Tuesday, March 22, 2005

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TV on your phone. For the time being eternal pros and cons.


Bertoluzzo An interesting interview with Paul, marketing director of Vodafone Italy, on the future of television for the next generation of phones. E 'was created by Business & Finance, insert the Monday of the Republic.
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Saturday, March 19, 2005

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Bloggers, more dangerous than Al-Qaeda.

The U.S. immigration office has prevented the entry in the United States to a Canadian named Jeremy Wright. The reason? The man told the customs to carry out the work of "bloggers". The officials did not want to hear excuses: you can not live by the blogger, have thought, and so have Wright then perquistio int errogarlo two hours before returning home.

On his blog
Jeremy Wright reports their version of events and publishes excerpts the comedian has been subject to interrogation.


Officer: Have you ever met the people who wants to see in America?
Me: No, but I talked to them.
Official: He with him the phone numbers of persons who must meet?
Me: No, but I've spoken many times over the Internet.
Official: Do not fool me you can not talk to someone without having his telephone number.
Me: No, actually, I spoke with them through my computer ... (And so on for two hours, with people who absolutely did not want to understand my answers ...)


Wright was headed to New York in the Big Apple was supposed to meet representatives of the publishing house McGraw-Hill. With the latter was discussing an important work project.

not surprise me if the Canadian blogger had inflated the story to get a gain publicity for his blog is for any book published by the McGraw-Hill.
Jeremy Wright has already received such accusations:
last post of his blog states that "at the end of each day, people always believe what you want to believe."

was real there would have to worry seriously.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

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viewers in handcuffs

rights issues relating to digital television broadcasts via satellite or digital terrestrial, already discussed in previous post , takes on even more importance when considering the provision of the FCC (U.S. Federal Communications Commission) that , from July 1, 2005, each device can handle images from digital terrestrial broadcasting, and then TV, personal video recorders, video recorders and others, will mount a special chip that will determine, case by case, restrictions on the use of the transmissions received.

This means that any TV series, drama, documentary, variety or steps on the small screen but it will not be burned or transferred to other media if the owners do not deem it appropriate, or shared over the Internet or within a home network.

All this talk these days
Repubblica.it , citing the website of 'Electronic Frontier Foundation (association for the defense of freedom digital) that defends "the right of users to receive and manipulate images from the DTT with the technologies that they consider most appropriate. "

believe that the position taken by the FCC and by those who defend the rights of television programs is not entirely justified. Too many forget the rights of consumers to safeguard the property of a few . However, the agitation of the television networks is understandable.


Someone says, until some time ago you could easily record anything to pass on the small screen thanks to a VHS, why now all this should be illegal? The reasons are essentially two: a) the quality of the images in the era of digital revolution and b) the ease of sharing television programs broadcast by pay TV.

a) The old VHS guaranteed with reasonable effectiveness of the private use of images on them: the quality of these recordings, which is insufficient when compared to programs broadcast over the air, to film a video store and, of course, films projected in a cinema, worsened significantly when trying to duplicate those tapes. In more than a few years ago, when VCRs were still being sold at a price, it was difficult to find in the house that you can connect two devices together to make copies of VHS. For this reason the tapes were a solution of convenience "by the user: they were used simply not to miss the fundamental point of a fiction or, at best, to keep their favorite movie just aired.

b) The introduction of digital technology and the resulting compression techniques have made sure that the images transmitted via satellite (or digital terrestrial) could be stored without excessive loss of quality. Since these transmissions encoded in MPEG-2, that is the format used by DVD, it is understood that the final outcome of adjustments is equivalent to that of a movie that you rent from Blockbuster or an episode of a TV drama output with any magazine. So why pay for these products when possible, thanks to a modern VCR with built-in hard drive, reduce costs to a simple blank DVD on which transfer all individually? Above all, why pay a subscription fee to a pay TV as Sky when, ten minutes after the airing of an episode of a TV series, the latter is already available to a quality more than acceptable on the Internet?

It makes sense that content producers and networks that distribute them to pay to be terrified. More curious is the fact that this fear, common to the evidence for years that the music industry has found a law immediately ready to exorcise it through a measure to say the least "dictatorship." The RIAA however, that the days of Napster fighting a hopeless battle with the pirates that are moving online, it only succeeded in imposing ineffective anti-copying audio CDs, easily circumvented through various software. I wonder if, at this point, the "enlightened" of the music business are also thinking of their total block of the digital radio, stereo and CD burning ...

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

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novel ends on BitTorrent TV Series: It is said to be a loss ...


In America a few weeks discussing animatedly about how to download TV shows, these are simple talk show or TV series via the BitTorrent file-sharing program, known for its system of "download" chain (for which most are the people who download a file detrminato higher the rate at which it arrives in their computer).

The major television networks, both free and pay, of course, are concerned about lost revenues and, if already one hour after airing the last episode of CSI you can download it from the network who, for a link between posessori Broadband Internet, would prefer to spend money to buy it on DVD? For the same reason many criticisms have been made to services like TiVo, personal video recorders that record on a large hard-disk-like set-top box transmissions to which the user can not attend live. In theory, these recordings are also protected by copyright (all the more which, as compressed files can be easily transferred to your PC and shared with other people).

Alongside those who complain but there are already those who try to take advantage of the situation. It appears that on BitTorrent these days is over the pilot episode of a new BBC series, Dr. Who, not yet aired. Two assumptions: either the file has been stolen, as often happens in Hollywood films that populate the directory of hundreds of people even before their official release, or is this action taken by the BBC to raise a fuss media (The news was echoed by Wired ) and then attract even more attention to the start of the evening TV in question.

The second hypothesis is reinforced by the fact that it was the BBC late last year had loudly declared his intention to use the Internet to transmit their programming. Last November, Keith Little, a network of responsaili of English, spoke about the ever-increasing demands of TV on demand by viewers:
The BBC will develop its own media player through which Internet users will be able to watch at their leisure programming in the last 14 days


Tuesday, March 15, 2005

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Name that tune! You ask a favor, they make it a business.


not know about you, but the undersigned has happened several times to receive a call from a friend who, breathless voice, asked what was the title and the author of the song you were listening to the radio at that very moment.

in America have developed a system certainly more reliable: it is called SongLink'd and is a convenient service that allows you to receive information about the song you're listening through your mobile phone.

how it works: you call a number, follow the voice instructions and put the terminal as close as possible to the sound source so that SongLink'd to record a clip of about 15 seconds. Following the service analyzes the recording and, if unable to locate information relevant to the song recorded, send sms to all who made the request.

Everything costs 99 cents to "Question", scaled directly from their phone bills. You do not pay anything but if SongLink'd fails to recognize the song.


We are faced with the practical application of an idea that several times has been widely among consumers has always been at the bottom there is a need to immediately recognize a new song or the song of a planned super spot.

rightly says Mike Pears, the head the company behind SongLink'd: "Now there is music everywhere and we want to change the mode of purchasing the music lovers." Among the information sent by SongLink'd fact, there is also a link to the site from which you can download the song requested or the corresponding ring.


Monday, March 14, 2005

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The phones of the future? If the singing and if the sound ...


"Mobile phones can make even simple calls?" Is more or less the sense of title of an article published by Cnet News these days . And it is easy to grasp the irony against terminals rated more allintrattenimento users through music, movies and photos in high definition.

The confirmation of this trend's entertainment came from the two most important exhibitions of ICT (Information & Communications Technology) beginning of the year: the CeBit in Hanover and the CTIA in New Orleans.
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and other global telephone industry giants have shown in these locations because they have already worked on entertainment-related functions, and in particular to the reproduction of music, and what they can offer in the future products that are yet to be developed to the fullest. So while the Nokia has in mind to install on all its products a Camera 'base' of at least 1 mega-pixel, Sony and Samsung emphasis instead on the music: it is the H-i300, SCH-series, with built-in 3GB hard drive and software like the Windows Media Player able to read in addition to the MP3 file format Ogg Vorbis and AAC (the compression that iTunes offers songs through its online music store).




Just the phone from Samsung opens new and exciting horizons up to now fill your phone with MP3 music was anything but simple. Smart Phone on the market today allow you to install software that can play music, is true, but face serious limits on the ability to file storage. The most common memory cards up to a maximum is 512 Mb / 1Gb and still be expensive for the pockets of average consumers who once bought the phone, rarely buy accessories that go beyond the sleeve or faceplates.

What producers are trying to do, with models like the Samsung or the Sony Ericsson W31S , is summarized in the mobile terminal only the fundamental features that a PMP (Portable Media Player) should have: digital photography , CD quality music and movies in MPEG-4. Of the three options only the latter is still far from its full implementation: Although we are making huge efforts in this direction, the latest generation of mobile phone screens are still, in most cases, small and unreliable. You can support the vision of a music video for example, but it is difficult for the average user prefers to watch a movie or even a short film on the screen of a mobile phone rather than on other PVP (Portable Video Player) as Archos and the like that at least provide sharper images and brighter.

Someone is thinking also to 'move' TV on mobile phone: just at CeBIT, Siemens has introduced a series of prototypes that can receive the signal DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) and which one is for its digital terrestrial broadcasts. In other countries, like Finland and Korea, this is already being tested.




For now, however, companies invest about playing music, following the success of the portable MP3 players. Also because it would undoubtedly be convenient for end users, eliminating a bulky gadget (often accompanied by his feeder) from the pockets of his jacket and have songs and calls on one terminal. In this sense, is emblematic of the Motorola-Apple alliance for the production of the much iPhone, the mobile phone that could replace the iPod and allows the download of iTunes songs directly on your mobile.




however, is dangerous to assume that people feel the need for a single multimedia device. And not only because, to date, it is very piùdivertente play on the baby or PSP to watch movies on an Archos player rather than do both through its small capacity (both memory usage and battery) to a mobile phone. We should not tralsciata the possibility, however remote, that people continue to see the different media separately, and users' preferences vary depending on the tasks they wish to do. Just analyze the iPod phenomenon, more social than technological: the player from Apple, thanks a unique design that has made him something of a status-symbol, has crushed the competition and was elected to a fetish-car technology to expose, to touch, to combine with a thousand and one accessories customized products, as well as a little girl would enrich their own set of dolls with clothes are always new.

It's just a feeling, but the buyers still do not seem willing to devote their attention to a single gadget. And even companies that seem so determined to focus on convergence, will really be able to combine proprietary formats on mobile phones, software and languages \u200b\u200bthat already affect the compatibility between different hardware and applications? This is also an important point to clarify, as the future compatibility will play an even more central since the transmission and reception of data will be done wirelessly. Today, in fact you can afford to buy an MP3 player can not be used with iTunes, the problem is around when you buy music through another online music stores like Napster. But tomorrow will be more complicated click through a cell phone probably will replace any portable media, and therefore needs to ensure maximum performance and reliability.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

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The "New Order" promotion.


The age of the objects "Sentient" is upon us. In the future, a book or a cup of coffee can transmit and store information, ready to be issued to those who have the right password or, if publicly available, to those who "intercepts" any instrument with a wi-fi.

An example of such technology will be launched shortly in the HMV music store in London and Manchester, where electronic posters pubblicizzanti the new album from New Order, Waiting For The Sirens Call, will also be able to transmit on the cellular customers shop song clips, photos and ringtones on the English group. All thanks to the infrared transmission and bluetooth.

"The technology has always provided us great motivation and we would like our new album reflects this," said drummer Stephen Morris.


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Life Was Random. Long before the iPod.


After discovering a blatant "copy" of the iPod Shuffle , the alleged Super Shuffle, I read the report I4U on a portable MP3 player with flash memory of the Bang & Olufsen.



Like the iPod Shuffle this product, called BeoSound 2, is devoid of shade and a performance based on "random" the songs in his memory. Unlike last
Aplle the player born in the house B & O was even launched in 2002.

BeoSound 2, still on the market, costs about $ 400. The iPod Shuffle 99 €.

Friday, March 11, 2005

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iPod Shuffle? No. .. Super Shuffle!



If it is not the usual "hoax" Launched this is unbelievable:

this is obviously the iPod Shuffle, available directly from the Aplle:
http://www. apple.com / uk / ipodshuffle /

and this, that's incredible, is the Super Shuffle, incredible imitation "Made in China":
http://www.luxpro-corp.com/e_575d.htm

The resemblance is unbelievable, indeed, it is imitation of a real (even the headphones of the two photos are identical). Super Shuffle also provide, in addition to 1 GB flash memory, the ability to listen to radio and voice recording. In
Network has already sparked debate: better than the original or, if it were sold at a lower price, copying with a lot of FM radio and voice recorder?

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Farewell to CDs, comes TunePlug: a USB stick with the "stuffing" of music.


seems almost impossible not to have thought of before: use USB sticks, small (64 Mb to 512 Mb) with MP3 files of artists and then sell it all cheap. The idea of \u200b\u200b Magnatune, a small record label operated on-line and the product is called TunePlug. The price ranges from about $ 19 USB sticks from 64 to about 70 Mb of 512 Mb for that. In addition to the support, of course, be used as a small external flash drive, the Magnatune offers ten complete albums of his most interesting artists (selection on the sentence to be & 4 Mb, the complete collection on the largest).

TunePlug certainly represents a new and effective way to distribute music, not so much for the support you choose, which for now is fully compatible only with PCs, but for the supply of music files already encoded in MP3, and therefore ready to listen and through portable devices or by using the latest mobile phones.


Years from now, if you resist the current music store, we could find on the shelves many "keys" instead of CDs. And besides the latest developments could occur at this point, "complete discography". Seventy dollars in cash and so on: you leave the store with the entire musical production of the Oasis in the pocket of his jacket.

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

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access everywhere. Download understood. A WYSIWYG


We had talked about an application for iTunes, accesTunes , which allows you to share with other users connected to the Internet or a local network (and obviously in possession of the same program) that it music library.

And it was said that: "The songs are in listening mode" streaming ", partly because any download options would contribute to the rapid formation of a network of libraries iTunes to download music illegally."

Well, yesterday I came across a rather interesting and fun
post , then picked up by Wired, the owner of the blog wrote that he had approached a girl just by sharing iTunes libraries.

The interesting thing is that the two boys have used another programa similar to accesTunes called
ourTunes , which allows is to listen to songs on another PC connected to the Net, and download them directly to your hard disk. The "benefits" of this program, created by a group of students, are seeker free: it is also why the software has already been downloaded by 350,000 users.

Considering the large number of people who, today, have iTunes installed on their computers and manage our main music attrverso this, there is every reason for the imminent development of a new file sharing system. All using the mark "coolest" of the moment, that is the apple of Apple.

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"We are analog beings trapped in a digital world:" this is most probably the most famous phrase attributed to Donald Norman .
E this for the moment, is the most convincing practical application of this concept (at least for me).

Sunday, March 6, 2005

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traveling

The Atlanta company that operates the subway, the city has decided to "install" in each of the 230 trains at its disposal flat screens on which channels telvisivi see and to listen, willing, satellite radios. Each passenger will be able to follow what happens on the monitor, and consequently isolate themselves from others, on tuning specific freuenze through any FM receiver and, of course, a pair of headphones ( LINK).

The TV then leaves the house and follow us in our move. Before that, however, that our means of transport to adapt to this solution is useful not only for entertainment but also for the informative aspect (live better news for the city or the same subway line, for example), other small TV will already have made their entrance into our lives away from home. The Portable Video Player will flood the market for audio-visual replacing all other gadgets, including iPods. And come to merge with the smart-phone: TV, radio, Internet, photos, music and games on the same platform, always at hand.

Saturday, March 5, 2005

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TV Radio online, podcasts, and philosophy of the "little box".


KCRW, Santa Monica's famous radio station from that time forward successfully on-line, decided to plunge into the world of Podcasting making available on its website, a twenty downloadable audio files and transfer them to your MP3 player.

files, unfortunately, apply only to the talk shows that enrich the programming of KCRW. The radio station U.S. states:
"KCRW has Received Inquiries Regarding ITS podcasting music programs. While downloading programs from the Internet is Technically feasible through a variety of software programs, KCRW does not ITS Encourage listeners to download music programs. Nor does the station Make Them available as podcasts. Legal constraints and copyright issues currently inhibit Our ability to offer listeners Our Music shows as podcasts.

The summary is this: KCRW does not encourage its users to download their music programs, copyright law also prevents them from making such programs available for download. A device useless and only form, the issuer, as has long been spread among the sailors used to record, through applications such as Streamripper (for Winamp), the programs broadcast in streaming radio from operating on-line.

I am convinced that a record Internet radio is nothing new so shocking to be put forward in the interests of record companies. Even before the advent of digital listeners record their favorite radio programs, or a single track through your home stereo and the now legendary "cassette".

The problem, as regards the recordings from online radio, concerns the quality of the file archived. Many stations are encoded in MP3 at 128Kbit / s (the "standard" which is close to CD quality) to offer its listeners a decent sound and not comparable to that offered by traditional stereo radio or the emerging satellite.

The problem is that compression so "rich" puts the audience in an ideal position to record music, trattarala with any audio editor (thus eliminating precisely, for example, the last words of a DJ who is presenting each) and then burn it to CD or transfer it, as in the case of Podcasting on an MP3 player.

would be enough to then use a slightly lower quality, such as to make you appreciate the "original" of the CD or MP3 files for sale on-line, to please everyone: the music industry on the one hand, and the listeners on the other, enabling them to follow in "deferred" their favorite music programs and then go to buy songs from the most interesting among those proposed.

Friday, March 4, 2005

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Other than "capsule hotels" in Japan. Ana Rewakowicz , "artist" Poland now living in Canada, has designed a special "inflatable dress" can be worn and "experienced". During the day may serve as a waterproof at night takes on a cylindrical outside repairs like a shell. And when they reach the age of the mu-chip, chip, or incredibly small, with sides no longer than four tenths of a millimeter, what we will see the Sleeping Bag Dress (the name of the invention Rewakowicz) will not simply be a starry sky . The plastic it will be the monitor, and all kinds of information will wirelessly into our "bag worth living." To those who still give the bum?