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A small Spanish company says it can use artificial intelligence technology originally developed for the banking and telecoms industries to predict if a record is going to be a hit or not. It boasts an impressive track record, having successfully predicted hot sales for Norah Jones and US band Maroon 5.… [Via The Register]. .< 11:41:39 PM  >Google goes VoIP? The Times has caught up on the rumour that Google is planning a Voice over Internet Protocol service: The company behind the US-based internet search engine looks set to launch a free telephone service that links users via a broadband... [Via Online] . .< 11:07:42 PM >Sony “Cleans Up” With Oxford Restoration Tools... At last week’s Winter NAMM Convention, Sony introduced the Oxford Restoration Tools Suite. More [Via Mix News] . .< 6:42:57 PM >Podcast to Cellphone How-To: Automatically Transfer A Podcast to Your Bluetooth Phone [Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] . .< 6:42:32 PM >Sound Seeing Tours Podcast Feed New Podcast Feed: Soundseeing Tours of the World Subscribing to this will bring soundseeing tours of the world to your ipod/mp3Player/cellphone/PC [Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] . .< 6:17:08 PM >Gibson CEO unveils digital guitar In a quiet meeting room one level above the NAMM show floor in Anaheim, Calif., Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz opened a guitar case revealing the future of Gibson instruments: a digital guitar. Eleven years in the making, Gibson's digital guitar will make its official debut in February and come equipped with a 1/4-inch plug and an Ethernet port. [Via MacCentral] . .< 6:07:02 PM >Tech at Sundance Wired News has an interesting article on how tech companies are trying to woo folks at the Sundance Film Festival: Shall We Do the Tech Sundance?
Calderon said he's stunned by the plummeting costs and improving quality of hardware and software -- and he's been immersed in video technologies since 1981.
Here's a link to the Sundance Digital Center schedule of events. [Via iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide] . .< 6:05:17 PM >Skype for Mac OS X Change Log 17.01.2005 Skype for Mac OS X Beta 0.14.0.4 "feature: conference calling”
Sweet . .< 2:00:14 AM >Hitting the low notes Friday morning hit a record cold temperature as the cold snap continues. [Via montreal city weblog] . .< 1:57:13 AM >PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column “If Apple hopes to emulate its iPod/iTunes success, what does that mean? It means selling hardware devices and proprietary content to play on those devices. The first such hardware device is probably the Mini. And the proprietary content will be video encoded in AVC H.264, which will be supported first in OS X 10.4, promised for the second quarter of this year. So Apple can't announce that it is in the movie distribution business until 10.4 (code-named Tiger) is available.” . .< 1:32:57 AM >Tips for Installing iPhoto 5 If you've just received your iLife '05 software, here are a few tips for upgrading to iPhoto 5. [Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac] . .< 1:31:52 AM >Mac Mini Review “But what Apple has given us with the Mac Mini is an elegant, useful, novel new option - a new choice at a new low price that we never ever had before.
And it's not just an extra choice, it's a great choice that's right for a wide variety of applications and needs. The Mini, as far as we can see right now, is a wonderfully useful, friendly, attractive Mac that exemplifies the best principles of the original Macintosh vision.” |
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