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...same way that Apple's Macintosh created a graphic user interface, GUI (pronounced goo-ey), that made it easy for ordinary mortals to use personal computers, Land has laid claim to what he unabashedly calls a VUI (voo-ey), or vocal user interface. The idea is that companies need an idiot-proof building-block system to assemble easy-to-use services with which customers feel comfortable. "All business is vocal," Land likes...
VoiceObjects' claim to fame is not that it has reinvented voice-recognition applications but that the company has found a way to make voice applications easy to construct and easy to use. "We're like Henry Ford," says Land. "Ford didn't invent the automobile. He developed the assembly line, and that made the automobile affordable and accessible to a mass market...
...exchange for 10 extra years in an old people's home," read one. "If we listened to these scientists we would all be like supermodels eating a lettuce leaf for dinner," scoffed another wit. A couple of entries inevitably referenced the old debauchees that so many of us claim to have heard about but hardly anyone has met: "Can we have a study to find out why some people spend their lives doing everything that is supposed to be bad for them and yet still live until they're ninety...
...Xiantang's residents claim officials cheated them by dealing land rights to their fields to property developers without adequately compensating farmers. "They sold our land and made money off it," says one resident, "but they gave us nothing." More than 2,000 villagers signed a petition accusing top local official Lai Zhenchang of masterminding the scheme. Officials used the proceeds to refurbish their homes and send their children to study overseas, villagers say; farmers were offered $8 a month each in compensation. (The Foshan city government, which has supervisory authority over Xiantang, did not respond to requests for comment...
...doing what it has been doing but with fewer people, a greater impact and higher standards. Quality is the key, whether it's straight news or comedy that spills out of a character's absurdly tight latex outfit. It's the only way the Beeb can bear out this claim by Byford: "The BBC is here to make the world a better place." Perhaps it has to start at home...