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Review: HD Radio Isn’t Quite Ready For The World 2008-03-07 13:07:31 Over the past fifteen years, technology has made an impact on the way everyday people listen to music. With the birth of digital streaming media, portable music jukeboxes and online music retailers (like Yahoo! Launch, the iPod and the iTunes Music Store, respectively), classic venues of listening to music like cassettes and even radio [...] Read more:Radio
, World
Student Arrested In Davis Bomb Scare “Odd, Bizarre” 2008-03-06 13:07:53 “Bizarre
, eccentric, odd.”
That’s how students at UC Davis
tagged fellow classmate Mark Woods on his Facebook.com profile. Woods was arrested last night at a dorm hall on the UC Davis campus after Davis Police received an anonymous tipoff that Woods was in possession of homemade explosives.
More than 400 UC Davis students were [...] Read more:Student
, Scare
US Air Force Blocks Access To Weblogs 2008-03-04 07:03:23 Greetings to any airmen who can read this entry! The United States Armed Force
s is no stranger to blocking off certain parts of the Internet from troop view. Last year, the Department of Defense blocked sites like MySpace, YouTube and Live365 due to what the DoD claimed were bandwidth issues and security measures.
This [...] Read more:Blocks
, Access
, Weblogs
Music Video Monday: 25 Years Of Thriller 2008-03-03 09:34:08 The world’s best-selling album, Thriller
, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame this year. Michael Jackson’s hit album, as of 2007, has sold more than 65 million copies. All this month, XM Satellite Radio is paying tribute to twenty-five years of Thriller by transforming XM Channel 63 into XM Thriller, sporting interviews [...] Read more:Music
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, Years
Sacramento Bee Writer Caught With Voyeured Kiddie Porn 2008-03-01 00:29:23 Someone noticed a man in his fifties videotaping cheerleaders in a suspicious manner on February 3rd at the University of California, Davis Acitivities and Recrational Center. The witness alerted a nearby campus police officer, and 52-year-old Gilbert Chan was cited for video voyerism.
When police seized and reviewed the camera Chan had concealed at the [...] Read more:Sacramento
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, Caught
My925 Launching Pride Radio, Drops 80s Music On HD 2008-02-29 20:21:46 You Heard It Here First: Starting midnight tonight, anyone fortunate enough to receive those hidden HD Radio
stations will notice a change on one radio channel. KGBY 92.5, branded as My925, dropped its soft rock format two months ago for adult alternative music. This time, My925 is dropping it’s 80s-formatted HD-2 channel [...] Read more:Music
, Pride
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Samsung, With Electronic Arts, Unveils 3D-Ready Televisions 2008-02-28 06:13:23 If you haven’t invested in high-definition flat screen television sets yet, Samsung
is hoping to inspire your wallet to make the purchase. The Korean-based electronics company has released two brand-new widescreen plasma sets that are capable of playing 3D content. Electronic
Arts has partnered with Samsung in the development of the television sets [...]
Google Image Labeler Provides Minutes Of Fun 2008-02-27 08:16:03 Google is hoping its faithful search engine users will do two things: One, stay with Google in the wake of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger talk. Two, help Google Image
Search grow and become a better search enging for photos and graphics online.
Google’s carrying out the latter of the two by launching the Google Image [...] Read more:Google
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Trip Down Memory Lane: Phil Cowan (1990) 2008-02-26 06:44:16 As promised yesterday, the second of two photos featuring me as a three-year-old with Sacramento radio legends Paul Robins and Phil Cowan
. Phil is pictured above.
Phil split from The Paul And Phil morning show on KGBY 92.5 in 2005. While Paul and co-host Lori Sacco continued the morning show, Phil hosted his own [...] Read more:Memory
Trip Down Memory Lane: Paul Robins (1990) 2008-02-25 05:19:42 Thought it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane today. The photo above is me with Paul Robins, formerly of the Paul & Lori show on KGBY 92.5FM. You may remember that Clear Channel asked Paul to leave back in December when the media company decided it would flip the [...] Read more:Memory