Yahoo! Babel Fish

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Feb 8, 2011	Google Translate: You speak the words, your iPhone translates	One of my great regrets in life is failing to become fluent in another language. My only consolation was that I figured, someday, someone in Silicon Valley would create a universal translator, like Douglas Adams’ Babel fish in the Hitchhike...
Dec 31, 2009	Apple Reveals New 3D Remote and Possible New iWork Application Categories Search	Apple TV Working with Illustration App The interesting aspect of Apple's illustration application example shown below is that it could in fact be actually illustrating a new iLife or iWork application in the works. That by itself would...
Dec 29, 2009	Apple Reveals Push Button Antenna that may Point to Cable TV Content Categories Search	Push Button Close-Up A portion of illustrative button antenna 14 is shown in Apple's patent FIG. 5. As shown in FIG. 5, button antenna 14 may be formed from a button member 52. Button member 52 may be formed from plastics such as polyc...
Dec 29, 2009	Apple Wins 11 Patent Designs for MacBook Pro, Expose, iPod Classic, More Categories Search	Industrial Design Wins Apple's iPhone Cover Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas S...
Dec 24, 2009	Apple Reveals Advanced Multi-Touch Technology, Cryptography & New Earbud System Patents Categories Search	A Patent Relating to Apple's Advanced Media Player Touch Screens Apple's patent generally relates to input devices for computing systems, and more particularly, to a touch sensor panel capable of being fabricated on a single side ...
Dec 22, 2009	Apple Wins Patents for iDVD, a Universal USB Connector, More Categories Search	Granted Patent: iDVD Apple's patent generally relates to all things iDVD – an application within their iLife software suite which accompanies all new Apple desktop and notebook computers. With iDVD, you could create your own DVD in les...
Dec 17, 2009	Apple Preparing OS X for New High End 3D Interface Categories Search	New 3D Interface System Apple's patent FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an electronic device that may include a display, a sensing mechanism (104) and control circuitry (110). It may also include communications circuitry and/or other comp...
Dec 17, 2009	Apple Introduces a Unique Music Playback Control Form Categories Search	The iTunes Music Form: Simply Intelligent Apple's patent FIG. 8 shown below, is a schematic display of an illustrative data structure. The data structure could be organized into a table having rows and columns. Each column in the data ...
Dec 15, 2009	Apple Wins Major Patents for Advanced Sensory Technology, EMI, a One-Piece iPod Connector, More Categories Search	Granted Patent: Automated Response to and Sensing of user Activity in Portable Devices Apple's granted patent relates to the field of portable devices and, in particular, to systems and methods for sensing or determining user activitie...
Dec 15, 2009	A Future iPhone will Control Your Desktop Remotely Categories Search	Remote Control of Electronic Devices Apple's patent FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of an exemplary process 100 for remote control of electronic devices. The steps of process 100 do not have to occur in any specific order, and at least some s...
Dec 15, 2009	Apple's iPhone to Gain Native vCard Solution for SMS Categories Search	Patent Background The mobile device is becoming increasingly ubiquitous as a communication tool. In addition to its use as a cell phone, the mobile device is often used for other forms of communication including email, text messaging and th...
Dec 11, 2009	Apple Trademarks Grand Central Dispatch Categories Search	USPTO Data Apple claims Priority based on foreign filing: Applicant has a bona fide intention to use the mark in commerce on or in connection with the identified goods and/or services and asserts a claim of priority based on Canada applicat...
Dec 10, 2009	Apple Patent Reveals New Revolutionary iPod/iPhone Universal Dock Categories Search	Apple's All New Universal Dock Apple's patent FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a universal dock in accordance with some embodiments of the invention. Universal dock (100) may include housing (110), support layer (120), connector...
Dec 10, 2009	Apple Thinks Different with Acceleration Navigation for iPod/iPhone Categories Search	New Acceleration Navigation Feature & Accessory At the heart of this patent, we see that Apple is considering implementing a secondary navigation system for future media players. In addition, Apple will also allow users to breathe new l...
Dec 10, 2009	Apple Files for Trademark: There's an App for That Categories Search	International Classes Detailed in Today's Trademark Application International Class 009: Handheld mobile digital electronic devices for the sending and receiving of telephone calls, electronic mail, and other digital data, for use as a...
Dec 8, 2009	Apple Wins Strategic Patents for QuickTime VR and iPhoto Categories Search	Apple Granted Patent: iPhoto With traditional amateur film photography, the process often ended after a film roll has been developed and returned to the photographer. The photographer obtained the developed photographs in an envelope and re...
Dec 8, 2009	Apple Resurrects 'Think Different' Trademark Categories Search	Macintosh – Think Different Apple's most current specimen and the one associated with their application is shown below. It appears to be packaging of some kind taped to something like a newspaper clipping. Has this even been published ...
Dec 3, 2009	Apple Media Players to Gain New Creative Indicators Categories Search	Apple to Offer Multiple Themes for Error Indicators Apple's patent goes one step further in clarifying that the error indicators will be available in themes that the user could chose. A theme of one such set may be relatively "ser...
Dec 1, 2009	Apple Wins Patents for iMac, Major Sporting Event Systems & Devices yet to Surface Categories Search	Granted Patent: Media Player System The main focus of Apple's granted patent relates to the iPod's connectivity assembly and docking station. Another aspect of the patent covers Apple's wireless connectivity which would cover...
Nov 30, 2009	Apple Acquires a Key Trademark: TabletMac Categories Search	USPTO Document: 2008 Registered Trademark TabletMac Assigned to AxioTron, Inc. USPTO Document: New 2009 TabletMac Principal Register – Apple Inc. USPTO Document: Post Registration Office Action USPTO Document: Revocation of Attorney Apple&#...
Nov 26, 2009	Apple Plans Touch Based Graphic Equalizer for Media Players Categories Search	Media Player Graphic Equalizer Apple's patent FIG. 2A is an illustration of graphic equalizer 200 that may be implemented using media player 270 in one embodiment according to the present invention. In this example, graphic equalizer 2...
Nov 24, 2009	Apple Wins Patents for Nike + iPod, Stereo Headset, Virtual Keyboard, Camera & Multi-Touch Technologies Categories Search	Granted Patent: The Antennas for the Nike + iPod (For iPod & Shoe) In a recent Robert X. Cringely report he stated that "Apple files for a lot of patents that may or may not find their way into products. Over the past three years, ...
Nov 24, 2009	Apple Wins 4 Industrial Design Patents Covering the iPod nano, LED Cinema Display, MacBook Air SuperDrive & Keyboard with Number Keypad Categories Search	Industrial Design Win: LED Cinema Display Apple has been granted a patent for the industrial design of their LED Cinema Display. Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Dun...
Nov 19, 2009	Apple Introduces New Athletic Sensory Technologies & Devices in Development Categories Search	Patent Background An increasing number of people are exercising to the beat of their favorite songs. Often, the songs are stored on a portable media player strapped to a user's arm so that the user would not need to carry the portable ...
Nov 19, 2009	Apple Reveals a New GUI System for In-Car Infotainment Systems Categories Search	New System Overview Some remote control devices provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and allow the user to perform more advanced functions such as browsing a database of stored content, selecting content to play, etc. For instance, John...
Nov 18, 2009	Apple Wins Hot Virtual Keyboard Patent with Many Interesting Twists Categories Search	Virtual Keyboard for Large Surfaces The key to this patent is that it presents us with a system to integrate multiple types of manual input into a given surface large enough to accommodate typing, multiple degree-of-freedom manipulation and...
Nov 17, 2009	Apple's Fanatical Design Team Racks up Big Wins for Notebooks & More Categories Search	Industrial Design Win: Apple MacBook Pro Apple has been granted two industrial design patents for their MacBook Pro. Apple's legendary attention to design detailing borders on the fanatical - as Jonathan Ive so passionately loves to co...
Nov 12, 2009	Apple Files Tablet Computer Patent for Handwriting & Forms Categories Search	A Pen-Based Tablet The present invention relates generally to the field of computers, and more specifically, to an ink manager for acquiring and organizing pen-based ink information for use by pen-aware and other applications. The present i...
Nov 12, 2009	Apple Reveals New iPhone Security Patents Categories Search	Background Authentication is often used in conjunction with cryptography. Cryptography is the traditional method of protecting data. Cryptography protects communications between two mutually trusting parties from thievery or hackers by atta...
Nov 10, 2009	Apple Wins Patents for iPod Illumination System, Macroscalar Processor Architecture & Airport Extreme Categories Search	Granted Patent: Handheld Devices as Visual Indicators Apple's granted patent generally relates to their portable hand held computing devices such as the iPod and iPhone utilizing a backlit display as a visual indicator. In the broader ...
Nov 5, 2009	New Magic Mouse Secrets Revealed in Apple Patent Categories Search	Jonathan Ive on Apple's Magic Mouse Jonathan Ive: When you first see the mouse, it could not be any simpler. But I love the way it scales from being something that is that apparently simple to actually being really remarkably sophistic...
Nov 5, 2009	Apple Developing 'Grab & Go' Application for Life in the Fast Lane Categories Search	Overview Apple thinks that many people use more than one electronic device from day to day, but transferring data from one device to another may be onerous. For example, a person may want to take an online map found on a home computer with ...
Nov 3, 2009	Apple Trademarks iTunes Extras Categories Search	International Classes Detailed in Today's Trademark Application International Class 009: Computer software for use in authoring, downloading, transmitting, receiving, editing, extracting, encoding, decoding, playing, storing and organi...
Nov 3, 2009	Apple Trademarks iTunes LP Categories Search	Apple's iTunes LP Promo Video For more information on this topic, check out Ashley3G's iTunes Overview video. International Classes Detailed in Today's Trademark Application International Class 009: Computer software for use ...
Nov 3, 2009	Apple Wins Key iPhone Virtual Keyboard Patent, More Categories Search	Granted Patent: iPhone, iPod Touch Virtual Keyboard Technology Apple's patent generally relates to touch screen user interfaces and, in particular, it relates to the operation of a computer based on interaction by a user with a virtual...
Oct 30, 2009	Apple's U.S. Trademark for Magic Mouse Revealed Categories Search	The Technology behind Apple's new Magic Mouse was first published in a 2008 patent. This very patent revealed that Apple may indeed have other features for this mouse at some future point in time. To get a decent hands-on perspective o...
Oct 29, 2009	Future Apple iPod Touch to Have Ejectable Component Assembly Categories Search	Apple's patent FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an illustrative ejectable component assembly when a tray is partially inserted in an electronic device in accordance with some embodiments of the invention. Although the focus of the paten...
Oct 27, 2009	Apple Wins Major Patents for Final Cut Pro, GarageBand, OS X, More Categories Search	Apple Wins Patent for Final Cut Pro Apple's patent is directed towards a method and apparatus for reducing data events that represent a user's interaction with a control interface. Some embodiments of the invention provide a metho...
Oct 22, 2009	Apple Prepares to Rock the Market with Hardware Subsidizing Program Categories Search	Advertising Architecture Apple's patent FIG. 1 noted above is that of a block diagram of an exemplary architecture 100 (e.g., a hardware architecture) for presenting advertisements. An advertisement is defined as being one of the follo...
Oct 20, 2009	Apple Wins Crucial iPhone Encryption & WebObjects Patents Categories Search	Apple's iPhone 3G-S Encryption Apple's patent and embodiments generally relate to asymmetric cryptography and in particular to small memory implementations of fast elliptic encryption (FEE). Since the advent of public-key cryptogr...
Oct 15, 2009	Apple Files Two Major Security Patents to Combat Identity Theft, More Categories Search	Background Overview As more and more computing devices are being used in people's daily life, security has become a widespread concern for users and content providers. Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, identity theft, software and media c...
Oct 15, 2009	Apple Patent Advances MobileMe to the Next Level Categories Search	A Distributed Content Viewing Environment Example Today MobileMe promotes itself as pushing email, contacts and calendar: Everything in sync. Anywhere you are. This patent implies that MobileMe is being prepared to expand into more media ty...
Oct 14, 2009	Apple Updates OpenCL Trademark Categories Search	OpenCL Side Notes As a side note, it should be noted that during Intel's IDF keynote by Renee James last month, it was announced that OpenCL was being incorporated right into Larrabee's new 2009 tools alongside OpenGL. Additionall...
Oct 13, 2009	Apple Wins Major Patents for iPhone 3G, iPod Touch & Soft Keyboard Categories Search	Industrial Design Wins Apple's iPhone 3G Apple credits CEO Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard Howarth, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Sa...
Oct 8, 2009	New iPhone Patents Cover Enhanced Audio & Software Verification System Categories Search	Apple's iPhone Multiband Audio Compressor Apple's patent generally relates to the iPhone having a built-in processor for enhancing an audio signal. Specifically, the patent relates to the iPhone having an uplink or downlink audio ...
Oct 7, 2009	Apple Marketing Updates App Store Trademark to Cover e-Books Categories Search	International Classes Detailed in Today's Trademark Application Specifically, Apple has added seven International Classes relating to the App Store trademark upgrade. In March of 2008 the App Store had originally covered classes 035 re...
Oct 6, 2009	Apple Introduces Presence Detection for Notebooks, Desktops & TV Categories Search	The Emitter and Detector Your future Apple MacBook or iMac may employ a variety of radiation emissions to determine when you enter the hardware's field of detection and, in response your entrance, activate your hardware. This may prove...
Oct 6, 2009	Apple Wins Patents for a Mysterious New Tablet, Apple TV, more Categories Search	Industrial Design Wins Future iPhone/iPod touch or Mini Tablet Apple has been granted a design patent that is a bit of a mystery. Apple's patent figures are usually detailed enough to determine the difference between an iPhone and iPod...
Sep 22, 2009	Apple Gains Major Design Wins for MacBook Air, LED Cinema Display, more Categories Search	Industrial Design Win: MacBook Air Apple's CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air notebook during Macworld 2008. D600,688. NBC's Today Show co-host Meredith Viera said in jest when reviewing the new lusty MacBook Air, that if y...
Sep 17, 2009	Apple Patent Explores Advancing iPod Classic Categories Search	Sensor Controller Apple's patent FIG. 4 illustrated below (click to enlarge), is an example of a process in which the sensor controller can switch a sensor configuration of its sensor elements. For example, the input device can operate...
Sep 17, 2009	Apple Reveals the MIPI Testing System behind the new iPod Nano Categories Search	Apple's Test System Apple's patent FIG. 2 shown below is that of an illustrative test system that they've devised. In one example, the testing system may test a display for flicker and gamma performance, test the system for s...
Sep 15, 2009	Apple Wins 3G iPhone Design & iPhone Battery Audio Alert Patents Categories Search	Industrial Design Win for 3G iPhone Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christo...
Sep 15, 2009	Translator battles: Bing edges forward, Google pulls ahead	reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit News trickled out this month that Bing Translator had gained Thai support, meaning that users can translate to and from the...
Sep 10, 2009	Apple Patents Focus on Chinese iPhone Features Categories Search	Apple's engineer's state that "input methods for devices having multi-language environments can present unique challenges with respect to input and spelling correction which may need to be tailored to the selected language to...
Sep 8, 2009	Apple Wins Crucial iPhone Cryptography Patent Categories Search	Apple's iPhone Cryptography Technology Apple's granted patent generally relates to cryptography and in particular to the generation of secure random numbers for use in cryptographic systems found in smaller form factor devices suc...
Sep 1, 2009	Google Translate now supporting 51 languages	Afrikaans, Icelandic, Yiddish, and more added to Google’s comprehensive translation tool Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. Those are the nine new languages available for translating to a...
Aug 24, 2009	Entire German City Bans Hand Shaking	This no-hand shaking thing is really starting to get traction now. Since my rant in May we’ve seen startups ban the medieval practice at board meetings and mainstream press jump on board. And now a city in Germany, Würzburg, has apparently ...
Mar 17, 2009	Samsung’s Android phone spotted in blur-tastic slide photo?	Samsung’s first Android phone was apparently spotted “in a slide show presentation at a dealer event in Amsterdam,” according to Pocket Lint. Luckily one of the dealers present had the wherewithal to smear Vaseline all over the left side of...
Jun 26, 2008	Apple's Mighty Mouse to Incorporate Touch Pad Categories Search	The Advantages of the Touch Pad The advantages of the invention are numerous, according to Apple. One advantage of the invention is that it requires no obvious button to actuate a GUI movement. Buttons break the surface of the housing and a...
Apr 27, 2006	Yahoo Rolls Out Translation Services	Yahoo on Thursday introduced Babel Fish, using the same technologies that have been used by the version hosted on Alta Vista for almost a decade. The page, which looks much like Alta Vista's version, has been updated with some addition...
	Socialbel, a Torre de Babel social	Uma das coisas mais interessantes que a web permitiu foi o surgimento do crowdsourcing, ou seja, terceirizar o trabalho com a multidão. E um webapp chamado Socialbel utiliza exatamente este conceito aplicado à tradução de frases e palavras....

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