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February 29, 2008

Video Podcast Explores The Universe, Expands Your

via : Video Podcast Explores The Universe, Expands Your Mind Gravitas is a unique video podcast that pairs original music compositions with computer graphic simulations of the universe in motion. Here's the podcast description: GRAVITAS is a visual and musical celebration of the beauty in a dynamic universe driven by gravity. Animations from supercomputer simulations of forming galaxies, star clusters, galaxy clusters, and galaxy interactions are presented

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February 28, 2008

NBC To Use P2P To Distribute Internet

via : NBC To Use P2P To Distribute Internet TV NBC & Pando Networks, a provider of P2P content delivery services, announced today that Pando will be providing video delivery services for the NBC Direct service. While it's interesting to see a mainstream network using P2P to distribute video, it looks like NBC Direct is going to be another misbegotten proprietary Internet television offering. It requires

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Posted by Richard at 10:42 AM

Surprise! NBC'€s Online Bomb Quarterlife Bombs On TV,

via : Surprise! NBC's Online Bomb Quarterlife Bombs On TV, Too NBC's Quarterlife - a heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life - was supposed to be a bold new direction for television. The show was hyped as "the first television-quality production for the Web." Unfortunately, it was a pretty awful television-quality production for the Web. In December, we told you that Quarterlife

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Posted by Tom at 10:20 AM

This Is The Golden Age Of

via : This Is The Golden Age Of Video Kent Nichols - one of the viral video gurus behind Ask A Ninja - has an interesting new post at his site. He looks at the state of Internet video, calling it the golden age: "The Indie TV movement is on the rise. The club of show runners is now open to anyone with a

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February 27, 2008

Apple Updates MacBook and MacBook Pro

via : Apple Updates MacBook and MacBook Pro Lines Apple today updated its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, larger hard drives and 2GB of memory standard in most models. In addition, MacBook Pro includes the latest NVIDIA graphics processors, now with up to 512MB of video memory, and Apple s Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook

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Posted by Bob at 02:37 PM

iTunes Second-Biggest US Music

via : iTunes Second-Biggest US Music Retailer Apple Computer today announced that iTunes is now the number two music retailer in the United States, second only to Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group. Apple also disclosed that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers, who have bought over four billion songs (20 million songs sold on

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Posted by Ken at 11:39 AM

University First In US To Equip All Freshmen With

via : University First In US To Equip All Freshmen With iPhones Abilene Christian University announced this week that they would outfit all incoming freshmen with their own iPod Touch or iPhone, to enable the students to receive homework alerts, answer in-class quizzes, and use about a dozen other web applications the university has developed for the devices. ACU's plans for have attracted the attention of executives at

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Posted by Greg at 11:07 AM

The 10 Weirdest iPod

via : The 10 Weirdest iPod Accessories There's a fun post on the 10 Weirdest iPod Accessories over at PC Mag. Our favorite is probably the Dreamgear i.sound Plasma, above. It's a psychedelic plasma globe that has four integrated speakers, giving you a "custom-designed electro-magnetic lightshow dance to the beat of your music." Of course, if you really want to see weird iPod accessories,

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