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Wednesday, 04 May 2005 |
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Beginning Tuesday, May 3, Disneyland Resort will "podcast" three days of celebrity-filled festivities leading to the May 5 launch of the "Happiest Celebration on Earth," an 18-month global commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Disneyland in California that will simultaneously kick-off ceremonies at Disney parks around the world.
The innovative podcast represents the first time that any Disney theme park in the world will engage in the rapidly growing medium of podcasting. Podcasts are MP3 audio files that can be automatically downloaded to your personal computer and transferred to an iPod or other portable MP3 player.
The podcast will incorporate a collection of exclusive celebrity- interviews, music, historic anecdotes and live event coverage that convey the excitement of the event and the story of what has made Disneyland a national treasure over the past five decades. The podcasts will include behind the scenes interviews as well as audio content detailing the debut of exciting new entertainment spectaculars and groundbreaking adventures and attractions premiering at the Disneyland Resort as part of the 50th anniversary celebration.
Produced daily after the each day's events from Tuesday, May 3, through Thursday, May 5, this unique Internet-based show will be free and accessible to a global audience at: http://www.disneyland.com/podcast.
"Podcasting allows us to bring the magic of Disney and our 50th anniversary celebration to worldwide consumers through this exciting new medium," said Duncan Wardle, vice president of press and publicity, Disneyland Resort. "Through this truly cutting-edge technology we can literally bring the fun, magic and excitement of this global launch to Disney fans everywhere."
Podcast pioneer Michael W. Geoghegan will serve as host for the series. Geoghegan was an early adopter of the emerging technology and serves as host for several popular podcast shows.
The "Happiest Celebration on Earth" is highlighted by the premiere of exciting new entertainment spectaculars and innovative adventures and attractions at Disneyland Resort, California; Walt Disney World Resort, Florida; Tokyo Disney Resort, Japan; and Disneyland Resort Paris, France. Joining the celebration on September 12, 2005, will be Hong Kong Disneyland, Disney's 11th vacation destination and first theme park in China. The global celebration marks the largest debut of new Disney theme park attractions and entertainment ever unveiled.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005 |
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Online mixes have deformed my listening habits beyond all expectations. As a dance music fan trapped in club-free suburbia, consuming music one song at a time wasn't just frustrating: It was antithetical. You could rely on the slow trickle of properly licensed CD mixes throughout the year. Or you could listen to the tracks individually, a bit like cutting paragraphs from a book. With some genres, like grime and leftfield jungle, the mixes never came at all.
Now, with a little searching, I can find thousands of mixes. They range from current transmissions from East London and Cologne, to scratchy disco tapes from the dawn of DJ mixing. I have sets from Derrick May at the Music Institute in 1987, '96 Metalheadz Blue Note sessions, and 2005 dubplate selections from guys I've never heard of. With high-speed connections, cheap server space, large capacity email, and near terrabyte-sized hard-drives, it's a growing market. Some weeks, I find myself listening to almost nothing but.
Despite the legal/ethical quandary that mp3 file sharing throws up, everyone seems to give DJ mixes a free pass. Producers are always quick to poo-poo mp3s, but will add an aside that p2p servers are great for tracking down old club sets. But then the DJ mix(tape) has always had a tenuous relationship with legality, even as it's driven the growth of the industry, from the first reel-to-reel disco mixes right up through CD-R's. Even major labels turn a (mostly) blind eye, given that the culture is based on people playing records they didn't make, press, or release, for a paying audience. (And now that dance is dead as a mainstream, commercial property, there's plenty of neo-pub rock to worry about.)Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005 |
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As MP3 players get smaller and more easily portable, they have virtually displaced portable CD players and walkmen, especially as the prices of MP3 players have succumbed to a price drop in flash memory, the players' core technology.
Korea alone has dozens of manufacturers. Reigncom, well known for iRiver, is number one in the domestic market, followed by Samsung Electronics and Cowon Systems. International companies such as Apple and Sony are asserting their hold here too. There are two types of MP3 players -- flash memory and HDD (hard disk drive). A recent boost in memory technology has led to MP3 players and other products being used as portable memory devices.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005 |
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PORTOMASO, Malta — Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. will roll out in the second half of 2005 a scalable silicon architecture. The so-called "integrated platform" is scheduled for comprehensive use in Matsushita's Panasonic-brand home audio-visual appliances, mobile phones and portable audio-visual devices.
Details of Matsushita's new semiconductor strategy were disclosed here Monday (May 2) at the International Electronics Forum.
The architecture has been five years in the making, according to Osamu Nishijima, executive officer and vice president who is responsible for Matsushita's semiconductor unit. Nishijima said the integrated platform can be "optimized, with no compromise," in a variety of Panasonic products ranging from digital televisions, DVD recorders to digital cameras, MP3 players and cellphones.
Until its major strategy shift, Matsushita tended to focus on developing dedicated semiconductor platforms, optimized for individual products, "thus creating barriers between different product categories," Nishijima said.
Asked how its integrated platform differs from system-level platform approaches promoted by competitors like Philips Semiconductors, Nishijima said, "This is not about designing a system solution based on a media processor."
Under Matsushita's strategy, system designers will choose whether to add more hardware engines with a particular data parallel processor to different products. More important for the integrated platform is that "software deployed in each product looks exactly the same to the system, regardless a variety of choices made by system designers," Nishijima said.
Matsushita hopes to integrate into its new platform reconfigurable logic technology developed by Elixent, a Princeton, N.J., start-up. "When service providers offer new services, we will need the reconfigurability," said Nishijima.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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