[bcab] 2008 updates

The old 2007 page has now been purged from the home page at www.vipnews.org.uk 
and divided up into 15 separate pages.  I have started on 2008 updates, however 
unfortunately there is a "black hole" period in media history, where a certain 
date range falls below the end of the most recent articles available through 
being too old, yet falls above the news archive period range through being too 
new.  Google news, for example, has a finite limit of 1000 articles for any 
given keyword search sorted by date.  What this means for vipnews.org.uk is 
that I've hardly got any links for January 2008, apart from at the tail end.   
I've got quite plenty for December 07 and quite a few for February 08, but will 
have to live with the gap for up to 3 months, until media articles from this 
period become available to google new archives.  I wasn't around at the time to 
do the research work!   Google is not the only new search engine I use  - I 
deploy up to 15 of them and am building my own - but most of them also have 
such limits.   Anyway, to close, as I'm sure not everyone is interested in all 
of this, here is a short listing of the "assistive technology" articles I was 
able to find so far, for February 2008.  You can find them all at 
www.vipnews.org.uk 

or on the open web if you choose.   Best to all, Leon Gilbert, Editor
www.vipnews.org.uk - An open source project providing links to blindness & 
visual impairment in the online media.

PS Outlook express users may press ALT+SHIFT+H to view this message in HTML 
format, in which the links below are active and may be tabbed through. 

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FEB08
TVs and computers for the blind (features the Zen concept PC) (Tech.co.uk, 
28/2/08) 
13 Questions: Julie Howell (BBC Ouch! 28/2/08) 
GNOME focuses on accessibility -- with a little help from Mozilla and others 
(Linux.com, 27/2/08) 
Better accessibility through Vista (Computer Active, 26/2/08) 
Zen PC Concept for the visually impaired (Product-Reviews.net, 25/2/08) 
Mitsumi develops haptic Touch Pad to be installed on the back of mobile devices 
(FarEastGizmos.com, 23/2/08) 
Toshiba's new CV range hi-definition LCD TV's include built-in audio 
description (The Register, 22/12/08) 
Displaysense championing its new product for the blind - a talking display 
stand (Bishops Stortford Citizen, 20/2/08) 
KeyCue 4.1 keyboard shortcut cheat sheet now with large-print themes 
(PRmac.com, 19/2/08) 
Game Accessibility Arcade to be Presented at Game Developers Conference 2008 
(GameSpy.com, 15/2/08) 
LG Handset Comes with Tactile Feedback Touch-screen (Cellular News, 13/2/08) 
Readers get the bigger picture (This is Cheshire, 10/2/08) 
Apple updates address media apps, visually impaired (ITwire.com, 7/2/08) 
Samsung launches black U600 with haptic touch (Pocket Lint, 6/2/08) 
Case study: Brighton & Hove City Council's Talking Bus Stops for the blind and 
visually impaired (PublicTechnology.net, 4/2/08)

JAN08

Scanner Puts Blind People In Picture (I C Renfrewshire, 30/1/08)
Nokia Launches N82 Smartphone For Visually Impaired (Eflux Media, 29/1/08) 
Bomi Kim Tactile MP3 player - braille-like control (Tech Digest, 29/1/08) 
Visit the Assistive Technology 2007 Page

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