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Friday, 18 February 2005 |
Another Net radio revolution
Washington Times, DCEach
month, the Browser features some pop-culture places on the World Wide Web
offering the coolest in free interactive sounds and action.
Casting for Pods
Listening to radio via the Internet has become commonplace, but the latest
buzzword in high-tech aural programming is "podcasting," which gives almost
anyone with a computer, broadband connection and decent microphone the chance to
become the next Howard Stern.
Amateur broadcasters simply record and turn their ramblings into an MP3 format,
and listeners from around the world can freely download their shows into an
appropriate player (like Apple's iPod, thus the term podcasting) " or just
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Friday, 18 February 2005 |
Panasonic sets goal of overtaking Sony
Bangkok Post, Thailand
Chiang Mai _ The local distributor of Panasonic has set a goal to overtake Sony
as the leader in Thailand's fast-growing market for digital still and video
cameras over the next three years.
The target is consistent with the global strategy of Japan's Matsushita Corp,
the parent of Panasonic, to introduce five new models of digital video cameras
to meet the needs of various market segments and lifestyles, said said Yoshihisa
Maenaka, the sales and marketing director of Panasonic Siew Sales (Thailand) Co.
The new products are expected to help increase the market share of Panasonic
digital video cameras to 30%, valued at 840 million baht, of the estimated total
market size of 140,000 units this year. The company is seeking a share of 35-40%
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Friday, 18 February 2005 |
Unlock Protected Music
ABC News
When you buy music from an online store, the copy-protection scheme may not
allow you to play it on your portable player or to manage your music library
with that player. The most commonly offered suggestion for unlocking these music
files is to burn a copy to an audio CD and then reimport it. We challenged the
conventional wisdom to see if there was a better way—and there simply isn't. If
your machine can handle rewritable discs, the process isn't even wasteful. Just
follow the directions in your media player or online store software to burn
tracks to a CD. The process is digital throughout, so you don't have to worry
about recording levels or codecs. Once the file is in CD format, you can then
reimport it into any other format.
For example, if you buy music from Napster, it's delivered to you in protected
WMA format. If you want to play it on your iPod, you have no choice but to burn
it to CD and import it as an MP3 file that your iPod can handle. Likewise,
iTunes delivers its music in a locked MP4 format that's keyed to your software.
How to Unlock Protected Music The inherent problem is that you'll never get a
better-quality recording than the source, and the fidelity of music from the
online stores often leaves something to be desired. The common
128-kilobit-per-second MP3 lacks dynamic range, and 128-Kbps WMA chops off the
highest frequencies and sacrifices midrange dynamics for bass dynamics. When you
move songs in these formats to CD, their sonic flaws move with them. When you
reimport the song using another compression scheme you can compound the problem,
because the other scheme might take away dynamic range, frequency response, or
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Friday, 18 February 2005 |
Class-Action Suit Filed Against Apple
Forbes
Just before a bill to curb class-action lawsuits headed to President
Bush for signing, Apple Computer was targeted in a class action.
The lawsuit, which the new law won't affect, was filed Thursday in California
Superior Court in San Francisco on behalf of consumers and resellers of Apple (nasdaq:
AAPL - news - people ) products. It seeks to include in the consumer class any
person in the U.S. who purchased Apple products or repair services since Jan. 1,
1995, except for someone affiliated with Apple or the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs allege that Apple failed to fully honor service contracts and
warranties, didn't get repair and service businesses properly licensed, stole
trade secrets from its own resellers, and sold used computer equipment as new.
They are charging Apple with Unlawful Business Practices, Misappropriation of
Trade Secrets, Breach of Contract, and violations of the Consumers Legal
Remedies Act and the Song Beverly [Consumer Warranty] Act.
Apple could not be immediately reached for comment on the lawsuit.
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