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New digital tools and distributed media systems are changing human reality. The noosphere emerges from the biosphere, heralding quantum shifts in communication, education, entertainment and commerce. Selective reporting on relevant products, events and resources here. |
ON-DEMAND SERVICES
TeleKnowledge and ClearCommerce team to offer end-to-end online billing, subscriber management and payment processing solution.
NAPSTER TO DITCH MP3 FORMAT
Napster are working with PlayMedia to creating their own proprietary format for use upon starting their subscription service.
PLAYSTATION 2 VS DREAMCAST
Sega’s game machine goes head to head against Sony’s second coming. And the winner is...
WATERMARKING TECHNOLOGY PATENTED
Verance have been awarded a US patent for their watermarking technology (which leaves a traceble imprint on a music file) in line with the SMDI specifications.
FIRST CLICK POWER PAD
Freeserve, UK's largest ISP launches a mouse pad that offers simplified Internet access through a variety of preset and user adjustable interfaces. Story by Dan O'Callaghan for Tuckshop News
WIRELESS GAMING: THE NEXT BIG THING
A handful of specialist gaming companies on both sides of the Atlantic are driving forward this area of the wireless initiative with astounding results.
Newsflash! Groovy Loops From Sonic Foundry...
FUTURISTIC DRUM & BASS
Drum & Bass is one of the most exciting genres happening today, but it's also one of the most difficult to compose. Let Sonic Foundry's new Futurist Drum & Bass loop library make it easy for you to break into the D & B scene. Beats, bass, instrumentation, effects--it's a complete cutting-edge construction kit.
NEW YORK DANCE
Get down Big Apple Style with New York Dance, an all-original dance music construction set produced exclusively for Sonic Foundry by Doug Beck. Doug's mixed up a wide range of styles to create a high-kickin' library that stays true to the underground.
MIX IT UP AT ACIDPLANET
Test your Billboard remixing chops by remixing "Something...for the DJs," the first internet-only release to chart! Get the full 411 at ACIDplanet.com.
Coming Up...
MP3 for all? The Radio-V team's picks for best MP players and the lowdown on the digital revolution...
We Are Transmitters
The Radio Webcaster is an FM transmitter that connects to your computer's sound card and allows the computer to transmit any audio signal to any FM radio in your home or office. The package includes a collection of software that allows the user to hear over 1650 radio stations and internet broadcasts at the click of a mouse. The Radio Webcaster is quite easy to install, and permits audio from the computer to be heard in places never imagined before. Now users can hear sports, music, audio books, etc. from the computer by the pool, in the yard, in the garage, or EVEN in the shower--all with the Radio Webcaster! It's like having your very own private radio station.
EXQUISITE SOURCE
Heads turned in June when Linus Torvalds's Linux operating system was awarded first prize by the judges of an international art festival. How far, one wonders, can the open source model go? By Harvey Blume for The Atlantic Unbound.
MORE THAN MOBILE
One of the world’s leading mobile communications technology companies, NTT DoCoMo, assures it just takes a bit of MAGIC and a DREAM to step into year 2010 where your cellular phone is a powerful interactive tool. Conversation will just be one of its many attributes; a built-in camera will add full-motion videos to your discussions. Differing languages will cease to be a communications barrier since with an automatic interpretations function you’ll be able to talk freely with anyone in the world and surfing the Internet from your terminal becomes as easy as from your desktop.
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