This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things
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Engadget’s recession antidote: win an HP MediaSmart Server LX195!
… a form of advertising where branded goods or services are placed in context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, the story line of television shows or news programs….(We were good until the news programs part, notice all the anchors tweet from their Macs….705/14 falls under Data processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination – Distribution and redemption of coupon, or inventive or p romotion programs….A multimedia object comes from the world of object oriented programming, MPEG, and the graphics world….
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Advertising Image v. Multimedia Object
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the continuing popularity of Apple’s App store, question the longevity of AIR apps, investigate the waves of changes happening in the book publishing industry, review one 19 year old’s innovative and successful news website, tell you about a new trend to track called ‘Cross Reality,’ report on the latest news about Microsoft’s Web-based office initiatives, and more.
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Weekly Wrapup: Apple App Store Stats, The State of Adobe AIR, Book Publishing Revolutions, And More…
Looking for an external hard drive with a flashy color-shifting case, reasonably stout multimedia credentials, and a website with an outrageously long flash intro? Look no further than LG’s XF1, a 500GB machine with a USB interface and HDMI output to stream some high-def content straight to your set — but at a maximum of 1080i. It’ll do AVI, Xvid, and MPEGs 1, 2, and 4 along with your typical audio codecs, but conspicuously absent on the video side are H.264 and MKV, meaning it’s not exactly the comprehensive playback device you might be looking for if you haven’t gotten around to standardizing your downloads to a single encoding
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Tomorrow, July 16th at 10 AM EDT, we’ll be hosting a free webinar on HD video communication solutions for developers. This webinar is the first of a series of 3 webinars titled “SIP-IMS – from client through infrastructure to beyond telecomm.” We will then host a webinar on October 21 st titled “Comprehensive IMS solutions from client to infrastructure.” The third webinar will be on November 18 th and it will discuss usage of SIP for non-telecom applications – “SIP beyond telecomm.” Amit Lavi, our Product Manager for HD solutions, will be the main speaker on this webinar accompanied by Amir Zmora, out VP of Marketing and moderated by the one and only Carl Ford from CrossFire Media.
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Upcoming Webinar: HD for the Masses [VoIP Survivor]
Bill Tancer, Hitwise GM of Global Research recently wrote about MySpace’s departure as a top traffic generator for entertainment and music sites. Says Tancer, “MySpace was the most significant contributor of traffic to entertainment – multimedia sites providing over 35% of traffic to the category…that percentage now hovers below 10%.” Sponsor And then on a related note, Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk profiled SoundCloud as MySpace’s biggest music threat . While no one is arguing that MySpace has lost its grip as one of the leading music and entertainment destination traffic generators, I disagree with Van Buskirk’s choice in SoundCloud as the great equalizer
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One Time in Bandcamp: Challenging MySpace Music
While even bigwigs can fudge release numbers from time to time, the word “imminently” just carries a certain aura. Speaking with The Telegraph , executive producer of MSN Peter Bale confessed that Microsoft was “looking at launching a music streaming service imminently.” As in, maybe before the dawn of August. Bale added that it would be “a similar principle to Spotify,” but the outfit is still examining exactly how the business model would work
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Microsoft to launch music streaming service "imminently," could tie-in with Xbox / Zune
At first glance, you’d be hard-pressed to notice the difference between LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged HD and last year’s model , but sure enough, the middle square of that device definitely has “HD” ingrained into its genetic code, and if you can’t guess what that means, we’ll tell ya: 1080p output. Other than that aesthetic modification and the new peak resolution, there’s not a lot that’s changed — HDMI and composite output, USB 2.0 transfer, and a sizable number of supported codecs — but that’s not exactly a bad thing here
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LaCie ups the LaCinema Rugged ante with new HD version
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A recent post to the Megaconference mailing list raised an issue, which I have encountered numerous times throughout my years in the video-over-IP business: “Does anyone know why a video conferencing endpoint has packet loss, and even connection break? Are there any network parameters which can cause this?” As this is a frequently asked question, I decided to dedicate a post to this issue, so here’s another edition of “ Ask the EXPERT “, featuring all you want to know about the reasons for packet loss. In Short When you are sending media – audio and/or video – over an IP network, what you are actually transmitting are packets.
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Ask The EXPERT: Reasons for Packet Loss [Video Over Enterprise]
Not interested in a do-it-all NAS / router / photo frame like D-Link’s DIR-685 ? Then you may want to consider Synology’s just-announced DS409Slim NAS, which keeps things nice and simple and, as you can see above, compact. Despite that size, however, you’ll still get four bays for some 2.5-inch drives of your choice (up to 2TB total), along with some standard issue NAS specs like a 1.2GHz Marvell processor, 128MB of RAM, a pair of USB ports, and a single eSATA port — not to mention the usual DLNA certification and support for UPnP, among other media-friendly features.
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Synology debuts compact DS409Slim four-bay NAS
[ Vince Chavy , Product Manager for SCOPIA Desktop, is back, after the very successful launch of SCOPIA Desktop 7.0 , to discuss the SCOPIA Desktop in a bit more detail.] The new SCOPIA Desktop is out on the market, and I thought I would share with you my 7.0 reasons as to why the SCOPIA Desktop version 7.0 is such a success: 1. Scalable Video Coding (SVC) There were many posts and articles on this new and exciting technology, so I will spare you.
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SCOPIA Desktop 7.0 Points Of Success [Video Over Enterprise]
If you want to get HD in your handheld, NVIDIA’s Tegra processor is the hot way to do it at the moment, and we’ve got reasonably concrete sounding rumors from disparate sources that a handset containing one of the chips is currently under development by a “top five” smartphone builder (we’re guessing it’s not Apple), and that it’ll be out sometime before the end of the year, selling at T-Mobile and AT&T for just $199.
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NVIDIA Tegra smartphone due from a "top five" manufacturer before 2010?
Like my grandmother always says, sometimes the best gadgets are the ones you build yourself — with kits imported from Japan, purchased at places like Fred Flare. Princeton’s Paper Speaker kit comes with a pair of 1W stereo speakers, a USB connection, paste, and a paper template for building a retro desktop sound system. Three designs are available — take your pick from a cabinet record player, a component stereo system, or an old school boom box.
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Paper desktop speakers rock you like a handcrafted hurricane
Today, at the Semantic Technology Conference , Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus of the New York Times together announced that the Times will soon be publishing its copious index as Linked Data . The Times ‘ data will join content from Project Gutenberg , a vast online library of text from public domain books, data from the U.S. census, and information from many other formative and vital entities in the semantic web space.
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Tags as Far as the Eye Can See: New York Times to Publish Index as Linked Data
This week, we announce the joint project of RADVISION and Samsung , who together, created a “desktop video conferencing solution that will revolutionize the high definition desktop video market.” I will not ponder on what exactly this solution does – as Amir Zmora already did that for me, talking about the Samsung VC240 . I will also refrain from telling you all about how proud I am to be part of the team that worked on this cutting-edge project.
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Samsung VC240: A Market Disruptor or More of the Same? [VoIP Survivor]
[ Amit Lavi is the product manager of BEE HD , our brand new product which lets you develop high definition videophones a lot faster . He took the time to write this guest post in order to present the new BEE HD to you] Video is becoming an integral part of our lives – you can see it everywhere. There are users who film, upload and publish their videos online to people wanting to communicate visually with others – either through software applications or in large enterprise room systems
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Introducing BEEHD: The RADVISION Interactive Video Client [VoIP Survivor]
Tom blends various gadgets together. What will he create?
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Will It Blend? – Take Two: The full Olympus Multimedia Blend
[ Amir Zmora is now on his way to InfoComm and is as excited as I am about the announcement of the new HD Video Conferencing Desktop Solution, which was a RADVISION and Samsung joint project. He wanted to share his enthusiasm with you and he is waiting to hear your feedback about this new and innovative project.] As I’m getting ready for the long flight from Israel to Orlando, I’m all excited about the announcement of the joint project between RADVISION and Samsung for a new, affordable desktop Video Conferencing solution.
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HD Thoughts on the way to InfoComm [VoIP Survivor]
Dogfight! Noah from PhoneDog! Palm Pre vs Apple iPhone 3G. Round Three: Multimedia – Music and Video Players, YouTube Apps, and Amazon MP3 vs iTunes stores.
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Pre v iPhone: Multimedia and Amazon & iTunes Stores