Now, green software that uses facial detection for energy savings

March 4th, 2009 When you and we are talking so much about the need of green gadgets and how it can be achieved, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the best platform to voice his concerns about global warming and how we should really focus on the green gadgets at the world's largest technology trade show in Hannover this week.

April 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a device that will put computers in a doze, which could mean energy savings of 60 to 80 per cent. The experts have developed a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." Normally PCs can be in either awake mode-where they consume power even if they are not being used, or in a low power sleep mode-where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic.

July 21st, 2006 Biometric security systems using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition have started to become mainstream. They are very likely to be common within a few years.

July 2nd, 2009 SHANGHAI - Under the controversial Green Dam computer program, China has already installed censorship software in over half-a-million computers. According to a report in The Telegraph, the Green Dam program has been downloaded three million times since the end of March and has been installed on 518,000 computers.

July 21st, 2006 Austin Energy isn't using any business process management (BPM) suite, but it is realizing business process improvements as part of its enterprisewide service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative. Two years in the making, the SOA initiative is helping the $1 billion electric utility integrate and leverage disparate legacy systems.

February 18th, 2009 Its good to be different and stand out from the rest. But when its about good will and making life easier, that very concept can boomerang you to snobbishness.

August 13th, 2009 BEIJING - China's Industry and Information Technology Minister Li Yizhong has said that the "Green Dam Youth Escort" software would now be "voluntary", providing users an opportunity to decide if they want to install it or not. "When users buy computers, they will be provided the software disk.

August 14th, 2009 BEIJING - A senior Chinese government official has said that the implementation of the "Green Dam Youth Escort" software, which filters online pornographic, was "not thoughtful enough". The government had demanded in May, through a directive issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), that all personal computer manufacturers should ensure that the filtering software was included with all computers sold in China by July 1.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A cutting-edge face recognition software could revolutionize security systems, especially if it can see through disguises, according to the latest research. Every face has special features that define that person, yet faces can also be very similar, explained Lin Huang from Florida Atlantic University (FLA), in Boca Raton.

November 7th, 2005 It seems too good to be true. A new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste and goes against quantum mechanics theory.

December 16th, 2005 Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands tested emotion-recognition software on Monalisa's smile. Why am I unhappy about it? His algorithm examines key facial features such as the curvature of the lips and crinkles around the eyes, then scores each face with respect to six basic emotions.

July 2nd, 2009 PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in ChinaBEIJING — Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory. Beijing's decision this week to delay the requirement that the filtering software — known as Green Dam — be pre-installed or supplied on disk with all computers sold in China averted a possible trade clash with the United States and Europe.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Chinese Government has delayed the mandatory installation of the controversial "Green Dam-Youth Escort" filtering software on new computers that was scheduled to start today. The software is designed to block violence and pornographic content on the Internet to protect minors, but users have repeatedly raised concerns about invasion of privacy.

June 13th, 2009 Company alleges Chinese software has stolen code SAN FRANCISCO — A California company claims that the Internet-filtering software China has mandated for all new personal computers sold there contains stolen programming code. Solid Oak Software of Santa Barbara said Friday that parts of its filtering software, which is designed for parents, are being used in the "Green Dam-Youth Escort" filtering software that must be packaged with all computers sold in China from July 1.

June 19th, 2006 XBox 360 consumes 145 Watts simply turned on. Compare that with 4W for Playstation 1.