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To be clear, these are pirates using replication equipment to knock off thousands of bogus copies of the latest hits. This is not related to 'home taping/downloading' at all. .< 2:23:58 AM  >Obese children facing health 'crisis' 
Twenty-five per cent of Canadian children are obese and face diabetes, high blood pressure and other health complications, according to a new study from the Canadian Paediatric Society. [CBC News] .< 2:20:29 AM >Yahoo groups in your news aggregator. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Cool! .< 2:18:06 AM >Keep bookmarks for multiple browsers in synch [Mac OS X Hints] .< 2:16:14 AM >Open Source Icons for OS X. Xicons.com “is an enthusiastic supporter of Open Source software. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new open source icon category.” [ranchero.com] .< 2:10:07 AM >Crest National and Philips to Manufacture SACD Hybrid Discs
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Hollywood, CA (June13, 2002)--
Royal Philips Electronics and Crest National, recently agreed to
partner in order to develop a Super Audio CD (SACD) hybrid disc
production line to be installed in Crest National's replication facilities
in Hollywood, CA. This is the first step of the agreement to jointly
develop hybrid SACD production lines, and to roll out SACD into
a mass-market proposition. The production line is scheduled to be
installed this summer, with full production by Fall of 2002. The first
line will have a production capacity of 3 million SACD hybrid discs
a year with more lines to follow. [ProSound News]
Korea (June 13, 2002)--After six months of planning, the opening
ceremony of the 2002 World Cup in Seoul was broadcast to an estimated
audience of half a billion worldwide. Inside Sangam Stadium, a crowd
of 64,000 enjoyed a surround sound experience from a multi-source
PA system. The system was designed by US project audio director
Michael Abbott to meet the requirements of production company
Cheil Communications, a subsidiary of electronics giant Samsung. [ProSound News] I've written a bit about this. .< 1:59:18 AM >A Gadget Burns Hours of Music Onto Discs the Size of Quarters. Slip a quarter into a slot, and you used to get a handful of peanuts or a three-minute phone call. Now iRiver is introducing a digital music player that both reads and burns discs no bigger than a quarter. Slip a disc into the iRiver iDP-100 player, and it's good for up to 11 hours of music. By Sarah Milstein. [New York Times: Technology] DataPlay uses a mini-DVD disc. omas showed it to us at our ("Toronto AES") day long meeting in May 2001. .< 1:56:47 AM >A Pair of Portable Speakers Puts a New Spin on Hot Air. Summer means inflatable: inflatable beach chairs, rafts, inner tubes, even the occasional giant blue banana. Now that Ellula HotAir has come to the United States, you can add speakers to that list. By Wilson Rothman. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:56:07 AM >A Top-End Camera From Fuji Tells Stories in 6 Million Pixels. Fuji's new 6.1-million-pixel digital camera will join the Nikon D100 and Canon EOS D60 in the top rank of digital cameras in terms of resolution. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:48:34 AM >Mosquito Murder: A Case of Acousticide. Recently there has been much talk in the mosquito control industry about one of the more innovative products to come on the market in years: the Larvasonic. By Heidi Schuessler. [New York Times: Technology] 'The concept is simple: Use acoustic energy to kill mosquito larvae before they can become biting adults.' .< 1:47:30 AM >Judge Denies Microsoft Request to Dismiss States. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) request that she throw out claims against it by nine states seeking stiff sanctions against the software giant. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:46:30 AM >An International E-Competition Relies on the High-Tech E-Piano. Yefim Bronfman will evaluate the finalists of an international piano competition using a Yamaha Disklavier Pro piano, essentially a 21st-century player piano. By Anthony Tommasini. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:36:56 AM >Darwin Meets the Digital Camera. Looking for the best 4-megapixel digital camera for summer shooting? Take a tour of 10 models and see which is the fittest. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]'I chose the Canon S40.' .< 1:35:17 AM >Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup!. France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up. [Salon.com] .< 1:25:09 AM >Sony, Universal to offer cheaper music downloads: "Record company giants Sony Music and Universal Music on Wednesday said they planned to soon offer cheaper and easier ways to download music from the Web in the industry's latest effort to stem on-line piracy." X .< 12:47:52 AM >Concours International de Montreal des Jeunesses Musicales - Entrevues: "Measha Brueggergosman: the voice of the future " An interview with Measha .< 12:44:03 AM >The Soundtracking of America, J. Bottum, The Atlantic Monthly, 6/12/2002 [La Scena Musicale - News] .< 12:37:32 AM >Surround Professional Item of the Day More Than 2000 People Attend Sanibel DVD-A Demos
Greensboro, NC (June 12, 2002)--More than 2000 people learned about and
heard DVD-Audio in presentations put on by Sanibel Sound in Greensboro,
NC and in New York. The Greensboro presentation was held on May 25 in
conjunction with AIX Media Group and featured Jeff Fritz of the Webzine
group SoundStage! Network. The New York presentation was held a week
later at the four-day HE 2002. Both presentations featured an array of Sanibel
Piega loudspeakers and focused on multichannel music. [ProSound News] |
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