Wednesday, 31 March 2004
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Holophone Launches H2-PRO Surround Microphone
Holophone, a division of Rising Sun Productions, Ltd., will launch its first commercial product, the Holophone H2-PRO surround sound microphone, next month at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 19 - 22. The H2-PRO surround sound microphone improves upon Holophone's beta system with a sleek new design that maintains the patented "head" shape, adds eight channel recording capability (5.1-channels plus a top channel and a center-rear channel), and has an improved connector and handle. [ProSound News]
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Blu-ray Disc to Deliver Five Times Disc...
Blu-ray Disc to Deliver Five Times Disc Capacity of DVD Discs With Comparable Costs Per Disc
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 29, 2004
-- Blu-ray Disc (BD) -- the next generation of optical discs for storing high-definition movies, photos and other digital content -- will have by far the highest capacity of any optical disc storage format ever developed for consumers with disc-making costs that are comparable to those for DVDs when manufactured at mass volumes, according to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), Royal Philips Electronics and Sony Corporation.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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World Court Rules U.S. Should Review 51 Death Sentences
The decision, by the United Nations' highest court, was seen as a moral victory in Mexico and as a stinging rebuke to the United States. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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170 arrests in Canada, U.S. drug bust...
170 arrests in Canada, U.S. drug bust
Police in Canada and the United States say they have smashed a drug ring
that had been supplying the U.S. with about 15 per cent of the drug
ecstasy.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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MapServer: Open Source Mapping
Let me briefly sing the praises of the open source MapServer project. If you're interesting working with web-based maps, you should give it a look: it's powerful, well-documented, well-supported and let's you create very powerful mapping applications.[Reinvented News]
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Aggreg8
Aggreg8 is a beautiful, simple RSS reading/managing application that runs inside Mozilla-based browsers. It's a great example of Mozilla software acting as a sort of "cross platform operating system." [pointer from Scripting News] [Reinvented News]
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Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is 150 years old
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges - known to most of us as Cte-des-Neiges Cemetery - is 150 years old this year, and the third largest in North America. [montreal city weblog]
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Mastering Digital Photography and Imaging, Chapter 1: Essential Digital Imaging Equipment. Pt. 2.
Today, we look at in-depth options when shopping for a digital camera. Topics include Professional Studio and Compact Cameras, Resolution, Recording Options, Operating Modes, White Balance, and much more. By Sybex. 0329 [WebReference News]
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Google Planning to Roll Out E-Mail Service
Google is planning to up the ante in its competition with Yahoo and Microsoft by unveiling a new consumer-oriented electronic mail service. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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Chinese Prosper in Canada, and Eagerly Read About It
The rise in the ethnic Chinese population has stimulated meteoric growth in the Chinese media and made them an influential player on the Canadian political landscape. [New York Times: International] 'Leaving the mainstream media out of the political dialogue is not unusual anymore in a city whose Chinese population has exploded from a tiny minority to 30 percent of all residents in just one generation. By making his pitch directly to the 40 percent of his district's voters who are ethnic Chinese, Mr. Chan was giving a nod to Vancouver's parallel worlds.
The Chinese population in Canada has doubled in the last two decades to 1.1 million, or more than 3 percent of all residents. But nowhere is its presence felt more than in this metropolitan area of 1.8 million, of which 342,665, or 19 percent, are ethnic Chinese, according to the 2001 census.'
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Americans murdered by Iraq mob
Bush administration condemns "despicable" attack in which four US civilians working in Iraq are killed and their charred and mutilated bodies dragged through the streets in front of cheering crowds. [Guardian Unlimited]
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