Best Soft Launches Revolutionary New Actionstick Game Controller at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2005

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BroadVoice to Exhibit at the
International Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6 –
9, 2005

BroadVoice to Exhibit at the
International Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 6 –
9, 2005 12/30/2004 05:10 AM
BroadVoice, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP telephony to home and small business users, will be exhibiting at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6 – 9, 2005 in Innovations Plus booth 70747G. BroadVoice President David Epstein will speak at the Consumer VoIP Summit, Wednesday, January 5, 2005 10:45 – 12:00 PM in the North Hall, room N253 [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

Consumer Electronics Show 2005

Consumer Electronics Show 2005 01/06/2005 07:20 AM
vnunet.com Jan 6 2005 11:49AM GMT

Sharut Furniture Showcases Furniture In
Motion™ Line At Consumer Electronics
Show In Las Vegas

Sharut Furniture Showcases Furniture In
Motion™ Line At Consumer Electronics
Show In Las Vegas 12/22/2004 01:42 AM
Consumer Electronic Show- South Hall 2, booth number 26162) – Sharut Furniture, a manufacturer of innovative, contemporary home furniture solutions will be exhibiting their Furniture in Motion™ line at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Sharut’s Furniture in Motion™ is based on the company’s belief that furniture is becoming more multifunctional and should combine contemporary styles with functionality and electronics. [PRWEB Dec 21, 2004]

Consumer Electronics on Display in Vegas

Consumer Electronics on Display in Vegas 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
AP via Newsday Jan 3 2005 2:16PM GMT

Consumer Electronics on Display in Vegas
(AP)

Consumer Electronics on Display in Vegas
(AP) 01/03/2005 10:14 AM
AP - With Christmas over and done with, it's time to get a look at what gadgets will be hot for next Christmas.

Giant Consumer Electronics Blowout in
Vegas

Giant Consumer Electronics Blowout in
Vegas 01/04/2005 11:49 PM

CES: Giant consumer electronics blowout
in Vegas

CES: Giant consumer electronics blowout
in Vegas 01/06/2005 02:30 AM
Preview of the show featuring products ranging from humungous TVs to home entertainment servers, smart cars, portable music and video players, and wireless devices.

Limelight Networks and The Chris Pirillo
Show Team to Deliver Live Webcasts at
International Consumer Electronics Show

Limelight Networks and The Chris Pirillo
Show Team to Deliver Live Webcasts at
International Consumer Electronics Show 01/07/2005 04:14 AM
“The Chris Pirillo Show” to Debut Live via Leading Digital Delivery Network [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

A Charged-Up Consumer Electronics Show

A Charged-Up Consumer Electronics Show 01/12/2004 03:02 AM
Business Week Jan 12 2004 2:10AM ET

Consumer Electronics Show 2004

Consumer Electronics Show 2004 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
I'm at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, which has become the major event of its kind. Stay tuned...

Intel CEO to Speak at Consumer
Electronics Show

Intel CEO to Speak at Consumer
Electronics Show 01/03/2005 07:57 PM
WebProNews Jan 3 2005 10:58PM GMT

The Consumer Electronics Show opens
Minus Webl0ggers

The Consumer Electronics Show opens
Minus Webl0ggers 01/05/2005 03:59 PM

I would have went to CES instead they have banned all webloggers, thus I am flipping them the middle finger and will be going somewhere else besides Las Vegas for vacation. See not only will CES miss me, so will Las Vegas miss my wallet and my wife at the Blackjack table. Sure I could have lied on the application but who wants to go where they are not welcome. [Yahoo]< /p>

10 / 1 - Matt M - Sierra Voq at Consumer
Electronics Show 2004

10 / 1 - Matt M - Sierra Voq at Consumer
Electronics Show 2004 01/09/2004 10:14 PM
There's certainly been plenty of sightings of it over the past few month - all you need do is search Google for Voq - but this blog at Geek.com gives me the ...

Music gadgets, sleek TVs highlight
Consumer Electronics Show (AFP)

Music gadgets, sleek TVs highlight
Consumer Electronics Show (AFP) 01/06/2005 03:04 PM
AFP - Sleeker, more powerful electronic gadgets ranging from cell phones, televisions and music players are the stars of the Consumer Electronics Show, which opened in Las Vegas this week.

Microsoft Readies Its
Consumer-Electronics Game Plan

Microsoft Readies Its
Consumer-Electronics Game Plan 12/17/2003 02:43 AM
Extreme Tech Dec 17 2003 1:51AM ET

Sears launches consumer electronics line

Sears launches consumer electronics line 08/18/2004 04:41 PM
Department store plans to sell projection TVs via Web and offer them in stores in the fall, with other devices to follow.

Analog Devices launches new product for
Microsoft, consumer electronics

Analog Devices launches new product for
Microsoft, consumer electronics 01/26/2004 04:10 PM
Analog Devices Inc., whose high-speed products research center is in Greensboro, released its new Blackfin electronic processor that apparently makes new digital cameras, car computer systems and even Microsoft software run faster.

True Surround Sound Headphones by LTB
with 2.4GHz Wireless Digital Range
Introduced at the CES 2005 Show in Las
Vegas.

True Surround Sound Headphones by LTB
with 2.4GHz Wireless Digital Range
Introduced at the CES 2005 Show in Las
Vegas. 01/07/2005 04:14 AM
LTB Audio Systems, Inc. The new leader in 5.1 Headphone technology has just introduced two new Wireless 2.4GHz 5.1 true surround sound headphones at The annual 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Nevada. The new technology in these headphones has earned LTB a nomination for Best of Show at CES 2005. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]

Syntax Groups' Olevia Brand of LCD TVs
Brings Value & Affordability to Micro
Center Consumer Electronics
Consumers--National Debut at Micro
Center Gains Rapid Consumer Acceptance

Syntax Groups' Olevia Brand of LCD TVs
Brings Value & Affordability to Micro
Center Consumer Electronics
Consumers--National Debut at Micro
Center Gains Rapid Consumer Acceptance 08/09/2004 02:05 AM
Syntax Groups continues its market momentum for delivering high value LCD TVs at consumer-friendly, affordable prices. It's Olevia brand LDC TVs are now available at Micro Center’s network of technology stores throughout the United States. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]

PC makers eye consumer electronics all
over again

PC makers eye consumer electronics all
over again 09/22/2004 01:57 PM
Dell, Gateway and HP are making another run at consumer electronics for the 2004 holiday season.

Last Day of Work Launches Village Sim
Game for Palm Powered Devices at
PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005

Last Day of Work Launches Village Sim
Game for Palm Powered Devices at
PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
Last Day of Work launches at the PalmSource Mobile Summit & DevCon 2005, Village Sim: a real-time simulator game, for Palm Powered™ mobile devices and smartphones. Village Sim continues LDW’s long tradition of life-simulators and true real-time games that keep on playing even if the device is turned off. [PRWEB May 24, 2005]

RYL: Path of the Emperor MMORPG Online
Video Game Launches in over 8,100
Retailers on June 21, 2005 throughout
North America

RYL: Path of the Emperor MMORPG Online
Video Game Launches in over 8,100
Retailers on June 21, 2005 throughout
North America 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Unique Free Online Gameplay with Survey Participation Draws in Gamers Around the World to Play Without having to Pay the Monthly Fees and Participate in $1,000,000 Grand Prize Tournament [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

Cymfony Launches Digital Consumer
Insight to Analyze Blogs, Message
Boards, Discussion Forums and Other
Consumer-Generated Media for Market
Intelligence

Cymfony Launches Digital Consumer
Insight to Analyze Blogs, Message
Boards, Discussion Forums and Other
Consumer-Generated Media for Market
Intelligence 02/01/2005 09:20 PM
Breakthrough Solution Helps Fortune 1000 Companies Understand, Measure Digital Influencers and Gather Market Intelligence from Blogs, Discussion Forums, etc. [PRWEB Jan 25, 2005]

Gateway backing away from consumer
electronics

Gateway backing away from consumer
electronics 07/16/2004 05:16 PM
Gateway is rethinking its consumer electronics business in the wake of its eMachines merger. While they will like continue selling TVs, it looks as though they'll be dropping other Gateway-branded consumer electronics.

Clear Signals in Consumer Electronics

Clear Signals in Consumer Electronics 08/20/2004 12:32 PM
Business Week Aug 20 2004 4:08PM GMT

Intel Inside... Consumer Electronics
(Again)

Intel Inside... Consumer Electronics
(Again) 04/26/2004 01:09 PM
Intel has a history of jumping into consumer electronics offerings, to try to jump start the convergence of consumer electronics and the computing world so that they could sell more chips both in PCs and in the consumer electronics equipment itself. So far, those efforts haven't gone too well, but now Intel believes that the timing is right and true convergence is happening between computing and consumer electronics in a way that will let Intel play a major role. The consumer electronics players, who have often viewed the computing companies with a bit of fear, realizing the potential threat, seem to be accepting what's happening and are working with Intel to try to create a world where they still matter. The main holdouts are still the content companies, though even that is beginning to change. Of course, it still seems like the reliance on the big content companies is over-rated. The internet became successful not because big companies signed on, but because it allowed people to "make their own content" by communicating with each other. In a world of consumer electronics, we're already seeing that if the products are made well, the content companies are getting dragged along and coming up with business models later (see: TiVo, iPod).

Java to dominate consumer electronics?

Java to dominate consumer electronics? 04/22/2004 07:47 AM
Yes, if it's lean and mean

Manufacturers gamble on consumer
electronics

Manufacturers gamble on consumer
electronics 01/05/2004 07:28 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 5 2004 6:44AM ET

Consumer Electronics Make Music

Consumer Electronics Make Music 04/09/2004 10:22 PM

HP Enters Consumer-Electronics Market

HP Enters Consumer-Electronics Market 08/27/2004 01:39 PM
Hewlett-Packard blasted into the consumer-electronic market on Friday with its most significant product launch of the year, unveiling new televisions, digital camera, photo printers, notebooks ad desktop PCs.

HP takes aim at leisure consumer
electronics

HP takes aim at leisure consumer
electronics 08/27/2004 05:47 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 27 2004 9:52PM GMT

New: Solo Performer Show Controller

New: Solo Performer Show Controller 06/15/2004 10:11 AM
Solo Performer Show Controller is a six-button foot pedal device that connects to laptop computers via USB, plus software that enables a solo performer to control backing music and lights while performing live.

Samsung Electronics Unveils Cutting-Edge
New Products At CeBIT 2005 (23/3/2005)

Samsung Electronics Unveils Cutting-Edge
New Products At CeBIT 2005 (23/3/2005) 03/23/2005 01:11 PM
Hidden Wires Mar 23 2005 2:40PM GMT

Malinche Launches Revolutionary
Bookseller Program

Malinche Launches Revolutionary
Bookseller Program 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Booksellers to Realize Incredible Profits Without Risk [PRWEB May 24, 2004]

HP makes bigger push into consumer
electronics

HP makes bigger push into consumer
electronics 08/27/2004 01:31 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 27 2004 8:27AM GMT

Review: A Tiny PC From a Consumer
Electronics Giant

Review: A Tiny PC From a Consumer
Electronics Giant 07/12/2004 12:15 PM
ABCNEWS.com Jul 12 2004 3:28PM GMT

Is bigger better, or thin in? Consumer
electronics go both ways

Is bigger better, or thin in? Consumer
electronics go both ways 01/10/2004 10:50 AM
Canadian Press Jan 10 2004 9:09AM ET

Gateway Chases Consumer Electronics
Sales

Gateway Chases Consumer Electronics
Sales 11/12/2003 01:12 PM
AP via Daily Press Nov 12 2003 10:52AM ET

Samsung to open consumer electronics
store in N.Y.

Samsung to open consumer electronics
store in N.Y. 05/12/2004 06:37 PM
As part of its ambition to overtake Sony, the Korean company will open its own store in New York around September. Samsung hopes to sell products but mostly wants to use the outlet to highlight its design efforts and brand.
Grok Description matches for Best Soft Launches Revolutionary New Actionstick Game Controller at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2005
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Prague Revisited - The evidence of an
Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone
away. By Edward Jay Epstein

Prague Revisited - The evidence of an
Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone
away. By Edward Jay Epstein 11/19/2003 06:59 PM
Prague Revisited - The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away. By Edward Jay Epstein

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" "Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin"

" "Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin" 08/23/2004 02:38 PM

"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin

"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin 08/22/2004 08:57 PM
"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin .. How John Kerry busted the terrorists' favorite bank .. fought in the War on Terror .. tells us all about it .. busting BCCI,

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Japanese fan-made game: Ie, Tatemasu!

Japanese fan-made game: Ie, Tatemasu! 01/05/2005 07:09 PM
Xeni Jardin: On the terrific, offbeat videogame website "Insert Credit," we find this cultural exegesis of a Japanese gay porn video game. Screenshots included, and they're relatively worksafe because the... um... protuberances... are blocked with pics of cute anime girls. Cute anime girls with third eyes, that is. Snip:

The game I am about to pick as my "Game of the Year 2004" is called Ie, Tatemasu! ("let’s build your house!", as they say on the guide book); it’s a fan-made erotic game. And the most basic type, too: a simulation game. For those of you not familiar with the genre, you basically see the character you’re supposed to be talking to, read the dialogue, and sometimes make a choice (between, for example: "go to the pachinko" or "pay a visit to this character"). Sometimes, when, hum, something visual happens that words would be unfit to describe properly, you are shown a still illustration of the scene while the text still runs down the CG. Basically, these games are very, very slow slideshows of pornographic drawings with a lot of text, and very few interactive elements.

Link (Thanks, Chris Baker!).

Using BroadVoice with Asterisk How-To

Using BroadVoice with Asterisk How-To 03/22/2005 04:42 PM
Slashdot Mar 20 2005 1:16PM GMT

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen 03/13/2003 10:23 AM
When the furor over Oprah selecting The Corrections and the author's disdain for being lumped with other books of...

Jonathan James

Jonathan James 09/10/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

"Jonathan Schwartz"

"Jonathan Schwartz" 08/02/2004 03:12 PM

Jonathan Schwartz

Jonathan Schwartz 06/25/2004 11:57 AM

I just asked Jonathan Schwartz a question about Eclipse and SWT and what Sun thought of that.

He said that Java 1.5 was teh solution. He admitted that Sun had dropped the ball on the client side - but that there were 350M cell phone out there running Java.

I say "Right On!" get Java to work!

Jonathan Hardwick's SMS and MOM Webl0g

Jonathan Hardwick's SMS and MOM Webl0g 07/13/2004 10:13 AM

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 09/24/2004 04:12 PM

Jonathan Ive Is 'Best In The Business'

Jonathan Ive Is 'Best In The Business' 09/24/2004 09:25 AM
Apple's head of industrial design Jonathan Ive has once again been voted 'the best in the business' in the annual Peer Poll devised by Creative Review magazine. By Nick Spence, Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)

Jonathan Deneau Hyndman

Jonathan Deneau Hyndman 12/19/2004 02:52 PM
I think the only appropriate way to follow up my last post would be with this wonderful news... Jonathan Deneau Hyndman was born today at 5:58pm. And so far he's exceeded expectations. Nicky and Jonathan are both doing well....

Liberal Jonathan Chait

Liberal Jonathan Chait 02/07/2005 01:27 AM
Read the whole thing .. suicidal vainglory .. spills the beans

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Master Of Design: Jonathan Ive

Master Of Design: Jonathan Ive 06/04/2004 11:34 PM
"It's all about removing the unncessary." By Fast Company (via MyAppleMenu)

Jonathan Schwartz's Webl0g

Jonathan Schwartz's Webl0g 08/02/2004 01:58 PM
Jonathan Schwartz .. "too strong" .. post

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Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g

Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g 06/30/2004 05:48 PM
Jonathan Schwartz, the President and COO of Sun Microsystems, now has a weblog. 

I've known Jonathan for several years, and he's one of the smartest, most with-it executives in high-tech. All you need to know about him is that he was thrilled when I introduced him at Supernova last week as a "maverick." At the same time, he's totally focused on returning Sun to its former glory, and reinvigorating the IT sector along the way. We had a great conversation at the conference -- check out Heath Row's transcript.

I fully expect that the blog will reflect the man himself, not some PR scribe.

Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz"

Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz" 06/24/2005 09:23 PM

Since yesterday morning I've been hanging around at Supernova and I've been taking some fairly intensive notes, but I've not yet had the opportunity to write any of it up. Over the next hour or so, I hope to put up some of my reactions from the last day and a half of the conference. I'm a little unclear as yet whether I'll be posting the full notes that I've been making for each part of the conference. I guess we'll see. They're not always of the most enormous value.

For people who don't know, the core idea behind Supernova and the concept of the conference i decentralisation and the effects of network. I guess the metaphor is of the aftermath of the exploded centre, where top-down governance and control gives up its power (by choice or by force) to the new many-to-many network where power and agency operates at the edges. The conference takes that fundamental concept and looks at its application across a whole range of different subject areas - from social software and personal publishing, search, telecoms, gaming, business, media as well as around meta-areas like how individuals deal with this radically different vision of the world. I think by necessity this creates a kind of weirdly diverse conference that attracts radically different types of people whose relationship to each other isn't always easy. So you've got the business people, the alpha geeks, the legislators, the military, the policy people and the academics talking about things from very different angles. Which means that any individual part of the audience is likely to be frustrated at some points, bored at other points and insanely fascinated for the rest of the time.

I'm going to start with a brief bit of coverage of a discussion between Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and Kevin Werbach of Supernova. The two major areas of this discussion were really about about whether or not Web 2.0 was a reality (the answers to which were relatively anodyne) and a much more interesting discussion about future business communication with weblogs.

I kind of take my life in my hands a bit every time I go off on a discussion about weblogs after six years of writing this site, but sometimes it really does seem that there genuinely still more that can still be said around the edges. Here are a few really telling quotes (probably mistranscribed) from Schwartz that I noted down during his piece:

I've learned a lot of things. If you think about what a leader does, you're fundamentally a communicator. You have to be able to communicate to the marketplace to the people who report to you - there is no efficient way of doing that than using the network - using the internet. If you want to be a leader, I can't see you surviving without a blog. It's like being a leader without having e-mail or a mobile phone. You still find them very occasionally, but it's moving away. It's very rare.

Authenticity is absolutely paramount. Getting poeple to write your blogs is ridiculous. It's like hiring people to read your e-mail. You might be able to get away with it, but it's kind of like pushing a rock up a hill...

When I first heard Schwartz talking in these directions, I genuinely didn't know what I thought about it. In my experience weblogs inside organisations don't tend to be terribly interesting or useful and only a limited number of people participate with them. I was going ready to treat his comments with a similar scepticism (particularly given some of his earlier comments about authentication and the future of the web which were pretty banal), but he blew my suspions out of the water with some of his later comments. When challenged about whether he was only talking about communicating with the company internally or doing it in full view of the public, he said something really interesting.

For a start, he said that in the near future he wanted to start doing all his communications via his weblog. Then he moved on to addressing this internal / external dichotomy. He mentioned a particular case where particularly good employees had their names and photos put up on an intranet celebrating their achievements. Instead of this he suggested that it should be done completely in public. He said that some people had suggested that this might mean that the staff concerned would just be poached by other companies but he responded that good people would always be open for poaching. And here's the interesting bit - he said he had no interest in an internal weblog, that he wants it to be completely transparent and that while he was aware that this approach and celebrating his employees achievements in public might to his competitors knowing what he was doing, it also meant that their employees could see it too - and they can then use that to decide if he's a more attractive leader with better policies and a vetter vision of the future.

This is a view of the world that I really like - it doesn't limit your ability to have particular specific projects operating under the radar, but it's an acceptance that large-scale strategy and communications about your company as a whole is never secret. And rather than treating that as a weakness or as a problem, it turns and faces it directly. It let's people see the way you run your company and encourages people to question and interrogate it - creating a virtuous circle of improvement and self-awareness inside organisations that raises the whole level of the debate. For everything else you might say about Sun, this is a noble idealistic and inspiring aspiration. Very cool.

[You can read my very rough notes on this interview as it happened her e.]

Jonathan King set to leave prison

Jonathan King set to leave prison 03/28/2005 06:27 PM
Disgraced pop mogul Jonathan King is due to be released from prison on Tuesday.

Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years"

Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years" 04/30/2004 07:37 AM
GEEKS OUT

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Jonathan King told to 'shut up'

Jonathan King told to 'shut up' 03/29/2005 11:17 AM
Sex offender Jonathan King is told to "shut up" after he protests his innocence as he is released from jail.

16-year-old hacker Jonathan James was

16-year-old hacker Jonathan James was 09/10/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

Jonathan Hardwick's Tablet PC Webl0g

Jonathan Hardwick's Tablet PC Webl0g 07/15/2004 12:02 PM

Jonathan King fails to win costs

Jonathan King fails to win costs 04/04/2005 06:25 AM
Sex offender Jonathan King fails in a bid to recover costs over a case in which he was acquitted.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke 03/30/2005 09:05 PM

January was a rough month for me and I needed a break from all the "heavy" nonfiction I usually read, so I picked up Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a well-received fantasy novel. I'm normally not much of a fantasy reader, but I was in the mood for something fanciful and besides, JS&MN isn't really fantasy. It contains fantastic things like magicians, Raven Kings, and faeries but belongs more to the 19th century British novel genre...more Jane Austen than JRR Tolkien. (Clarke lists Austen as her favorite author on the book's site.)

And it's just plain good, whatever the genre. The simple bold cover drew me in (it looks like the font used is a close cousin to Caslon Antique), but the plot kept me in "I can't put it down" mode until I had finished. A surprise was how clever and funny Clarke's writing was...I found myself laughing out loud several times at the book's cutting deadpan wit. The book weighs in at ~780 pages, but my only disappointment upon finishing was that the story was over...I felt like I'd just gotten to know the characters and wanted to follow them on all sorts of adventures. Luckily, Clarke is working on a sequel of sorts, according to the book's web site:

The next book will be set in the same world and will probably start a few years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell finishes. I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it. I doubt that the new book will be a sequel in the strictest sense. There are new characters to be introduced, though probably some old friends will appear too. I'd like to move down the social scale a bit. Strange and Norrell were both rich, with pots of money and big estates. Some of the characters in the second book have to struggle a bit harder to keep body and soul together. I expect there'll be more about John Uskglass, the Raven King, and about how magic develops in England.

The first chapter is online if you'd like to read it and Metacritic has several reviews.

P.S. For fun, here are Amazon's Statistically Improbable Phrases for this book: new manservant, madhouse attendants, fairy roads, practical magician.

(View @ Amazon) (with comments)

Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
UltraSPARC Chip

Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
UltraSPARC Chip 09/14/2004 07:22 AM

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn 11/19/2003 02:15 PM
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn Wave and the market challenges and opportunities it may present for Sun.

Collector's Collections Gallery:
Jonathan Norris

Collector's Collections Gallery:
Jonathan Norris 08/03/2004 03:41 AM
Today's Collector's Collections update features and update to the the collection of Jonathan Norris from Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Jonathan Ive to speak at London's Design
Museum

Jonathan Ive to speak at London's Design
Museum 09/23/2004 04:36 AM
Jonathan Ive, Apple's vice president of design and winner of the most influential person in British culture award this year, will be giving a speech at London's Design museum on October 28th, reports Macworld UK...

Best Soft Launches Revolutionary New Actionstick Game Controller at Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2005

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