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Computer System Consistently Makes Most Accurate NCAA Picks

Sports professionals and fans get pretty emotional about their picks for the NCAA basketball tournament each year, and that emotion often clouds their judgment.
But three engineering professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a computer ranking system, called LRMC, that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than the AP poll of sportswriters […]

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Sonos And Pandora Personalize The Radio Experience In The Digital Home

Sonos, Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the digital home, today announced a new release of Sonos System Software v2.2 that will bring Pandora* to the award-winning Sonos Digital Music System. Pandora, the developer of the ground-breaking personalized radio service, and Sonos have collaborated to provide music lovers with an exciting […]

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SongSlide - Sliding Scale Pricing For Indie Music

Devin Brewer of SongSlide writes:
Dear Chris,
I thought you might be interested in blogging about a new site that I’ve co-founded called SongSlide that lets consumers pick the prices they pay for independent music. You can check out the site at songslide.com. We’re a small startup founded by two musicians, but we’ve recently been blogged about […]

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Release Of Cruxy.com v1.0 Announced!

Cruxy is launching its 1.0 release today! After a six + month beta and lots of feedback from the user community, Cruxy is ready for the world!
So what is Cruxy?
Cruxy is a media marketplace providing independent content creators with a rich set of tools to promote, monetize, and distribute their digital work. Cruxy publishers […]

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Winners Of 11th Annual Webby Awards Announced

The winners of The 11th Annual Webby Awards will be saluted alongside a remarkable slate of special achievement honorees, including rock legend David Bowie, eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman on behalf of the eBay community, and the co-founders of YouTube, at the June 5th gala in New York City, Webby organizers announced today.
The Webby […]

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Achieve Harmony

I’ve been a huge fan of the Logitech Harmony line of programmable universal remote controls for quite some time. And my new Harmony 880 just reinforces my opinion that these are truly fantastic devices.
I was humming along just fine with my Harmony 659, the most basic Harmony model. It was setup to run my main […]

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Holiday Shoppers Will Be “WOWed” This Season by New, SRS-Tuned Sharper Image Audio Products

SRS Labs Inc., a leading provider of surround sound, audio and voice technologies, and Sharper Image Corporation (NASDAQ: SHRP), a specialty retailer known as a leading source of new, innovative, high-quality products, today announced a strategic relationship to develop and market a new line of SRS-enabled Sharper Image audio products featuring SRS Labs’ award-winning audio […]

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AOL Video Service Launched

Combining the powerful capabilities of the PC with the familiar face of TV, AOL and Intel Corporation today launched the AOL Video service for Intel Viiv technology-based PCs with a goal to create the ultimate on-demand entertainment experience. The joint effort delivers AOL Video’s leading online library of premium movies, full-length TV shows, music videos, […]

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Rhapsody DNA Platform Revealed

RealNetworks, Inc. today announced the launch of Rhapsody DNA, a new technology platform that enables device makers to deliver a seamless, Rhapsody experience to consumers via a broad range of portable, mobile, and in-home devices. In conjunction, Real announced that it is teaming with SanDisk Corporation to integrate Rhapsody DNA into Sansa MP3 players this […]

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Improving Game User Testing By Testing The User

USC engineers are perfecting a games user testing tool that captures and analyzes play experience to automatically detect weakness and flaws - and it may soon gauge player emotional involvement.
User testing is a critical and key element crucial element of creating a new game - books have been written about it. But it remains […]

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Network Live Presents Exclusive Access To Rock In Rio

This year for the first time, music fans across the globe will gain unprecedented access to the world’s largest music event - Rock In Rio - through Network LIVE. With Network LIVE’s powerful global digital network, worldwide music fans will get a virtual front row ticket to see headline acts, performing at the five day […]

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World’s First Broadcast Industry Camcorder To Use Flash Memory Cards

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) has announced that flash memory CompactFlash cards, which it originally invented, will be used in the new Grass Valley Infinity Series Digital Media Camcorder. The camcorder, which debuted in the United States on Saturday, has slots for two CompactFlash cards. It is the first camcorder introduced in the broadcast industry that […]

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What are the best ways to make money in RuneScape?

I’m not a gamer, but I have a fascination with massively multiplayer online role playing games nonetheless, muchly because it’s hard for me to wrap my brain around how many zillions of hours are spent annually by people who ARE really into these games. One of the most successful of these is RuneScape, which has […]

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Ibsen Meets Robotics with Heddatron

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
I kid you not. Les Freres Corbusier takes the Henrik Ibsen play Hedda Gabler and replaces half of the actors with actual functioning robots. Of course, this is an adaptation, or as they say on Les Freres Corbusier’s official site, an irreverent massacre (click the About tab). The […]

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Learn how to solve Sudoku puzzles!

I’m not a huge fan of puzzles like sudoku, but there’s no question it’s a hit in Japan and the United States both. The basic premise is that you have a partially populated grid of numbers and that you need to fill in the blank spots so that the final grid meets certain characteristics. Sound […]

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Stewart Griffin to Get Internet Talk Show

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Please, call me Stewie. I’m pretty open about my love for Family Guy, and the baby out to take over the world gets to start his conquest with his own Internet radio show, starting later this year.
Read More about Stewie’s Talk Show Here

Tags: internet, realtechnews, michael santo, family guy, stewie […]

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Netflix to Offer High Def (HD) DVD Rentals as Soon as March 2006

We were disappointed when US-based DVD rental service Netflix nixed video downloads, but it’s nice to see the company making some moves toward advanced technology - in this case a plan to offer high definition (HD) DVDs as soon as March, with Blu-ray to follow.
Read More on Netflix and HD DVD rentals HereA

Tags: blu-ray, dvd, […]

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MPAA Accused of Movie Piracy

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which takes a dim view of illegal copying of movies, has itself been accused of illegally copying a movie. The movie in question is “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”, directed by Kirby Dick, which is actually a documentary critical of the MPAA’s […]

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Missed It In The Theater Today? See It On DVD Tonight

Free registration required to read the story. Sharon Waxman of the New York Times writes:
Hollywood will inch further toward making movies simultaneously available in theaters, on DVD and on home television screens at the Sundance Film Festival this week, as IFC Entertainment unveils a plan to release 24 films in theaters and on […]

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The Consumer Electronics Show, or the Commodity Electronics Show?

I just returned from an enjoyable few days exploring all the new technologies introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and while the huge plasma TVs, high-def video, movie-friendly cellphones, Skype-everywhere and iPod peripherals were all impressive, the biggest reaction I had after the conference was that electronics have all become […]