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What about GPS that will suggest nearby restaurants, or car audio systems that will let you rate a track, and suggest other similar ones?

There’s a few websites that do it now… like:

last.fm
pandora.com
liveplasma.com
audiomap.tuneglue.net
musicovery.com

etc…

Very Interesting Blog! I was wondering if you want to visit the famous WWE Diva Trish Stratus website!…

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Many people think they must choose a specific programming language in order to become a programmer, believing that they can only do…

Google at least has the class to be upfront about their spying

for you people who value your privacy ,

use this instead of google search

http://scroogle.org/

ill never knowingly let this operate in my house ,

A few Asian laptop manufacturers may begin to offer notebooks with the chip in a few months, said Akustica CEO Jim Rock.

“If you are serious about VoIP, you need to offer a digital microphone,” he said.

Microphones in laptops, cell phones and MP3 players/voice recorders are largely Electret Condenser Microphones. ECMs are analog devices, which mean they capture real-world sound waves with a membrane and transmit them to an analog-to-digital converter. To prevent signal interference or noise, ECMs have to be insulated from wires and components.

The membrane in the AKU2000 is one of the metal layers of the chip. (Chips are made up of layers of silicon and metal.) An integrated analog-to-digital converter then turns the captured vibrations into a digital signal. The entire microphone is contained on a single chip–a first, according to the company.

With the digital microphone, interference is less of an issue, meaning the chips can be placed more freely inside a notebook or cell phone. Two to four of the chips can be embedded into the bezel of a notebook, for instance. The first notebooks with Akustica’s product will likely have two chips. With more microphones, sound quality improves.

“You can focus better on the speaker and get rid of noise,” Rock said.

The AKU2000 takes up less space than traditional microphones because additional components for preventing signal interference aren’t needed.

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The basic chip technology may also be used one day to make accelerometers, be incorporated into car-braking systems or be built into different types of communications chips.

The difficult part, at least for now, is the price, noted Allen Nogee, an analyst at In-Stat. “It is not the cheapest microphone on the market,” he said.

Akustica’s chip will sell for $3.76 in quantities of 1,000, while conventional microphone chips sell for $1 or less. Still, Rock said the price difference is actually rather slight, because most customers will order more than 1,000.

“We’re talking 50,000 and 100,000,” he said.

A system recently outlined by researchers at Google amounts to personalized TV without the fancy set-top equipment required by previous (and failed) attempts at interactive television. Their prototype software, detailed in a conference presentation in Europe last June, uses a computer’s built-in microphone to listen to the sounds in a room. It then filters each five-second snippet of sound to pick out audio from a TV, reduces the snippet to a digital “fingerprint,” searches an Internet server for a matching fingerprint from a pre-recorded show, and, if it finds a match, displays ads, chat rooms, or other information related to that snippet on the user’s computer.
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Someone want to clue me in to the built-in microphone in every PC? I’m guessing some laptops have a built-in microphone, but how about desktop computers? Desktops usually have a microphone port on the back of the motherboard which you can hook up a mic, but is there another surface mount microphone on the motherboard itself? Anyone heard of this?

Google Using Your Mic to Listen In?
Then feeding you ads based on what they hear…

Posted on 2006-09-04 11:22:10 by Karl

A strange story in the Register this morning that suggests the search giant is working on technology that would listen in on ambient noise via a user’s PC microphone, then deliver contextual ads based on what was heard. Google apparently promises that the service only listens to music or TV noise and bases the ads off of that, but privacy implications are so far reaching that it’s hard to believe this idea has any real traction.

Story tag: business content privacy

Voice Over Internet Protocol and Skype Security

Simson L. Garfinkel

With the increased deployment of high-speed (“broadband”) Internet connectivity, a growing number of businesses and individuals are using the Internet for voice telephony, a technique known as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). With a VoIP system, two people can speak with each other by using headsets and microphones connected directly to their computers. Skype is a proprietary VoIP system developed by Skype Technologies S.A. Like the popular KaZaA file-trading system, Skype is based on peer-to-peer technology: instead of transmitting all voice calls through a central server, as some VoIP services do (Vonage, for example), Skype clients seek out and find other Skype clients, then build from these connections a network that can be used to search for other users and send them messages. Is Skype secure? How does its security compare with that of conventional telephone calls, or of other VoIP-based systems? In this article commissioned by OSI’s Information Program, Simson Garfinkel, an expert on Internet security and networking issues, looks at the security properties of key importance for civil society organizations relying on Skype for voice communications.

This paper is under Creative Commons license, so, please, distribute it freely