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HDTV is lame... 2007-05-19 21:29:00 Highdefinition Television already has got a follower: In 2015 the first test broadcasts of Super Hi-Vision starts in Japan. Unlike the Full HD resolution of 1920x1200 pixel, Super Hi-Vision supports awesome 7680x4320 pixel. Read more:HDTV
Top 10 HDTV Myths: Fact vs. Fiction, Hi-Def Style 2007-05-19 21:03:00 High-definition television (HDTV
) has evolved from an early-adopter indulgence to a mainstream technology in less than a decade. Enthusiasm for HD everything is driving the sales of flat-panel TVs and has inspired a next-gen DVD format war. It’s showing up in camcorders and on your local TV news.Yet HDTV remains a widely misunderstood technology, muddled with misconceptions and half-truths born of marketing mumbo jumbo and senseless jargon. The advertised specifications read like bewildering mathematical equations with “variables” such as 1080i, 720p, 4:3, 1080p and 16:9. To clear the air of confusion we’ve examined some of the most wrongheaded bits of received wisdom in the world of HD. Read more:Myths
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Digital tech for the disabled 2007-05-19 21:01:00 Every year since 2003, the South Korean government has commissioned designers to come up with technologies to help enable people with physical disabilities to work with computers and other electronics devices. The government then picks the most promising prototypes and builds more prototypes to conduct feasible testing.These are the 10 prototypes chosen this year by the Ministry of Information and Communication and Korea Agency for Digital
Opportunity & Promotion. If testing goes well, they could make their way to homes and offices.This is the SenseView, an enlarged-view tabletop reader, which produces an extra-large view of images and documents on a computer screen monitor for people with low vision.
'What is a Web site?' judge says he's fully computer literate 2007-05-19 21:01:00 A British judge who said he didn't really understand the term "Web site" is fully
computer literate and was merely trying to clarify complex evidence for the benefit of the court, the judiciary said on Friday.The remark by Judge Peter Openshaw during a trial on Wednesday made headlines around the world."The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really understand what a Web site is," he told a London court during the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet.In a statement, the Judicial Communications Office did not dispute that Openshaw had been accurately quoted. But it said the remark by the judge, now in his fifth week presiding over the trial, had been taken out of context."Trial judges always seek to ensure that everyone in court is able to follow all of the proceedings. They will regularly ask questions, not for their own benefit, but on behalf of all those following a case, in the interests of justice," it said.
Software for kindergarten Beethovens 2007-05-19 21:00:00 Child prodigies are rare in any artistic pursuit, but new music composition software is making it easier for parents and teachers to raise a little Beethoven.Sibelius, a well-known maker of software that's used by musicians as well as composers on Hollywood films like Casino Royale, last week released the latest in a line of music software designed for children ages five to 11. With a game-like design and graphics, the software teaches children the basics of instruments, music theory, notation and composition, and then lets them create their own songs by dragging and dropping musically infused shapes, instruments, characters or animations.It's so easy that a kindergartner can compose a song, say educators, and that's something they believe will go far to make music aficionados of kids. That shift could have ripple effects on an already transformed music industry thanks to the digital age. Instead of downloading pirated music, more kids may begin to create their own sounds, educators Read more:Software
YouTube doubtful of Pentagon explanation for blocking sites 2007-05-19 18:01:00 YouTube's co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon
's assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military's principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers."They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don't know what the problem is," CEO Chad Hurley said with a hearty laugh during an interview with The Associated Press.Hurley, Chief Technology Officer Steve Chen and YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan emphasized that the online video company is trying to work with the Pentagon in hopes the military will reverse course or at least partially repeal the ban. Read more:YouTube
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NBC strikes deal with YouTube 2007-05-19 17:59:00 Just months ago, NBC Universal was demanding that clips of its shows be removed from YouTube
. In the time since, YouTube has emerged as an Internet tour de force, and now NBC has changed its tune.A network representative confirmed a report Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal that NBC has plans to upload promotional video clips of some of its TV shows, including "Saturday Night Live" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." The entertainment company, owned by General Electric, will advertise on YouTube and promote the site on some of its TV shows. Financial details were not disclosed. A YouTube representative did not return calls for comment.The craze over sharing homemade videos on the Internet is beginning to draw some big-time Hollywood players. On Monday, Warner Bros. announced that Internet video site Guba has started selling downloads of the studio's movies and TV shows. Guba is the first among the video-sharing sites to offer full-length movies.
Microsoft opens up on Web strategy at Mix '07 2007-05-19 15:54:00 Microsoft's strategy in the new world of ad-supported online software is, in some ways, business as usual: use aggressive business terms to undercut rivals, and cozy up to developers.At the company's Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and other Microsoft executives are scheduled to lay out the elements of Microsoft's "software plus services" push, its approach to making money from hosted Web services while keeping customers tied to its desktop software. Read more:Microsoft
Analysts: Microsoft's after Google's ad business 2007-05-19 15:54:00 SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft
may be older and bigger than Google
, but it's Microsoft nipping at Google's heels and not the other way around, according to two Gartner analysts who closely follow the moves of the companies.By offering free Web-based productivity applications, Google is looking for an additional vehicle for advertising revenue and trying to distract Microsoft from focusing on its own core search advertising business rather than hoping to grab Microsoft's big corporate IT dollars, David Smith, a vice president and Gartner Fellow at research firm Gartner, said during a session at the Gartner Symposium ITXPO conference here on Wednesday.Despite reports to the contrary, Google isn't going after Microsoft as much as Microsoft is gunning for Google, he said."Microsoft is clearly going after the advertising world" and has pledged to invest $2 billion to do so, he said. But he said the company is at a "critical point."
Wired but not Web 2.0? That's normal, study says 2007-05-19 15:53:00 Although most U.S. adults have a cell phone, a computer and Internet access, a study says only a small percentage are participating in Web 2.0 activities.The Pew Internet & American Life Project released on Sunday a study (PDF: A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users) of people's "evolving relationships to cyberspace."Pew found in a survey that 73 percent of U.S. adults own a cell phone, 68 percent have a desktop computer, 30 percent possess a laptop, and 73 percent connect to the Internet, but that very few use them to express themselves publicly via Web 2.0 applications.The study defines Web 2.0 users as people who take advantage of technology "to express themselves online and participate in the commons of cyberspace," including maintaining a personal Web site, blogging, vlogging, remixing media or sharing new-media creations.Only 8 percent of U.S. adults are "deep users" of Web 2.0 features, the study found, though many American adults do own the gadgets that e Read more:Wired
Ad giant to scoop up 24/7 Real Media 2007-05-19 14:04:00 WPP Group plans to buy 24/7 Real Media in a $649 million cash deal, bringing the latter's digital marketing technologies to the advertising giant
.WPP's announcement on Thursday comes just one month after Google said it will acquire online ad company DoubleClick in a $3.1 billion deal. Google's deal led to speculation that there would be an acquisition boom in the advertising technology market. Earlier this month, there were rumors that Microsoft would buy 24/7.The deal will tie WPP's traditional mix of marketing, advertising, public relations and branding with 24/7's search-based ad serving, monitoring and analytics technologies. "Our clients and therefore our industry are becoming more technology driven," Martin Sorrell, WPP chief executive, said in a statement. "24/7 Real Media significantly enhances our capabilities, technological resources and talent."
Ads that are too fast for a fast-forward button 2007-05-19 14:03:00 A broadcast network will soon offer advertisers two more ways to try holding the attention of viewers throughout those commercial breaks that consumers love to hate.One idea is to run quickie commercials of only 5 seconds each. The other is to schedule a series with no commercial breaks at all and instead incorporate sponsors' products into each episode.Executives of The CW Television Network outlined their plans yesterday as they offered Madison Avenue a preview of their prime-time lineup for the 2007-2008 season.The proposals are the most recent to be advanced by the major networks, broadcast and cable, as they grapple with the problem of keeping viewers from changing channels during commercials--or, if the viewing is being done on digital video recorders, from fast-forwarding through the spots. Read more:button
Google CEO talks new media politics 2007-05-19 14:02:00 NEW YORK--During a keynote address at the 2007 Personal Democracy Forum Friday morning, Google
CEO Eric Schmidt looked up at the crowd and said, "This looks like a Google meeting."The reason, he said, was the abundance of open laptop screens, BlackBerrys and other gadgets among the audience. "At most Google meetings no one is actually looking at the speaker; they're all basically online," he said."Speaking as an older person, this bothers me, but I have given up."This always-on nature of the Internet generation and its effect on the global political landscape was the focus of Schmidt's presentation, which was held in the form of a conversation with Thomas L. Friedman, a New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat."George Bush never could've been elected president if he'd been at Yale now and there'd been cell phone cameras around."--Thomas L. Friedman, columnistWhile the discussion ranged from the Thai government's ban on YouTube earlier this year to the widely circu Read more:media
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Fake E-Mail Results in Angry Apple Shareholders 2007-05-19 00:45:00 Apple stock dropped 2.2% today in mid-afternoon trading as Engadget published news based on a faked e-mail inside Apple. 'Apparently an internal memo was sent to several Apple employees--and forwarded to Engadget--around 9am CT today saying that Apple issued a press release with the news that the iPhone was now scheduled for October, and Leopard was delayed until January. About an hour and a half after that e-mail went out, a second e-mail was sent--this time officially from Apple--saying the first e-mail was a fake, and that the delivery schedule for the iPhone and Leopard had not changed. Read more:Apple
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INQUIRER Top 10 Greatest Ever Technology Names 2007-05-19 00:36:00 NOW THAT Windows Server 2008 has been officially named, the codename Longhorn will retreat to being just another future slab of steak, one more leather jacket.That’s a shame because Longhorn is an outstanding name. It’s evocative, American, masculine, muscular, traditional, rural. It’s a name that communicates with the solar plexus like Sibelius’s second or the sudden glimpse of a mountain when mist clears.Unlike Windows Server 2008, although to be fair to Microsoft, it recognises its essential dullness in a mockumentary video.Why do companies ditch these powerful codenames? It’s a shame because there have been some corkers, so let’s recall them as part of our Top 10 Greatest
Ever TechnologyNames
.10. Compaq’s Wildfire. Wildfire was the codename for a range of Alpha-based servers. Good name, except for INQUIRER founder Mike Magee, who, in another plaice, was on the receiving end of a cease-and-desist letter from Messrs. Sue, Grabbit and Run suggesting the moniker could w
Google's new Universal search 2007-05-19 00:33:00 Google made an announcement a couple days ago that they've released what they call Universal
Search. Universal Search is basically a tighter integration of image, video, blog, news, and other search services into the main search results. Marissa gives more background on the concept here. For those of us paying attention to this space on a daily basis, it's not really anything too earth shattering. They've been integrating different types of results into the main search off and on for years. This announcement simply lets us know that they're serious about it and will continue to try to deliver the best results possible, regardless of whether it's a web page, video, product search, or whatever.As a searcher, I think this is great--as long as they get it right. I don't want a bunch of irrelevant or useless stuff, but if it's what I'm looking for, that's perfect. As a search marketer, this emphasizes the importance of optimizing your presence in not just the Google web page result Read more:Google
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First-quarter digital camera shipments up 6 percent 2007-05-19 00:03:00 Digital camera shipments increased 6 percent to 4.9 million in the first quarter
of 2007, market researcher IDC said Wednesday.Top leaders were Canon at 21 percent of the market, Sony at 16 percent and Kodak at 13 percent. Samsung jumped from 4 percent in the year-earlier quarter to 11 percent this year, propelling it to a fourth-place finish, IDC said.Kodak fared better, shipments increasing 5 percent--the first growth in five quarters, attributable to its emphasis on compact cameras costing between $200 and $300, IDC said. Nikon, though, didn't fare as well."Nikon was seventh with a share of 7 percent, down from 13 percent a year ago," said IDC analyst Christopher Chute. "They did well with DSLRs (digital single-lens reflex cameras), but no so well with compacts." Read more:First
FCC approves the iPhone 2007-05-19 00:02:00 Apple's iPhone
took one step closer to launching Wednesday, as the company received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to sell it in the U.S.t's not like that permission was ever really in doubt. But the FCC requires anyone who makes a phone or wireless device for use in this country to pass some basic tests that ensure the device isn't putting out harmful radiation, or death rays, or other emissions that could cause problems. The FCC also publishes those documents on its Web site, which has led to the discovery of unannounced products in the past. That's part of the reason why CEO Steve Jobs preannounced the iPhone in January.The iPhone is known as the "A1203," at least for testing purposes. All those years of homework must have paid off, for the iPhone A1203 passed the tests with flying colors. An Apple representative told Reuters that the iPhone remains on track for a late June arrival.
Console mods find dead end at Xbox Live 2007-05-19 00:01:00 Microsoft is cracking down on Xbox
owners who modify their consoles.The company is blocking modified Xbox 360 systems from connecting to its online multiplayer video game service, Xbox Live
.According to a blog posting from Microsoft's Games Global Marketing team, when owners of a modified console try to log onto the service, they will be blocked, although they will not have their accounts banned."We will continue to enforce this rule to ensure the integrity of our service, the protection of our partners and the benefits of our users," the blog states....read the full article [ here ] Read more:Console
Podcast: What's behind Microsoft's Aquantive grab? 2007-05-19 00:00:00 In its largest deal ever, Microsoft
announced plans Friday to acquire digital marketing and services company Aquantive for $6 billion. CNET News.com's Leslie Katz talks with reporter Ina Fried about what the buy could mean for Redmond.Plus, Hewlett-Packard is adding two new members to its board; Advanced Micro Devices is prepping a new energy-efficient notebook chip and chip platform that could help it compete with Intel; and a professor at Purdue University is working to produce hydrogen from a reaction between water and an alloy of aluminum and gallium. Read more:Podcast
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Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase ever 2007-05-18 23:59:00 Aquantive who? The company Microsoft
is acquiring for its highest purchase price ever may not even register on the radar of most consumers.But it's a well-known entity in the online advertising industry and can give Microsoft some much-needed--even if pricey--ad-serving technology, some industry experts said. Microsoft said it was buying Aquantive early on Friday, shocking many observers with a $6 billion purchase price, which is three times the amount it has paid for any other company and an 85 percent premium on Aquantive's closing stock price on Thursday. It is also double what Google agreed to pay for DoubleClick last month. Aquantive's stock rose nearly 80 percent after the deal was announced....read the full article [ here ]
SimExchange aims to predict video game market 2007-05-18 23:58:00 Last week, Brian Shiau sent out an e-mail predict
ing what the NPD Group, the perceived authority on the performance of the video
game market, would report about the industry's April console sales when it delivered its assessment Thursday.It turned out that Shiau's predictions weren't perfect--on average he was about 15 percent off on the sales of Nintendo's DS and Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable and Microsoft's Xbox 360. But he also wasn't that far off predictions from Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter, one of the most quoted industry analysts, who himself had been about 10.6 percent off sales on the same consoles.And a month earlier, Shiau's predictions had actually been better than Pachter's. Shiau had been off by about 15.8 percent, while Pachter had missed by 34.9 percent. ...read the full article [ here ]
Microsoft to buy Aquantive for $6 billion 2007-05-18 23:49:00 In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft
said Friday that it will pay $6 billion
to acquire Aquantive, a digital marketing and services company.The deal is Microsoft's largest ever, highlighting the importance of supporting more-advanced advertising products and technologies across areas including media planning, video on demand and Internet Protocol television. Aquantive produces the Atlas Media Console and Drive PM tools for advertisers and publishers, and owns interactive ad agency Avenue A Razorfish."The advertising industry is evolving and growing at an incredible pace, moving increasingly toward online and IP-served platforms, which dramatically increases the importance of software for this industry," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement. "Today's announcement represents the next step in the evolution of our ad network from our initial investment in MSN, to the broader Microsoft network including Xbox Live, Windows Live and Office Live, and now to the
Technology 'fingerprints' valid credit cards, flags bogus ones 2007-05-18 23:47:00 The way the particles land on a given credit
card magnetic stripe are as unique as individual snow flakes or human fingerprints
. So says a Magtek, a company that has developed a product, MagnePrint, for recording the unique magnetic media signature for all credit and debit cards scanned through its readers. The first scan by a MagnePrint reader creates a template against which all subsequent scans are compared.... read the full article on cnet news Read more:Technology
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Are You Ready for Web 2.0? 2007-05-21 15:51:00 SAN FRANCISCO -- No one may be able to agree on what Web 2.0 means, but the idea of a new, more collaborative internet is creating buzz reminiscent of the go-go days of the late 1990s.Excitment over emerging new publishing theories -- and the whiff of a resurgence of startup financings -- this week drew throngs of geeks paying $2,800 a head to the sold-out Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Eight hundred people jostled in the doorways of early workshops devoted to tagging, innovations in search and raising venture capital.Web 2.0, according to conference sponsor Tim O'Reilly, is an "architecture of participation" -- a constellation made up of links between web applications that rival desktop applications, the blog publishing revolution and self-service advertising. This architecture is based on social software where users generate content, rather than simply consume it, and on open programming interfaces that let developers add to a web service or get at data. It is an arena where t
Data mining goes mainstream 2007-05-21 12:37:00 Rodney Monroe, the police chief in Richmond, Va., describes himself as a lifelong cop whose expertise is in fighting street crime, not in software. His own Web browsing, he says, mostly involves checking golf scores.But shortly after he became chief in 2005, a crime analyst who had retired from the force convinced him to try some clever software. The programs cull through information that the department already collects, like "911"and police reports, but add new streams of data--about neighborhood demographics and payday schedules, for example, or about weather, traffic patterns and sports events--to try to predict where crimes might occur."It sounded nutty at first," Monroe recalled, "but the more and more you get into it, the more sense it makes.”The technology, for example, pointed to a high rate of robberies on paydays in Hispanic neighborhoods, where fewer people use banks and where customers leaving check-cashing stores were easy targets for robbers. Elsewhere, there were clust
Google, Salesforce.com reportedly in alliance 2007-05-21 12:37:00 Google and Salesforce
.com are in talks for an alliance that could help them compete better against Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.The companies are still working out details of a potential partnership, which is expected to be announced in the next few weeks, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.The paper said one outcome could be a Web-based offering that integrates some of Google's online services such as email and instant-messaging with those of Salesforce.com, whose customer-relationship management tools help salespeople track their accounts.Google and Salesforce.com could not be reached immediately for comment. Read more:Google
Welcome to the era of gullibility 2.0 2007-05-21 12:36:00 On Wednesday, the digital age may have had its "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment.Apple's stock took a tumble when popular tech blog Engadget posted a supposed "internal memo" indicating a significant delay in the releases of the much-anticipated iPhone handheld device and the Leopard operating system. The memo was a fake; Engadget had been fooled. The blog later called the original post a "false alarm," and Apple's stock rebounded--though not to its preplunge levels. As TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington said in a post Thursday evening, "Many investors had lost a staggering amount of money in the amount of time it takes to brush your teeth."For millions of online news junkies, gadget enthusiasts, and Apple stockholders, "Applegate" has become a reminder of a very old lesson: Don't believe everything you read.The publication of erroneous rumors, incorrect facts--Dewey didn't actually defeat Truman, as we all know--and pranks that were taken too seriously (War of the Worlds, anyone?) h Read more:Welcome
Firefox and the anxiety of growing pains 2007-05-21 12:36:00 If the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers--the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors, putting up signs.In 2004, Messina, a 26-year-old Web entrepreneur from San Francisco, found his dream candidate in Firefox
, the open-source Internet browser that is a rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.Unlike the other candidate he volunteered for that year, Howard Dean, Firefox is still racking up victories. And unlike Dean, the people behind Firefox have a dilemma: what happens--and what is owed to volunteer contributors--when an open-source project starts to become successful?Some 1,000 to 2,000 people have contributed code to Firefox, according to the Mozilla Foundation, which distributes the Firefox browser. An estimated 10,000 people act as testers for the program, and an estimated 80,000 help spread the word. In 2004, with the release of version 1.0, Firefox became the dream of t Read more:anxiety
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