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Chats and Forums RSS FeedsMoto Looks To Get Its Mojo Back - Motorola, the world's third-largest handset maker, has just unveiled two new low-end phones on that allow users to listen to songs and surf the Web. Facing stiff competition from handsets such as Apple's iPhone and the Nokia line, Motorola has said it would launch 50 new devices this year, including advanced phones, trying to come up with a strong follow-up to its once-lauded Razr phone. One new handset is a music-enabled camera phone -- the W388 -- that sells for under $100. The second device is a low-end third-generation (3G) mobile phone -- the VE538 -...Feed Source: feeds.feedburner.com Presto! Intel Wants To Make Wires Disappear - Intel has made progress in a technology that could lead to the wireless recharging of gadgets and the end of the power-cord spaghetti behind electronic devices. It says it has increased the efficiency of a technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers, a development that could allow a person to place a notebook on a countertop to power it. This could bring the consumer electronics industry a step closer to a world without wires.The chip maker plans to demonstrate the use of a mag... Seinfeld To Battle Mac Guy in Ads - Microsoft, weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld. The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mac-loving Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say. (If you offer enough money ) I say, "No soup for you! See more at the ... Microsoft Debuts Its Surface 30" Interactive Screen at Sheraton - Microsoft is putting its touchy-feely side to the test at the Sheraton Hotel.The software giant recently showed off its new Surface technology at five Sheraton hotels nationwide. The demonstration allowed the public to get a feel for Microsoft's first fully touch-screen computer.The table-like Surface computer operates entirely through a 30-inch interactive screen, which works along the same lines as Apple's iPhone. But the Surface also recognizes and interacts with objects such as iPods and digital cameras that it comes in contact with, allowing users to edit photos or play music on the spot. The display, which rotates, can also recognize mul... Internet Finally Takes Off into the Clouds - American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights today, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband, according to a Reuters report. The world's largest airline said its passengers on Boeing 767-200 aircraft can pay $12.95 for Internet access on nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami. Airlines have been racing to get reliable Internet access on their flights in hopes of gaining a competitive edge in the troubled airline industry. (And making some money since the cost of fuel is sucking the life out of the industry.) Other... Oh No! Don't Spoil Our Fun! Wii Gets Slapped with Patent Infringement - Hillcrest Labs has apparently filed a complaint for patent infringement with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, D.C., and a separate patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland, against Nintendo, related to the Wii video game system. At issue are Hillcrest's U.S. Patent Nos. 7,158,118, 7,262,760, and 7,414,611, which relate to a hand-held 3-D pointing device, and U.S. Patent No. 7,139,983, which relates to a navigation interface display system that graphically organizes content for display on a television. Since 2001, Hillcrest Labs has pioneered technology that allows consumers to interact with digital media on television using mot... Apple's Battery Problems -- Now with iPods! - Remember not all that long ago when just about every computer notebook manufacturer was having problems with batteries -- like catching on fire! Now we have battery problems with cell phones! Apple is blaming a problem its problem with overheating iPods in Japan on faulty batteries.In r... Muxtape: The Day the Music Died (Again) - The music has stopped at Muxtape.com, the free, online music site that allows users to create a playlist or mixtape of up to 12 songs and share the list with friends. It was temporarily shutdown as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) flexed its copyright protecting musclea. The Manhattan-based startup has informed users that it "will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA." The RIAA has been cracking down on illegal sharing of copyrighted music on the Web for the past few years. Muxtape has previously said that it does not violate any copyright infringement laws because it is not an online service that allows consumers... AC/DC & Wal-Mart? Go Figure ... - Who would have figured that Wal-Mart would have become the exclusive retailer for classic rock bands coming back to life?In the latest news in this area, the king of retailers revealed that the new AC/DC album, Black Ice, will be sold exclusively in Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores starting in late October.The deal is part of a wider strategy for the world's biggest retailer to get exclusive deals to sell CDs. It is the latest album to be sold under such an arrangement, as Wal-Mart got exclusive rights to sell albums by the Eagles and Journey in recent months.(And don't forget that AC/DC has one of the all-time top selling albums -- can you believ... VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX SIP PBX-to-Skype gateway - VoSKY just announced the VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX, a SIP-to-Skype gateway product that bridges the Skype network with SIP-based IP-PBXs and SIP gateways. The VoSKY Exchange Pro VISIP-EX enables companies with SIP-enabled PBXs to add Skype trunks for inexpensive calling. This isn't the first SIP-to-Skype gateway, I've written about others here, here, ... Digium AA50 1.2 Software Released - Yesterday, Digium released version 1.2 for the Digium Asterisk Appliance 50 (AA50). It's been awhile since I've heard any news about the AA50, so I'm glad to see Digium is still developing for the AA50 even with their new Switchvox-based AA60 appliance offering and their even newer AA300 & AA350 offerings. Actually, I discussed whether Digium's AA60, AA300, and AA350 would compete against their original AA50 Asterisk appliance, which might be worth... You Be the Judge! At CES! - If you're a member of the press, an independent designer or an engineer, we want you! (Actually, the International Consumer Electronics Show -- CES -- wants you. And that is some show! This is one that draws hundreds of thousands of people so that the Las Vegas Convention Center -- and some other LV venues -- is filled to overflowing.)Here's what you need to know for now: Are you able to volunteer a little of your time to judge one of the most prestigious awards programs in the consumer electronics industry? Do you consider yourself a knowledgeable consumer electronics design professional, with expertise in any of the 34 Innovations... Amazon's Special MP3 Deals -- Indeed! - Image my surprise to receive this email the other day: Dear Amazon.com Customer,Amazon MP3 is offering free songs and albums as low as $5. All songs can be played on MP3 players, including the iPod and iPhone. Enjoy your music wherever and however you like it. I tried it, and I liked it!(But you will shocked and awed by the number of songs you don't want for free!)Amazon.com
Tags: amazon... What Economy? TV Sales Surge Anyway - TV shipments for North America hit record growth levels in the second quarter, despite a weaker U.S. economy.According to research firm DisplaySearch, TV shipments rose 28% compared to the same quarter last year to more than 9.3 million units, marking the strongest quarterly results since the research firm began tracking TV shipments in 2004. (No money to go out, so let's spend more time on the couch )Samsung was the leading brand for the quarter, with a record share of approximately 19% of all TV unit shipments in North America, and Sony took the No. 2 spot. Vizio also saw strong gains in PDP market share, ranking it the No. 3 su... AT&T CallVantage One Step Closer to Oblivion - As I predicted on July 3rd, AT&T would soon be dropping its CallVantage broadband VoIP service since they dropped their affiliate marketing channel.Well, today I learned that AT&T is no longer accepting ANY new orders from ANY source - affiliate or otherwise. The slow death of CallVantage is a bit sad, but it isn't particularly surprising, not only because they dropped the affiliate channel last month but as I have previously indicated, AT&T is heavily promoting... Jaybird Does Bluetooth (Headsets/Headphones) Nice - II've had the good fortune to give the Jaybird JB-100 Bluetooth Stereo Headset a workout, and it's been a good time.Now the JB-200 supersedes the groundbreaking JB-100 -- which boldly presented a new design in this field.The JB-200 offers the same great design, but now with:More control of music, with complete AVRCP Music and Call ControlsImproved fit, with 25% narrower ear-tipSound isolation, with 50% longer sound-isolating ear-tipsGreater comfort, with higher grade, softer silicon ear-tipsEnhanced audio experience, with 25% more volume and improved bass performanceClearer voice reception on phone calls, with relocated & upgraded micMore f... Anybody Still Playing RuneScape? - This was a monster massive online gaming experience not all that long ago, but has RuneScape seen better days?Is anybody out there still questing?Last time I looked there were almost 175,000 players online, but were you one of them?I must know
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Tags: cases, ... LCD Still Moving, but Is a Slowdown Ahead? - LCD TV sales grew 25% quarter-to-quarter in Q2, according to Quixel Research in its LCD TV Market Review. The growth was attributed to the availability of more screen sizes with less emphasis on 1080p models. While unit sales for the 32-inch and 40- to 42-inch screen size segments were up 22% and 26%, respectively, the new 19W and 22W models launched in the second quarter showed the most dramatic growth. Unit sales for the 19W segment increased 121% quarter-to-quarter, while the 22W segment was up 262% for the same time period. More sales equals more revenue to the tune of $5.5 billion in Q2 compared to $4.9 billion in Q1, according t... LG: #2 in Mobile and Trying Harder - LG Electronics, the South Korean mobile phone manufacturer, has overtaken rival Samsung to take second place in the U.S. handset market behind Motorola in the latest quarter. The figures, prepared by Strategy Analytics, a Boston-based research firm, underscore the popularity of several touchscreen-based handsets made by LG, including the Vu and Voyager (photo above). Both are sold by Verizon Wireless in competition with Apple's iPhone offered exclusively by AT&T in the U.S. More at the ... Mac Clone Maker in Trouble -- Did You Even Know about Mac Clones? - The Miami-based Macintosh clone maker that was sued by Apple has retained a law firm that has beaten Apple in the past, court documents show. Apple has charged Psystar with multiple counts of violating copyright, trademark, breach-of-contract and unfair-competition laws by installing Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel-based computers that it has sold since April. According to the lawsuit, Psystar violated the Mac OS X end-user licensing agreement (EULA) when it installed Leopard on its OpenComputer desktops and OpenServ servers, both which can be ordered from the company with Apple's operating ... Gaming Console Sales -- Who's on Top? - It's always interesting to me to keep tabs on what's selling and what's not -- the proverbial what's hot and what's not. Let's take a look at a favorite topic -- video gaming consoles. Amid a long rant on Advertising Age about how Sackboy has a good shot at lifting PS3, we learn that (drum roll please!) according to noted analysts NPD Group, through June, PS3 -- which got a later start than chief rival Xbox 360 -- had sold 4.9 million units vs. Xbox 360's 10.5 million and Wii's 10.9 million since their introductions. There, now that's settled
Tags: ... The Apple Is Never Dull ... - Never a dull moment in the land of Apple.(Who said tech is dull?) Just take a look at just some of the recent news (most of it today, in fact): 3 million iPhones sold in the first month (more here) iPhone 3G issues (more here) Problems with MobileMe (more here) Steve Jobs' health (is there a succession plan or does the company start and end with him?... Airport Gadget Kiosks from Best Buy - I've always enjoyed gadget browsing at airports (and maybe buying) and now Best Buy has upped that ante by announcing plans to add a dozen self-serve vending kiosks inside major airports across the country as part of a new pilot program called Best Buy Express. Best Buy is partnering with ZoomSystems, a San Francisco-based vending machine company, for the project that will install the small automated stores at eight airports by September 1. The machines will stock cell phone and computer accessories, along with digital cameras, portable data storage devices, headphones, travel adapters, electronic chargers and other gadgets. ... GTA IV for PC To Feature Expanded Multiplayer System - Gamers will see the release of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) for their platform of choice this fall. Game developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two have announced that the popular title will hit store shelves on Nov. 18. Naturally, gameplay in GTA IV will be a little different on the PC than it is on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, principally because gamers often use keyboards and mice instead of specialized controllers. However, Rockstar is adding what it calls a newly expanded multiplayer system just for the PC. One of the big draws fo... NanoLite's Got It Right! - We've all been there before -- trying to fit our key into a pitch black keyhole. Pick car or house, it's still a pain fumbling in the dark to get that darn key in there!NanoLite to the rescue!The world's smallest adhesive light (0.56" X 0.7" and 0.2" thick), it easily adhers to keys or any other flat surface and can be activated simply by pressing a small recessed button, which radiates a small but bright light. No tools or assembly are required. Just pull off the adhesive protector and stick it on the key it's that easy. Unlike old fashioned key chain lights that require two hands to operate, Nano... Text-To-VoIP Plug-in for MorphVOX Pro - Found a cool Text-To-VoIP Plug-In for MorphVOX Pro that allows you to speak over the Internet or soft-phone using customizable text-to-speech voices. Essentially it lets you type phrases/words, it converts the text-to-speech, and then plays it over your PC's audio connection. This plug-in allows you to type text messages to your friends over voice clients such as Ventrilo, MSN, Skype, softphones, World of Warcraft Voice Chat, Counter-Strike and other VoIP-enabled games. They claim the plug-in is helpful for people who cannot speak with their own voice or who would like a text alternative to communicating with voice. Or perhaps your just a shy, pimple-ridden male teenager whose voice is changing making you sound like a girl, so this is... The iPhone Kill Switch -- Something for Austin Powers? - Apple's iPhone "kill switch" has prompted much hand-wringing, despite the fact that no one knows exactly what it does. But the thing is, we just don't know. Until Apple explains why it has included this function, or an application appears on the blacklist and is wiped from someone's phone, it's all just the usual leaping to conclusions on a sleepy Friday in August, as reported on CNET. An independent iPhone developer and author recently discovered a URL while poking around inside the iPhone 2.0 software that downloads a list of "malicious" applications every so often to the iPhone. Several outlets quickly seized on this detail as proof that Apple is poised to remot... Monster iCarPlay Wireless 200 -- Yes, Indeed! - Stop fumbling with CDs or going without your favorite tunes, and start playing your iPod wirelessly through your car's FM radio. Monster iCarPlay Wireless 200 lets you enjoy all your music and keep your iPod charged up at the same time. With other FM transmitters, finding an FM frequency clear enough for use with your iPod can be time consuming and distracting -- especially while driving. The 200 incorporates exclusive Monster AutoScan technology that automatically seeks out and tunes in the clearest FM frequency available (excluding 87.7 and 87.9MHz). Now you can find the best station to enjoy your tunes with one touch of a button. In addition, iCarPlay clearly displays all essential infor... $100 Billion Worth of Gadgets - Chinese consumer electronics ("gadgets" to me and you) revenue will reach $100 billion by the end of next year, according to a new study by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and market researcher GfK. China is expected to grow full-year 2008 consumer electronics revenue 16.5%, the study went on to say. Now can you imagine what this figure might be if the global economy wasn't getting so sticky?
Tags: cea, china, ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Thanks LockerGnome. Have you worked on the IA planetary scanner? ... find 'sacrifice in the rgveda' - Hi All,
can someone upload the book 'sacrifice in the rgveda(Bombay 1953)' by K. R. Potdar.
thanks a lot. ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bounce the lighting off matte white reflectors.
Shape the reflectors to even the lighting.
The lights and reflectors need to be out of the view of the cameras reflected off the glass plate.
... Re: Greek letters - It appears to be the sort of garbage output from an OCR
engine trained only in latin scripts. The same mess happens at the beginning of many books where there is a mixture of fonts, particularly the t ... Re: Another removal - Done. ... Another removal - The author has asked that this be taken off
http://www.archive.org/details/PartnersInHateNoamChomskyAndTheHolocaustDeniers ... Commentarii in Vergilii carmina - I am sure I have browsed a latin commentary to Virgil's Bucolics. It must have been from Archive.org. However I cannot find such a text anymore, neither on the site nor on my harddrive. Have I dreamt? ... Re: Please remove - Somewhere Crumb is laughing his head off ... Please remove - http://www.archive.org/details/WhenTheGoddamnJewsTakeOverAmerica
Uh people who are familiar with the things I post know I don't shy away from sensitive issues, and like to post controversial things ... building news and engineering journal - My grandfather recently gave me the Building News And Engineering Journal Vol 29 1875.
I am trying to find out some more info on this publication.
How many were there printed? etc.
Would appreciate an ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Librivox can report what the circumstances are at his end of the node, not what is happening at the host server. I'm not meaning to be an appoligist for anyone, simply an observer of realistic expecta ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Believe me, kiteman, I also am grateful to those who operate the site. It has given me access to books which I could never hope to read otherwise. But gratitude is not the issue. The aim of the arch ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Your post states all of the reasons the host simply cannot do as you would ask. When you log on from (whether from Scotland or New York) your local lines, networks and servers have far more impact on ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - This is a good idea (P2P solutions). Duplication is the best form of preservation.
The thought has occurred to me of downloading a copy of every book (half-million or so) but then I did the calculat ... Re: How do Microsoft digitize texts? - Are they still digitising?
I though Microsoft have wound their digitisation initiative down... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Greetings!
I'm also concerned with this issue, and in addition for donations which are truly useful for other areas of the IA project as well, I really urge the Archive to make use of ... Attention Framen - The guy that likes to review some of the stuff I uploaded and is apparently an Aussie - I thought you might get a kick out of this
http://www.archive.org/details/PocketGudieToAustralia
Maybe we can ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - http://www.archive.org/details/ReportOnTheUsTrustTerritoryOfThePacificIslands_489
I keep getting a system slowness message, even though I haven't had the promblem with books of comparable size. Could ... Re: posting a new zine - =)
We feel like we've had a little car accident on the side of a motorway. So many passers by having a look, but no one stops!
Have we posted this question in the wrong place? or is it hard to answe ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - Thanks for the info, stbalbach. I understand that the site relies largely on voluntary sources and things don't always run smoothly because everything's stretched to the limit, but that's no excuse f ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - One thing we can all do to help is send in yearly donations. In the states we have Public Television (in the UK it is the BBC) - IA needs that kind of broad base user support, in addition to the fundi ... Re: Extremely slow download speeds - It seems that things can only get worse. I got a download speed of .9 kbps yesterday - yes, less than one kbps.
I happened to visit the Librivox website today, and they have an announcement that arc ... posting a new zine - Hello.
We had a bit of a look around, but couldn't find anything that obviously answered our question (so, sorry if we did miss something obvious).
We are about to start posting content for a new we ... Re: Copyright Question - I am just now working on a British author who died in 1934, whose copyright thus expired in 2004. A few of his books have been reissued in modern facsimile, i.e. not re-set by a publisher, so I don't ... Extremely slow download speeds - I've been collecting public domain ebooks for two or three years now, but only recently came across this truly fantastic site. I couldn't believe the range and quality of texts available - all for fre ... Re: Copyright Question - Correction-- it's late--- instead of Late 19th Century, read after 1911. Nothing before 1911 is still in copyright in the U.K, but after 1911 many works are, because the authors lived past 1945.
Bert ... Re: Copyright Question - P.S. to get Google off the hook a little, there is an interesting legal copyright problem concerning British authors who died after about 1945 or so. It also applies to other online American archives . ... Re: Copyright Question - Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Few people have noticed this about Google.
Unlike the now-gone Microsoft Live Book Search, oftentimes Google will make their clearly pre-1923 works unavail ... Re: Copyright Question - What about their pre-1923 scans that are inaccessible apart from snippits? There is a lot from the late nineteenth century. ... Re: Copyright Question - Thanks.. that's great news.
Now, if only Google will use them to do copyright checks on their post 1923 scans, and then release them if they're PD! (you can never ask for too much ) ... Re: Copyright Question - *mouth hangs open*
Thanks for the link, very useful! ... Re: Copyright Question - Coincidentally, Google just announced yesterday they have created a single database of all the copyright records from 1923-63 available for download.
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyrig ... Re: Please remove - Done. ... What happened to all of Microsoft Live's journal scans? - Related to the question right below, Microsoft claimed that they scanned a tremendous number of journal articles for their now defunct scholar search. Something like millions.
What happened to all o ... Re: Copyright Question - If the work was published before 1923, then it's in the public domain in the U.S., so anyone can use it.
After 1923, up to 1964, it's in the public domain unless copyright was officially renewed. All ... Re: Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Some of the better periodicals are often re-issued in bound volumes and thus get caught up in the scanning efforts so if your lucky they can be found - but I agree 100% periodicals have been a neglect ... Potential for a collections of newsletters, magazines, newspapers, comics? - Currently the Archive's concentration in the text sector is for books and e-books - however, there is generally many less ongoing efforts to save actual periodicals (magazines, newletters, newspapers, ... Re: DIY orbital scanner - Bump! ... Re: Copyright Question - The archive, as part of the scanning process, has tried to give hints to those that want to use the books. But the archive does not know about copyright-- it is insanely complicated.
So, you can use ... Re: Copyright Question - If it's in the public domain-- which is what 'not in copyright' means-- then you can do anything you want with it. You can even claim you wrote it yourself-- if you can get away with it
I believe ... Re: No support for "resume" downloads? - It's strange. I use XP with Firefox and Download Accelerator Plus, but the direct link from the Archive web page doesn't work right-- when the server gets queried a file size 'unknown' comes back as w ... Why don't more public libraries subscribe to JSTOR? - Glancing at a list of California libraries that are subscribers to the JSTOR database, I was amazed at how few there are-- and only one public library, San Francisco, as well as just a small number of ... Request regarding 'Sort by Date' function - Hello,
First of all I should say that I really, really, really love this website. Thank you!
My problem is that when I search for books and wish to sort them by the order of their published year (ie . ... Copyright Question - Hi,
I am new to this list. I live in the United States. Do I need written permission to transcribe, edit, and use the text from a book listed as NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT and which was submitted by Miscrosof ... Greek letters - I've opened several books including polytonic Greek texts like Polyaenus, P. Oxy vols 1 to 14 and tried to download the text files. While latin characters were OK, the Greek is a mess. It is not unico ... Re: No support for "resume" downloads? - The Archive supports http 1.1 for almost all downloads (and all book downloads), so it should work with resume. What platform are you having this issue with?
-brewster
... Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - The reason for the discrepancy must be that in the EU and so Britain, copyright extends 70 years after the death of the author, so a book published in the US in 1923 (and so out of copyright there now ... No support for "resume" downloads? - I have a slow connection, and would often use the "resume" download function of my browser to access Archive texts through Microsoft Live Books. It worked great.
But I notice that with dire ... Re: Has anyone else noticed this about Google Books? - By the same token, we can't access any of that great archive of 50's classical music recordings that are available in Europe!
BTW, when does the public domain kick-in in the U.K.? Here it's pre-1923 . ... PDF's in Windows/IE fixed -
A few readers have mentioned they have had a hard time with our PDF's in Windows/IE recently. (please tell us about these issues as they come up!)
It seems it has to do with the "linearizati ... Copyright © 2008, Real Estate Investment Tips. All Rights Reserved. |