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Smartphone

Books on your cellphone?

China has established their first distribution of electronic books in multiple mobile standards including SMS, WAP, or IVR which can be read by short messaging systems. This is also available on the internet.

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Education

Real hijacking QuickTime

Regardless of your best intentions companies like Real and Microsoft hijack files.

Real has been caught hijacking QuickTime movies in this format: rtsp://qt.WBR.com/enya/videos/qt/some_enya_movie.mov. You can clearly see this directory is for QuickTime because the directory is named “QT” yet Real’s Player hijacks the movie and unsuccessfully tries to play it inside it’s own RealPlayer application EVEN THOUGH Real’s application was never configured to playback RTSP video streams. Can’t we all just get along?

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Education

Audio’s new sweet spot

As technology has triggered amazing digital high definition televisions to the marketplace audio advances seemed to have been left behind. A new sound system that has been developed can place sounds in a theatre to seem like the origin of the sound is outside the building. Audience members can also hear footsteps move in unison from left to right or hear someone on screen whisper with the sound projected to their left ear.

The company who has developed this technology also built the .mp3 format used today by everyone downloading music and listening on desktop, laptop and mobile devices.

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Milwaukee

Microsoft to launch Blogbot

Well if you have not considered blogging important – now you can … Microsoft has announced it will launch a blogging service. It will be initially launched in Japan.

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Smartphone

Blog from your PalmOS

HBlogger is a new blogging client for Palm OS devices. Send your posts while you are mobile.

If you are experienced blogger with multiple blogs, you can prepare and send posts to several blogs. HBlogger supports Live Journal, Blogger and Movable Type.

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