Tag: SPEECH

Former President Bill Clinton gave a keynote address at the Dreamforce conference yesterday, during which he discussed global and domestic economic inequalities, technology, and, of course, WikiLeaks. Clinton described the whistleblowing organization's recent leak of diplomatic cables as unfortunate, but didn't go quite as far in condemning the site as his wife recently did. Instead, the ...

Good politicians respond to criticism by engaging in a healthy dialogue with their disgruntled constituency. Pennsylvania Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett, on the other hand, responds by slapping a muzzle on Twitter accounts. According to Techdirt, Corbett has gone so far as to subpoena Twitter in response to two anonymous users who used the microblogging ...

Rather than sit back and do nothing while his son struggled to communicate, one British father created a program to help his autistic child communicate. Autism is a difficult disease for both parents and children to manage. According to BBC News, Stephen Lodge's Speaks4Me program allows its user to form sentences by dragging and dropping onscreen images in a particular order. Stephen's ...

When Barack Obama speaks, he gets the attention of every media outlet known to man. When Joe Biden speaks, he gets Justin.tv. Biden, who's currently touring the Middle East, is scheduled to give a speech later in the week at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Because he's not with Obama, though, the official White House camera crew didn't make the trip with him. Without the crew, live-streaming ...

One half of history's most famed pair of film critics, Roger Ebert has seen his share of trials and tribulations over the past decade. Not long after losing his longtime partner Gene Siskel to brain cancer in 1999, Ebert himself was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002. After having two surgeries, and watching the cancer spread from thyroid to jaw, Ebert again underwent surgery in 2006. Doctors ...

We love reading and reporting about the latest technology unleashed on the world. Our favorite is the kind that truly changes the lives of people. But in a world that barely has the attention span to read a 140-character tweet, a lot of noble technology gets overlooked. That's why we want everybody to pause and recognize the importance of a recent medical breakthrough. According to Technology ...

Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, has looked into the crystal ball hidden deep inside the company's headquarters. Besides plenty of dollar signs for Google, Schmidt envisions a drastically different Internet five years from now than the one we know today. According to ReadWriteWeb, the CEO remarked during a speech atGartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009 last week that the Web of the ...

Coloradan J.P. Weichel has been charged with libel for a 2007 Craigslist post in which he lambasted his ex-girlfriend, Silicon Alley Insider reports. Weichel, obviously upset at the time, posted a diatribe on Craigslist's "Rants & Raves" section, accusing his ex-girlfriend of exchanging sex for legal services and implicitly stating that her abuse of their child warranted a call to child ...

We've all seen or heard footage Stephen Hawking using an interface on his wheelchair to speak, but he's relying on his limited ability to move in order to construct those sentences. 25-year-old Erik Ramsey tragically suffered an accident that left him unable to control any part of his body except for one thing: looking up and down. That was nearly nine years ago, and he's now undergoing training ...