first day of the AVIOS SpeechTEK Spring 2004 show here. IBM plans to add Linux in the second quarter as one of the supported operating systems for […]

SAN FRANCISCO—With Microsoft Corp. poised on Wednesday to formally launch its Speech Server 2004 during a trio of conferences here, its partners are preparing announcements on a range of new speech applications to run on the platform. ScanSoft Inc. will launch on Wednesday a speech-enabled change-of-address application, while Pronexus Inc. will announce an application for […]

Cisco Systems Inc. has brought together eight years of its work on internal streaming media and video on demand in a new product offering for enterprises wanting to broadcast video over IP networks. The San Jose, Calif., company on Tuesday launched its Business Video Solution. The package combines Ciscos routers and switches for managing IP […]

Terra Lycos HotBot search site on Monday launched a search toolbar that includes the ability to search local hard-drive content and to read RSS feeds. The HotBot Desktop, a free download available now, includes the typical search toolbar features such as a search query box and pop-up ad blocker. But unlike most others, it also […]

When European Union regulators rule this week in their antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., their decision will do more than possibly force the software maker to offer Windows without a bundled multimedia player. It appears likely to set a precedent for when and where Microsoft can integrate other software into the operating system and also […]

Yahoo Inc. continued its rollout of search services since dropping Google Inc.s results with an announcement Friday of a revamped search index for news content. Yahoo of Sunnyvale, Calif., has switched its news search to an index that combines content from its 100 news partners with 7,000 sources from the Web. The index marks a […]

Microsoft Corp. next week will announce a series of changes to its MSN Search site that further separate paid search listings from Web results. The companys MSN group plans to launch the changes on July 1. MSN Search will place fewer sponsored link ads at the top of search results to ensure that non-paid Web […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The SCO Group Inc.s lawsuits against Linux are a harbinger of the litigation likely to come as business interests seek to capitalize on the growth of open-source software, legal panelists said here Wednesday at the Open Source Business Conference 2004. “There will be a wave of a number of lawsuits on open source simply […]

Nuance Communications Inc. on Tuesday launched the next major release of its speech recognition and application platform, one week ahead of a major speech conference expected to herald a competitive turning point in the industry. Nuance released Nuance Voice Platform 3.0, which includes expanded speech application development tools and incorporates a revamped speech-recognition engine. Nuance, […]

Google Inc. has set its local search features free from its research labs, allowing users to retrieve geographically specific search results both from its home page and from a new beta Google Local search site. Google of Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday launched the public beta of its local search features. Google is drawing results […]