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Nuance to team up with Nokia

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Press release from Nuance:
Nuance Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Nokia, Spanning Advanced Input Technologies and Open Development Framework
And related piece in SpeechTech magazine:
Nuance, Nokia Strike a Partnership Deal
MocoNews has an interesting piece about it:
Nokia Picks Nuance For Speech Recognition And More; Will Open Up Technologies To Developers
What will this all mean for Nuance’s speech technology input […]

Nokia Buys Symbian, forms Symbian Foundation

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

News just in yesterday.

Report at Reuters.
Symbian Foundation website.

There’s a pie chart in yesterday’s FT showing smartphone operating system market share. Here it is again via Google’s Chart API.

Nokia intends to open source all of the Symbian code by 2010. This will include S60, UIQ, and MOAP.
Earlier this month the EU approved Nokia’s buying […]

Assisted Living SIG Launch and Innovation Platform Roadmap

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Radisson SAS Birmingham
Ths 120707
Executive summary
Two useful contacts:

h2m8
Health design & technology institute

One learning point:

Make sure you broadcast your own messages, and meet your own objectives.

Agenda
(Stripped of ‘Welcome’, breaks, lunch, etc.)
1030
The Assisted Living Special Interest Group
Sue Dunkerton, Health Technologies KTN
1050
The Assisted Living Innovation Platform
Graham Worsley, TSB
1110
The draft road map
Rob Chesters, Medilink West Midlands
1130
Building a new road […]

Knowledge Transfer Networks

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

KTN Central has links to all the KTNs and some general information, like what KTNs are and what they do. Rather than just paraphrase all that here, I’ll report what actually happens in practice. I’ve joined two KTNs:

Industrial Mathematics
Health Technologies

I’ve also registered to attend a couple of events at i-Health, a three-day […]

OpTIC Technium

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Further to my earlier post, here are a few points about OpTIC you won’t find on their own website:

It was designed and completed in 2004 by Capita Percy Thomas, who also designed the Wales Millennium Centre.
It won two awards in 2005: Building Magazine’s Sustainable Building of the Year, and RICS Wales Building of the Year.
That […]

OpTIC Technium: Collaborative Research and Development Funding Event

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Collaborative Research and Development Funding Event
OpTIC Technium, St. Asaph (Llanelwy)
Weds 130607
Agenda
Apart from registration, ‘welcome’, coffee and lunch breaks, and general milling about (I mean ‘networking’), the day was broken down like this:
Morning: an hour long presentation, followed by one or two short case studies, on each of the following:

Seventh European Framework Programme (FP7)
DTI Collaborative Research […]