Business - Los Angeles Times - 2010-03-10 00:02:09.
Need a translation? Google awaits your call
The Internet giant has applied its muscle to a phone application that can 'listen' to speech and provide translations in a computerized voice for English, Mandarin and Japanese.
Whether it's C-3PO, the fastidious Star Wars droid fluent in 6 million languages, or Star Trek's invisible but convenient "universal translator," the miracle interpreter has been a favorite device of science fiction.
Business - Los Angeles Times - 2010-03-10 00:02:09.
LifeLock settles FTC and state allegations that it misled consumers
The company agrees to pay $12 million and to tone down claims about the effectiveness of its identity-theft protection service.
Its chief executive prominently displays his Social Security number in ads for his identity-theft protection company. But LifeLock Inc. couldn't protect customers from the company's own misleading advertising, according to state and federal authorities.
Business - Los Angeles Times.
Runaway film production is the star of this movie
In a North Hollywood studio, actor Jack McGee is stripped down to his boxers, his legs duct-taped to a chair in a room draped in plastic sheets. He's not playing his best-known role of Chief Jerry Reilly in the TV series "Rescue Me" but the unlucky owner of a nightclub, sweating profusely as a mobster and his goons threaten to cut off his legs with a chain saw.
U.S. - Mercury News.
Israel announces 1,600 new homes
Move to add units surprises Israeli prime minister
U.S. - Mercury News.
Tom Campbell letter stokes controversy over ties to jihadist
A letter the former congressman penned in 2002 defending a man who later pleaded guilty to aiding terrorists is hurting his bid for U.S. Senate.
U.S. - Mercury News.
New national math, English standards drafted
Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards today as draft new national guidelines were released.
