Christopher: This is the first year of our new Rent-A-Text program.
At the time, Google had four people working on AdWords, a program for selling the small text ads that appear next to related search results.
With the one mobile app you can control and check all your household sensors, or you can program Iris to send you text-message alerts when, say, your back door is open.
Instead, Facebook feeds any political commentary in status messages into a text analysis software program, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, which determines whether what you said was positive or negative.
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Another clue is Inkwell, a handwriting recognition program that turns handwritten squiggles into text.
This reviewer was admiring of it, and then tickled to notice that the publisher's spell-check software program had added nonsenses to the text (Peter Brought, for example, for Peter Brough).
The program detects the topic of a text and on that basis applies particular metrics to determine, say, if numbers are more important than descriptive words, and extracts critical sentences accordingly.
Relying on Docu-Scope, a visualization and text-tagging software program, Witmore and his across-the-pond colleague Jonathan Hope, a reader at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, discovered at the level of grammar just how far Shakespeare was willing to break conventions.
After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.
Under the free pilot program, locals receive tailor-made text messages on their mobile phones, providing them with daily weather forecasts, warnings about potential hazards and advice on what action they should take.
Replacing the familiar iChat, Messages is an instant-messaging program with group-chat capability and a dash of text messaging mixed in.
Unfortunately, this text fell on deaf ears because an automated computer program was asking all the questions.
He used his knack for languages--he was studying Latin, Mandarin and French--to create a program that could extract the most relevant sentences out of long text.
She receives back text files filled with DNA sequences and uses a computer program to take these values and correlate them with human traits such as eye color and gender.
But in the run up to Friday night, a sister program (DIY SOS) was airing a charity special, and throughout the show asking people to text a donation.
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Skype works very much like an instant messaging program, but allows users to call people on their buddy list and have a voice conversation instead of a text-based chat.
Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.
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