One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 16 March 2004

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Fraunhofer Institute Debuts MP3 Surround

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS will launch its brand new MP3 Surround technology at the CeBIT telecom and IT trade show in Hannover this week. A next generation of MP3, MP3 Surround technology provides a multichannel listening experience with minimum effort and maximum compatibility, according to the company. [ProSound News]

< 9:14:55 PM >

Sonic Studio Ships ATRAC3plus Encoding Software
Plymouth, MN, Mar. 16, 2004 -- Connect, Sony's new music service which is due to launch in the spring of 2004 will support the ATRAC3plus format.

"We are pleased to be the first to market with an encoding tool for this promising new format," said Jeff Wilson of Sonic Studio, LLC. "ATRAC3plus is sonically superior to existing compression schemes at similar bit rates plus it is part of a much more secure DRM system." Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]

< 9:06:19 PM >

The software giant announces a program to help governments produce local versions of Windows and Office. Is it a response to overseas pressure from open-source products? [CNET News.com]

< 8:57:56 PM >

Scott Rosenberg: "Those darn Spanish voters -- they just don't do what George Bush wants them to do." [Scripting News]

< 8:54:39 PM >

Here is a first example: I'm publishing in RSS format a collection of quotes, s l a m:shorts, that I gather while reading my subscribed feeds in Radio Userland's aggregator.

I then auto-syndicate this content into other pages published with Radio, such as this one, by placing activeRenderer's rssbox macro into my pages' template, producing the column on the right if you are reading the HTML version of this story. For an alternate, non outlined result, I could have used Userland's xml.rss.viewRssBox macro.

Since the s l a m:shorts feed is available on the Web, there's nothing preventing other like-minded publishers to do the same.

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Simon Carless: RSS and BitTorrent, Sitting in a Tree. [Scripting News] 'If users are unable to upload as they download, all your bandwidth savings are lost, and this seems to happen with a certain percentage of users on LegalTorrents right now.'

Lots of dreaming right now but plenty of practical issues to be resolved.

< 12:53:28 PM >

Access free of charge [The Register] 'Essentially, the programme is a co-marketing deal. The location makes sure the AMD logo is prominently displayed and agrees not to charge users for Internet access. In return, AMD will promote the network and its constituent hotspots.'

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European antitrust regulators are united behind Mario Monti, their top antitrust official, on his proposed finding that Microsoft has abused its dominant position in the software market. [New York Times: Technology]