More DSL flavours than colours of the rainbow. Tim Dean breaks some of the acronyms apart.

Just a couple of years ago, the PC speech recognition and dictation market saw four key players jostling for position, but today the contest is just between IBM and one other player, Dragon.

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Features voice recording and an FM tuner. The device can be fiddly to operate, and the LCD screen doesn't display any track information other than the title. There is no playlist management, and no directory structure for your tracks. Voice recording allows the sampling rate to be set up to 48,000Hz.

In a country full of people obsessed with their mobile telephones, it isn't surprising that an Israeli company has developed a system that allows you to get all your email and telephone messages in on

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This player has its own speaker which would be handy for instant playback of voice recordings. There is 128MB storage on board, with a MMC card slot, located in the battery compartment. The headphones clip over your ear, and are quite comfortable to wear.

The JNC has a reasonable range of features, including FM radio and voice recording, although no capacity for storage expansion. It can be also used as removable storage, for any file type. The software includes a simple tool to format the device, a firmware upgrade utility and RealOne Player Gold. There is no support for playlists, however, unless created within the player itself.

Correct implementation vital to success, warns analyst.

Internet connectivity is almost essential these days. However, with the increasing number of high-speed, always-on connections, such as ADSL and cable modem, the choice of connection has become quite

So I thought I'd use today's Weblog to push a personal agenda, but hey, I have a voice, and I figure I should use it the best way I can. As it happens, there is also a tech angle, so I reckon I might just get away with it...

When Sony released its first 'Walkman' back in 1979 the feature it pushed most was 'pocket-sized'.

VoIP, messaging, video and GPS coming to the console.

Short messaging service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS) and wireless IP data and content will drive a growth in Australian mobile phone users by 2007, according to research firm IDC.

Cohen is in his early 70s and looks every bit the successful artist - grey hair pulled back into a short ponytail, sweatshirt and chinos. Only the voice is a surprise - halfway between cockney and Cal

Telstra has had the role of providing the network infrastructure that is coping with both the Australian end of the site traffic and providing 155Mb capacity fibre optic links between the IBM LANs at

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Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.