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Disruption-free videos

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags -- digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most important data packets to ...





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Mobile radio – look as you listen?

Mobile radio – look as you listen?

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eyes can listen too: Researchers have developed a new audio service for cell phone radios in which the sound is accompanied with matching images – such as CD covers or concert photos. Sound and image take ...


Discovery of novel genes could unlock mystery of what makes us uniquely human

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Humans and chimpanzees are genetically very similar, yet it is not difficult to identify the many ways in which we are clearly distinct from chimps. In a study published online in Genome Research, scientists have made a ...


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Sony adopting industry standard for e-books

Technology / Software

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sony, in a challenge to Amazon's Kindle, unveiled plans on Thursday to do away with the proprietary software on its electronic Sony Reader and convert its e-book store to an industry standard format.


Sony's Major Strategic Shift: Support MP3 Format

Sony's Major Strategic Shift: MP3 Format Support

Electronics /

created Sep 23, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sony Corp., an electronics giant, said on Thursday that in future some of its new MP3 player models will feature direct support for MP3 format in addition to its own proprietary ATRAC (Adaptive Transform Acous ...


AT&T files program complaint against Cablevision

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. has filed a complaint with federal regulators charging that Cablevision Systems Corp. is violating federal law by denying AT&T's video customers in Connecticut access to Cablevision's New York area sports ...


Why pay when you can copy for free?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New empirical research identifies successful strategies for the exploitation of television formats. Television formats such as X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent are extremely popular with audiences. Over the last decade, the ...


Toshiba to join rival Blu-ray camp, plans products

Technology / Business

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Having lost the video format war, Toshiba Corp. said Monday it will make Blu-ray disc products and plans to join the once-rival camp, the Blu-ray Disc Association.


Publishers, booksellers and authors are holding a major annual convention in New York amid uncertainty in the  industry

Book industry meets over uncertain future

Technology / Other

created May 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Publishers, booksellers and authors are holding a major annual convention in New York this week as the industry reels from a global recession and readers migrate to digital formats.


Yale's scan of Turkish infant's genome yields a surprise diagnosis

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a dramatic illustration of the power of emerging genetic technologies, Yale University researchers have reported making a clinical diagnosis for the first time using comprehensive DNA sequencing of all ...


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Toshiba launches Blu-ray after DVD setback: report

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Japan's Toshiba Corp. will enter the Blu-ray DVD market, more than a year after it gave up on its own next-generation format that failed to gain industry support, a report said.



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