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Apples part of the shifting Television screen.

There has been a lot of speculation this month about Apple TV, changes that make it more than a “Hobby” for Apple, including :

re-branding it as iTV -even though that is already a British TV network called ITV. Could the simply license its name to Apple, like what Cicso did with the iPhone?
running the [...]

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Jazzing It Up At the Art Museum in Los Angeles, California

On-line travel site Trazzler is making use of my image (on flickr) in it article about free Friday evening Jazz at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Jazzing It Up At the Art Museum in Los Angeles, California.

(Also, I’m now posting places my images are being used, under the LinkRoll Section and Images.)

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Mesh10 : five years of Meshing in Toronto

This was the week for MESH and MESH U,which is a Toronto based conference which looks at “The Web” and how it is affecting the media, marketing, business and society as a whole. Mesh is in its 5th year and Mesh U (which is a more focused one for the on design, development and [...]

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Another episode of “It’s Charlie’s Stross’s fiction, we are just living in it” : Will Wall Street require Python?

Saw “Will Wall Street require Python? | ITworld”, on the Hot Links website and thought “interesting”, and then I read the description !
“Charles Stross was right. “with Release 33-9117, the SEC is considering substitution of Python or another programming language for legal English as a basis for some of its regulations.”
I remembered the use [...]

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Five films from the TIFF

We saw 5 great films in the Contemporary World Cinema program in this years (2009) Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
We started off with a Irish film, Perrier’s Bounty, set in the underside of North Dublin. Great and meaty characters. I hope the DVD has English subtitles and translation so I can understand [...]

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Kandyse McClure (BSG’s Anastasia “Dee” Dualla) glamour shots

Rising star and Actress Kandyse McClure (born Candice McClure) and African-Canadian beauty, know to fans of Sci-Fi/Scy-Fy channels Battlestar Galactica as Anastasia “Dee” Dualla, recently did a shoot in Mexico with photographer Darryl Humphrey, a horse, and not much else! (She may have been filming for TV series “Persons Unknown“)

I’ve been told that the glamour shots [...]

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DRM free Songbird Media Player is out of the nest with R1.0!

in the works since 2005 has SongBird has reached a major milestone with is 1.0 release!!
What is it? A DRM (Digital Restrictions Management, or they “restrict your rights to digits”. ) free, non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible (plug-in services!!), open-source, customizable music player. That’s what!
It’s built atop XULRunner platform (also used by Mozilla [...]

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TinEye Mobile : iPhone visual search for stuff

as demonstrated during the recent The Amazon Web Services (AWS) StartUp event in Toronto by Idee’s CTO Paul Bloore,  TinEye Mobile is soon to be showing up in the iPhone App store to melt your brains… or just take an image of product (a CD, DVD, book or game etc.) and then send you on [...]

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3 points towards a new business model for Music and Books.

Free ebooks appear to boost sales | Blog | Futurismic – There has been a lot of criticism of the practice by some writers and lots of praise from other corners. At the moment, it looks like the practice works.
- Books ebooks business
Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers – Frankly, book reading just [...]

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Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform

Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act it wants to get passed so as justify the digital locks (that don’t work) to [...]

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