One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 20 October 2003

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Sony Expected to Cut Thousands of Jobs

The Sony Corporation will cut 15,000 to 20,000 workers from its 160,000-person global work force by March 2006 as part of a revamping. [New York Times: Technology] 'Sony, which in April stunned investors by reporting a quarterly loss of almost $1 billion, also plans to halt domestic production of cathode ray tubes for televisions by the end of next year, the business daily said.'

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Apple's Windows music store leads its rivals in ease of use and distribution. Together with Musicmatch and Napster, it will catapult legitimate music downloads into the mainstream. [CNET News.com]

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Reasonably priced secure downloads. Compensation for writers and artists. Peaceful alliances between publishers and online distributors. A utopian vision for the music industry? [New York Times: Arts]

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Ed Cone: "The most powerful piece of software inside Microsoft may be the $40 application from a tiny vendor called Userland that Robert Scoble uses to write his weblog." [Scripting News]

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iTunes for Windows hits one million downloads. Apple sold one million songs in just a few days. Apple's all about the millions lately... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac] 'Apple is on fire. This is a huge time for us Mac fans. And I think we should all get together and give a big welcome to Windows users (and don't forget the I-told-you-so's!).'

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Several articles about Apple including 'Why I Have to Write About Apple'

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Chris Breen reports on the issues involved in recording to the iPod with something other than the Belkin Voice Recorder. [MacInTouch]

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At last week's AES (Audio Engineering Society) convention in New York, BIAS Inc. announced and showed SoundSoap Pro and Peak 4 with Power Mac G5 DSP (Digital Signal Processing) optimizations. [MacCentral]

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A technology for generating electricity from water for use in small devices could pave the way for devices such as liquid-powered mobile phones. [CNET News.com] 'Canadian scientists have developed a method of generating electricity from water for use in small devices, which could pave the way for products such as liquid-powered calculators and mobile phones.'

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In a Newsweek interview, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said maybe Microsoft will choose not to enter the online music retail business and that Apple would love to offer a really inexpensive iPod. [MacCentral]

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On Monday Apple announced that more than a million copies of the iTunes for Windows software have been downloaded in the first three days following the software's release. The company also said that more than a million songs have been purchased in the same period. By comparison, when the iTunes Music Store first launched in late April exclusively for Mac users, it took Apple about a week to hit the million songs sold mark. [MacCentral]

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Ottawa dispatch: A Canadian-Syrian computer engineer finds fears about terrorism make it hard to clear his name, reports Anne McIlroy. [Guardian Unlimited]

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African women are 175 times more likely to die in childbirth than Westerners, a UN report says. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Closing in on a Maestro, Arthur Kaptainis, Montreal Gazette, 10/19/2003 [La Scena Musicale - News] 'To hear a rumour three times, from independent sources, lends it weight and prestige. And that is how often I have heard that the Montreal Symphony Orchestra has already chosen its music director but will make the announcement in the new year.'

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Jack Todd does a nice tribute to Jean Bs 50 years with the Habs. [montreal city weblog]