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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...
...artist. The warnets provide an anonymous way to go online, and they are cheap at 30[cents] an hour. The hackers start by firing up an Internet Relay Chat program--software that connects them to a worldwide network of chat rooms. The next step is to make up a user name and find a chat room dedicated to credit-card fraud. There Sweetnurse verifies credit-card numbers--even numbers picked at random--to determine their credit limits and expiration dates, using the same types of automated programs deployed by credit-card companies and banks for that purpose. He jots down...
...world’s greatest technologies, in that it is a technology that doesn’t change,” says Verba. Darnton echoes his sentiments, saying, “you can leaf through them, you can do all kinds of things; they’re much more user-friendly than digitized [material], and scrolling.”“I think publishers and authors can make their books known by making them accessible online,” Darnton continues. “Then the reader will go and buy them if the reader likes the book...
With his stolen base in Game Two, Ellsbury won every American a free taco from Taco Bell—earning him the nickname of “Tacoby Bellsbury” by Boston.com user Jeff Dockum—and said tacos could be claimed yesterday between...
...humorous potential to focus on emotive passages that seem silly within its walls. Coupland has created the archetypes of society’s endgame, but instead of bringing them back to the living with his trademark wit, he terminates them with all the passion of a Xerox user manual.“The Gum Thief” may have been Coupland’s play for postmodern literary power, an ill-conceived appeal to critics to see him as more than a pop-culture reference point. It may never have occurred to him that “JPod?...