Panasonic talks up TV for the blind The Register looks at the offering. ” The system is a take on the audio navigation feature seen on a number of DVD and Blu-ray releases, which hides away the regular menu in favour of a much-simplified screen and spoken guidance,” the site says.
Google, Facebook, Twitter hit on privacy On ZDNet, Zack Whittaker gives the details of happenings in the U.K. “A cross-bench committee of influential UK members of Parliament and peers have open fired at Google in a report — while lightly poking at Facebook and Twitter in the process — almost a year after a number of public figures and celebrities were granted court-issued worldwide gagging orders on their private lives,” he reports.
Microsoft Lync: More unified communications partner momentum? On The VAR Guy, the author looks at one report’s findings. “The report summary doesn’t offer up and big Lync adoption stats, but recent Microsoft financial analyst calls have often involved updates on Lync sales trends. Back in January 2012, Microsoft mentioned that quarterly revenues from Lync and Dynamics CRM grew by more than 30 percent. And more recently, Microsoft Channel Chief Jon Roskill described how “cloudified” versions of Lync and other Microsoft business applications would continue to gain popularity,” he writes.