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Canon's new Vixia HF10: The best (and first) camcorder I've ever owned: About a month before my wife gave birth (which explains where I've been the past few weeks), I got a great piece of purchasing, errrr, parenting advice, from my friend Joe via IM: "though you prolly already have this covered, use this as an excuse to buy photo and...; Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Fall football online: Yahoo Sports scores touchdown, Fox Sports MySpace on offense: Fall football online: Yahoo Sports scores touchdown, Fox Sports MySpace on offenseFantasy FootballI just found this great new fantasy football video application on my Sprint cell phone. You can set up your fantasy team, then you get weekly video highlights sent right to your phone. And you can change...; Tags: Corporate communications, video quality, Yahoo Sports score, video, FOX Sports, phone, MySpace, Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-11-13
Another reason intel is in trouble: Another reason intel is in troubleIts happening in Japan and KoreaPeople are using Cell phones as their all-in-one computer appliance. Other than replacing the PC, it is also replacing the traditional land line phone. And now with the MP3 abilities of these phones, they are replacing broadcast audio radio. The...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Semiconductors, Processors, Wi-Fi, Steamroller, video quality, tool, phone, cell phone, Cell, Intel Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., chip, PC, WiMAX; Discussion threads 2006-08-21
Joint Power-Distortion Optimization on Devices With MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Codec: Energy supply is always a bottleneck in wireless video applications. To prolong the battery life, a typical wireless video encoding and streaming system should have the capability of dynamically adjusting its encoding parameters based on the remaining battery supply. This paper considers two types of application scenarios as well as...; Tags: Optimization, Power Consumption, MPEG-4, Wireless Video, Video, Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Marketing; White papers 2006-05-03

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Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15

No, really, we're studying physics: I've only recently discovered the joys of roller coasters; according to my 13-year old, I have a very manly scream. I guess that's a compliment. Regardless, I'm taking my physics class to Six Flags New England (made possible in part by a generous donation from Rocky's Ace Hardware,...; Tags: Physics, Insurance, Financial Planning, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-15
OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks: Here's something that fans of building their own PCs will be interested in - OCZ has launched a build-it-yourself gaming notebook kit. The idea is simple. You buy a kit (currently there's no word on pricing but the wording on the OCZ website suggest that this will...; Tags: Game, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta: We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...; Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600: Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...; Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The newspaper's last stand: Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...; Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510: As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Happy Family Electronic Album (rar): Happy Family Electronic Album help you manage your pictures, photos, with 150 transform effect, and generate a complete electronic photo albums or VCD, DVD format paper to facilitate burning of CDs. The CD which will be able to directly broadcast. It is simple that Happy Family Electronic Album operate ,...; Tags: Theme, Picture, Photograph, GuangZhou HwaFull Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2008-05-15
Business PCs are going nowhere fast: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....; Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-14
News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day: Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...; Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?: Writing in today's Financial Times, Digital Business supplement editor Peter Whitehead offers a different interpretation on Web 3.0 to that which readers of this blog might be used... "Web 2.0 is a world in which anyone can have a go at generating content; Web 3.0...; Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts: IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and needs of other network traffic on a converged infrastructure....; Tags: Deployment, QoS, Telephony, Performance, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Performance Management, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Webcasts 2008-05-14
Personal Diary Lite (exe): This is a Personal Diary/Journal Software. You can also add pictures, audio and video recordings in the diary entries. Multi-user support is available, so your account is password-protected. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Video, Aditya Bhatt, Corporate Communications, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-05-14
iBizCard (exe): iBizCard is an easy-to-use Business card design software which supports production of various kinds of Business card, Staff card, Membership card and Interactive CD business card. With its built-in templates of different categories and detailed video tutorials and explanations, you can design your unique business card in an instant. There...; Software downloads 2008-05-14
ConvertVid (exe): ConvertVid is software product for converting videos from one format to another. If you have iPod, mobile phone or want create DVD this product is just for you. With ConvertVid you will be able to convert any video file to DivX, XVid, AVI, WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2, H.264, FLV, RealVideo, 3GP,...; Tags: Apple iPod, Nuclear Coffee, ConvertVid, Digital Media, Digital Music, Digital Video, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-05-14