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Gateway's new rear-projection TV

Gateway's new rear-projection TV 10/30/2003 10:20 AM
Gateway is getting even deeper into the television business. They're adding a 56-inch rear-projection widescreen TV to their line of LCD and plasma displays that is about one-third the depth of a regular rear-projection television. Read...

JVC Big Screen EXE Rear Projection TVs

JVC Big Screen EXE Rear Projection TVs 04/07/2005 12:44 PM

JVC will introduce a few new rear projection TVs for the Japanese market, under the "Big Screen EXE" brand. The 61" "HD-61MD60" will cost 787,500 yen, and the 51" 682,500 yen. They do appear to have some nice specs, such as a 700cd/m² brightness on the 52 inch. But they're being marketed based on a low power consumption: 198W, not that we Americans really care. Speaking of Americans, JVC plans to introduce these two sets here in July, as well as add a 70" model.

Press Release [JVC]

Consumers Want Rear-Projection TV's, and
Now

Consumers Want Rear-Projection TV's, and
Now 12/24/2003 12:38 AM
New York Times Dec 23 2003 11:52PM ET

Epson Demos 1080p 3LCD Rear-Projection
TV

Epson Demos 1080p 3LCD Rear-Projection
TV 01/06/2005 02:27 PM
At CES, Epson showed a prototype 1080p RPTV based on 1080p polysilicon LCDs. It's early to tell, but the wow factor could be huge.

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection
TVs in 2005

Canon to Start Making Rear Projection
TVs in 2005 01/04/2005 01:23 PM
Japanese camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc. said on Tuesday it would start producing rear projection televisions later this year, aiming to secure a chunk of the rapidly growing market for big screen TVs. Canon also said it plans to invest in a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel joint venture by Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

It added, however, that details of the planned investment, including the size of the stake, have yet to be decided and it had no plan to make LCD televisions. "We are aiming to offer rear projection TVs on a commercial basis by the end of the year. Since they are to be used at schools and other public facilities, we don't expect them to sell as well as consumer goods," a Canon spokesman said. The rear projection TVs would be the second flat-panel TVs for Canon, which also plans to launch surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) TVs this year.

News source: Reuters

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Intel Corp. plans to develop chip for
rear-projection digital TVs

Intel Corp. plans to develop chip for
rear-projection digital TVs 12/17/2003 11:51 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 17 2003 11:13PM ET

Syntax Groups Unveils 50 inch LCOS
Technology Rear Projection TV at Market
Leading sub $3000 Price

Syntax Groups Unveils 50 inch LCOS
Technology Rear Projection TV at Market
Leading sub $3000 Price 08/27/2004 01:40 PM
Syntax Groups debuts sub-$3,000 LCOS TV, bringing brighter, lighter, thinner affordability to digital home entertainment. The new Olevia™ LCOS TV showcased at this week’s HDTV Forum 2004 industry conference. [PRWEB Aug 25, 2004]

Motorola's ultrathin V3 cameraphone

Motorola's ultrathin V3 cameraphone 07/26/2004 08:57 PM
Engadget Jul 27 2004 1:07AM GMT

Review of Sony's ultrathin X505 laptop

Review of Sony's ultrathin X505 laptop 01/07/2004 07:13 PM
DesignTechnica review of the world's skinniest laptop, the new Vaio PCG-X505, which weighs a mere 785 grams and is just 9.7mm thick:The Sony X505...

Thomson's Book Fair

Thomson's Book Fair 06/14/2004 11:31 AM
Thomson tries again to sell off its print media unit.

Thomson's Flip Side

Thomson's Flip Side 05/04/2004 04:49 PM
Thomson's earnings, free cash flow, and valuation tell the full story.

Thomson's Patently Good Buy

Thomson's Patently Good Buy 06/29/2004 01:50 PM
Thomson will purchase a provider of intellectual property information.

Laura Thomson's Blog: Simple Things are
Beautiful (REST and PHP)

Laura Thomson's Blog: Simple Things are
Beautiful (REST and PHP) 06/17/2005 03:32 PM
On Laura Thomson's blog, there's this post that talks a bit about XML and web services.

In a nutshell: most of the web services stack is bloatware that doesn't get used for most applications. 90% of the time you can get away with knowing no SOAP, WSDL, or any of that stuff. You can just use REST - Representational State Transfer. This is basically an HTTP GET request with parameters, and in return you get an XML document, in other words XML over HTTP. It works very nicely and is simple.

She gives a basic example of how, using nothing more than SimpleXML in PHP5, you can create a client/server with REST to communicated back and forth.

I'm not saying there isn't a need for SOAP and WS-*, just that often simple tools will do the job. It's just another version of the 80% rule. This seems to be a theme in my personal consumption of technology.

Man Shoots Himself in Rear End (AP)

Man Shoots Himself in Rear End (AP) 08/06/2004 09:16 AM
AP - Drew Patterson wanted to protect himself after hearing reports of an fugitive in this northeastern Oklahoma community.

Bringing Up the Rear

Bringing Up the Rear 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
A review of Doodieman: The Hero's Load, the 10-minute animated film by Tom Winkler: "As elegant as a movie about a superhero with bowel problems can be." (04-09)

Deliveries in the Rear

Deliveries in the Rear 04/01/2005 09:46 AM
Recipients should not eat their FecalGram, a fresh-squeezed, human-made steaming manatee mailed anonymous ly from Florissant, Missouri. "They are not intended for human consumption, or consumption by any animal."

The browser war in the rear-view mirror

The browser war in the rear-view mirror 12/22/2004 01:23 AM
Randal l Stross's piece on Firefox in the Sunday Times business section, with its comical quotes from a Microsoft spokesman who suggests that unhappy users buy themselves new computers, brought a little wisp of browser-war nostalgia to mind.

It's undeniable that, today, if you want to protect your computing life and you run Windows, you're insane to continue running basic Microsoft applications like Internet Explorer and Outlook. (Firefox and Thunderbird are great alternatives in the open source world. I'm still wedded to Opera and Eudora out of years-long habits. Opera does a great job of saving multiple open windows with multiple open tabs from session to session, even when you suffer a system freeze.) These programs function together in a variety of ways that Microsoft presented as good ideas at the time they were written. Hey, integration means everything works seamlessly, and everyone knows how highly the business world prizes the word "seamless."

Today it is precisely the same integration -- the way, for instance, that ActiveX controls and other code pass freely across the borders of these applications, allowing them to work together in potentially useful but hugely insecure ways -- that make IE and Outlook such free-fire zones for viruses and other mischief. (It's certainly true that the Microsoft universe is targeted by virus authors because it's where the most users are; but it's also true that Microsoft's products are sitting ducks in a way that its competitors in the Apple and open source worlds simply are not.) If you're willing to turn on Microsoft's auto-update to keep up with the operating system patches, and to abandon Outlook and IE for your day-to-day work, you can rest relatively easy. But you never know when some other application is calling on that "embedded browser functionality," when you're using that Outlook code without even realizing it.

Stross is strangely mum on the antitrust background of these matters. It's the ultimate, though not entirely unforeseen, irony of the Microsoft saga that the very integration-with-the-operating-system that enabled Microsoft to "cut off the air supply" of its Netscape competition is now looking more and more like the franchise's Achilles heel. Microsoft fought a tedious, embarrassing and costly legal war with the government to defend its right to embed Web browser functionality in the heart of the operating system. "Our operating system is whatever we say it is! How dare government bureaucrats meddle with our technology!" was the company's war cry.

Now it turns out that if Gates and company had paid a little more heed to the government they might have done their users, and their business, a favor. Microsoft's tight browser/operating system integration helped spell Netscape's corporate doom; today it is one of the biggest gaping holes in Windows security, and a legion of hostile viruses swarms through it.

Stross writes, "Stuck with code from a bygone era when the need for protection against bad guys was little considered, Microsoft cannot do much. It does not offer a new stand-alone version of Internet Explorer. Instead, the loyal customer must download and install the newest version of Service Pack 2. That, in turn, requires Windows XP. Those who have an earlier version of Windows are out of luck if they wish to stick with Internet Explorer."

But it's not quite that simple. Microsoft's reluctance to invest in browser development has stemmed only partly from the kind of inertia that comes from having won a war in a previous generation ("The browser? We own that space, we don't have to keep improving it"). Even more deeply, Microsoft has been reluctant to make the browser better -- more reliable, more secure, more flexible as an interface for more kinds of applications -- because its leaders understood very well what that would mean: The better the browser is, the less dependent people are on the operating system's features -- as today's users of well-designed Web applications like Gmail, Flickr and Basecamp demonstrate every day. This is not where Microsoft wants to see the computing world go, so why, once it gained a stranglehold on the browser market, would it help the process along?

In other words, what happened once Microsoft left the courtroom was precisely and exactly what the government's antitrust lawyers said would happen: Microsoft's goal in integrating the browser was not to serve the public and the users, but to shut down further innovation and development. Netscape argued that Microsoft wanted to control browsers because it wanted to make sure they did not emerge as a platform for applications that would undermine Windows' importance. Netscape, the record now shows, was right.

We lost three or four years of Internet time (from the collapse of the bubble to this year's Renaissance of Web applications) thanks to Microsoft's stonewalling and the Bush administration's unwillingness to represent the public interest in this matter. The next time a worm comes crawling through your Windows, curse the Justice Department's settlement -- and go download Firefox.

MTV to Cut Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP)

MTV to Cut Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP) 06/07/2004 03:42 PM
AP - Eminem's moon has been eclipsed. MTV plans to cut a shot of the rapper exposing his rear end to the audience at the 2004 Movie Awards when the show is broadcast Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, a network representative confirmed.

MTV to cut shot of Eminem exposing rear

MTV to cut shot of Eminem exposing rear 06/07/2004 03:35 PM

MTV to Edit Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP)

MTV to Edit Shot of Eminem Exposing Rear
(AP) 06/07/2004 08:18 PM
AP - Eminem's moon has been eclipsed. MTV plans to edit out a shot of the rapper exposing his rear end to the audience at the 2004 Movie Awards when the show is broadcast Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, a network representative confirmed Monday.

Minor Injuries as Train Is Rear-ended

Minor Injuries as Train Is Rear-ended 04/19/2004 12:22 PM
The accident this morning caused minor injuries and scattered rush-hour delays.

FC Now: Projection Rejection

FC Now: Projection Rejection 04/02/2005 06:37 AM
A Company of Friends member emailed other members of his group earlier this week with the following question: Yesterday, I had a discussion with a client, an SVP of product management, who -- along with all present -- agreed that...

"Election Projection"

"Election Projection" 01/24/2004 05:15 AM

Larger vehicles drive rear camera
utility

Larger vehicles drive rear camera
utility 11/16/2003 10:27 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 16 2003 9:14AM ET

Radio Shack's Wireless Rear-Channel
Amplifier

Radio Shack's Wireless Rear-Channel
Amplifier 04/30/2004 04:23 PM
Although he spends just as much time blathering about the need for wireless speaker connections as he does talking about technical details (and trust me, it happens, I know), Randy is pretty impressed with Radio Shack's 5.8Ghz Wireless Rear-Channel Amplifier that he used to connect his sister's 5.1 surround sound...

IBM boosts hiring projection

IBM boosts hiring projection 08/12/2004 01:23 PM
The computing giant bumps its already-hefty projection by 20 percent.

Cartography-Projection-GCTP-0.03

Cartography-Projection-GCTP-0.03 05/28/2004 12:33 AM

IDC boosts projection for PC shipments

IDC boosts projection for PC shipments 06/09/2004 05:18 PM

Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End
Accidents (Ontario)

Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End
Accidents (Ontario) 04/13/2005 04:28 AM
Study: Red Light Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End Accidents (Ontario) .. aren’t all they’re cracked up to be .. there's an increase, not decrease in accidents

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HP retains PDA pole position over
palmOne, RIM in rear view mirror

HP retains PDA pole position over
palmOne, RIM in rear view mirror 04/20/2004 09:54 AM
Computer Shopper Apr 20 2004 2:17PM GMT

Vizio RP56 56-Inch Projection TV

Vizio RP56 56-Inch Projection TV 07/21/2004 11:21 AM
Review: Vizio's new 56" rear-projection HDTV has a lot going for it. But when the rubber meets the road is it ready to race--or just spinning its wheels?

InFocus DepthQ: Cheap 3D Projection

InFocus DepthQ: Cheap 3D Projection 04/15/2005 09:59 AM

InFocus and Lightspeed Design Group are acnnouncing the InFocus DepthQ, an affordable 3D DLP projector that looks to me like a tweaked X2. It's not a solution for everyone—the 3D format are limited to "VESA VGA, page flip, stereo 3D format," and it requires the wearing of LCD shutter glasses—but it looks like many NVIDIA cards will support it, as well as some games (I'm not sure how much of the load is lifted by the video card driver and how much, if any, is done by the game). Still, it's cheap, at around $3,500, and uses solid Infocus technology. The only thing I can't determine is if it comes with a pair of shutter glasses or not (it looks like it doesn't).

Product Page [DepthQ]

Election Projection - 2004 Edition

Election Projection - 2004 Edition 01/23/2004 08:47 PM
2004 Election Projections Based On Current Polling Data

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Webl0gs: More Driving by the Rear-View
Mirror (or, Static Documents by One
Person)

Webl0gs: More Driving by the Rear-View
Mirror (or, Static Documents by One
Person) 06/16/2004 11:25 AM
Things written in stone were permanent — proverbially so. Things written in ink could be scratched out, but not erased….

" The US Census Bureau's Word Population
Projection "

" The US Census Bureau's Word Population
Projection " 04/08/2005 02:50 PM

Irish Cinemas Switch to Digital
Projection (AP)

Irish Cinemas Switch to Digital
Projection (AP) 03/24/2005 04:26 PM
AP - While digital projectors have been slow in making their entrance into American movie theater, Ireland is forging ahead to become the first country to convert all its movie theaters to digital projection.

Nippura's Curved Acrylic Projection
Screens

Nippura's Curved Acrylic Projection
Screens 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
The coolest thing about Nippura's 'Blue Ocean' rear projection screens isn't their visual acuity--which is said to be fantastic, but I've not seen it in person--but the fact that they've leveraged their extensive acrylic forming expertise to make screens that are not only frame-less, but can be molded into different...

Sony's Hi-Contrast Black Projection
Screen

Sony's Hi-Contrast Black Projection
Screen 09/16/2004 09:09 AM

Here's another shot of that Sony Hi-Contrast black front projection screen from CEDIA (it's the one producing the gorgeous colors on the left). While it may not replace white and gray screens for all applications, in situations with a lot of ambient light, this could really open up the market even more for front projection.

They aren't going to come cheap, though. Rumor pricing has it pegged at around $2,000 for an 80"-100" model, with chatter about a next summer release. That's just the screen we're talking about, not a projector to go with it.
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Sony's Black is Beautiful Projection Screen [Gizmodo]

Sony's Black is Beautiful Projection
Screen

Sony's Black is Beautiful Projection
Screen 06/18/2004 09:28 AM

So I saw this yesterday, then spent way too much time trying to track down a picture without subscribing to the Wall Street Journal (I steal my neighbor's copy), but it's too interesting not to mention. Apparently, Sony is showing off a new projector screen that is black (instead of the normal white or gray) that looks incredible even in high ambient light situations. What they've done is add a filter to the screen that only reflects red, green, and blue, ignoring (shunning!) white and yellow light from incandescent or fluorescent bulbs, and perhaps even that cursed floating hydrogen bulb, our sun. So that's great and all, but can we get a pic? Without paying $70, I mean?

I swear, once the Journal went to color they sold out all their indie cred.
Read [WSJ]

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Another Day, Another Rumor...

Another Day, Another Rumor... 01/26/2004 06:32 PM
The constant promise of another day.... Railheaddesign fuels more anticipation with the following:Tomorrow promises to be a 'big' day for Apple, so...

Rumor?

Rumor? 08/29/2004 06:14 PM

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There is word afoot that SP-2 does something we wouldn’t like. Although Microsoft insists that it’s a security measure, SP-2 is said to limit the number of TCP/IP open connections. Not a serious issue, you think? Well, think again. How do you suppose all those programs that work to accelerate your downloads do their magic? Yep- they open multiple TCP/IP pipes to one or more Internet locations and download your files in what seems like…

The Rumor That Just Won't Die

The Rumor That Just Won't Die 03/06/2004 02:07 AM
Is Microsoft helping fund the SCO lawsuits against Linux vendors and customers? The rumor just won't die.

Mac – Rumor Control

Mac – Rumor Control 06/25/2004 11:58 PM

Rumor Today: What's In 10.4?

Rumor Today: What's In 10.4? 05/05/2004 06:36 PM
AppleInsider has some guesses.

The Little Rumor Site That Could

The Little Rumor Site That Could 07/15/2004 04:58 AM
Spymac has gone from being a poster of supposed upcoming Apple products to a large and fast-growing community website, and it has one of the biggest profiles at Macworld. Leander Kahney reports from Boston.

The Rumor Game

The Rumor Game 01/07/2005 12:32 AM

Why Apple hates it when its product announcements leak as rumors.

Rumor Today: Mac OS X 10.3.4

Rumor Today: Mac OS X 10.3.4 05/02/2004 12:09 AM
Think Secret has the (sketchy) details.

Rumor Today: No Rumor Today

Rumor Today: No Rumor Today 05/08/2004 03:47 AM
AppleInsider reported Apple as saying: "We recently noticed... [that] the contents of Seed Note were leaked... The public reads the 'leaked info' and may assume the information is gospel. Customers will be disappointed and/or may count on false information."
Also from AppleInsider : Apple tells employees to 'speak positively' about resellers.

So Much for The Kerry Rumor?

So Much for The Kerry Rumor? 02/16/2004 08:09 PM
At least Drudge had the courtesy to link to this.

G-8 rumor control

G-8 rumor control 06/10/2004 11:11 AM

Rumor Of The Day: New iSights

Rumor Of The Day: New iSights 09/13/2004 10:44 AM
O'Grady's PowerPage: Details are sketchy, but one can assume that the new iSight camera will have more features to better work with the H.264/AVC video technology coming in Mac OS 10.4.
In related news, Apple is also secretly working on successors to the PowerBook, iBook, Power Mac, and iMac. Some will have modest upgrades, while others will be more "exciting." Apple intends to release new versions some time in the future, on a date which we have yet to be confirm. :-)

OTC Rumor List

OTC Rumor List 06/08/2004 02:35 AM
Our friends over at TheJawa.com have uncovered a new rumor list of potential new Original Trilogy Collection toys we may (or may not) see in the future. Many of these items have been rumored for the Saga line in the past, and there's a good mix of new/rehashed toys. As always, nothing is official yet, although I can confirm at least one item on the list...and no, I'm telling which one.

Another iPod killer rumor

Another iPod killer rumor 05/28/2004 10:46 AM

What has it been now a couple of years since the original iPod was released and people are still running around saying that there is going to be this device or that device that will knock the iPod off it's pedestal. Some company can only hope they get that lucky. Slashdot has the latest rumor and until a product is seen and tested all this talk is just vaporware. [Slashdot ]

Rumor Today: gTunes?

Rumor Today: gTunes? 06/17/2005 03:36 PM

Dave Winer: I've been hearing rumors that Google is readying an iTunes-clone, based on RSS 2.0, and fully podcast-capable. Multiple sources on this one.

Rumor Today: The Specs

Rumor Today: The Specs 04/19/2004 12:18 AM
AppleInsider has the specs for Apple's upcoming new laptops. Alas, in general, no price reduction.

Rumor Mill Keeps Turning

Rumor Mill Keeps Turning 06/22/2005 02:12 AM

All eyes are going to be on Seattle this coming week as I received a phone call today from a listener who filled me in on some information that he had received. Expect some very HUGE announcements, to happen during Gnomedex from at least two companies.

I have the story already written minus some details if I can get a cross confirmation from another source I am debating on saying anything because that would spoil some of the fun. I would also hate to have a lawyer come after me for breaking this so it will have to wait for now.

Mac rumor site ThinkSecret

Mac rumor site ThinkSecret 03/23/2005 02:28 AM
TechWhack Mar 23 2005 6:41AM GMT

Rumor Mill: EvDO in NYC?

Rumor Mill: EvDO in NYC? 08/27/2004 01:30 PM
Rumors are flying that Verizon is in the midst of building out EvDO in New York City: NYC will serve as a crucial example of how the higher-speed mobile data networks compete next to Wi-Fi. Both networks have upsides in the city. Wi-Fi is higher speed, lower cost, and available in many places. EvDO will be lower speed, higher cost, but available in more places (although cellular coverage is notoriously bad in the city). At the end of the day, there's a niche for both networks and if the price is right, enough customers for both....

LiveJournal Buyout Rumor

LiveJournal Buyout Rumor 01/05/2005 01:20 PM

Rumor Today: More Than The iMac?

Rumor Today: More Than The iMac? 08/27/2004 02:03 PM
Everybody knows that Apple will be unveiling the brand new iMac G5 next week at Apple Expo Paris. (Apple better be, after their earlier announcement about the discontinuation of the current iMac G4.)
But, AppleInsider is saying that there will be more products being launched too. (I hope it's more than just the expected iSight update.)

Do you buy the Apple Tablet rumor?

Do you buy the Apple Tablet rumor? 12/02/2003 01:58 AM
Ever since Bob Cringley posted his November 27th article titled, "Apple's Tablet Computer Might Finally Be That Link Between Your PC and TV" the Mac web has been abuzz in renewed Mac tablet/PDA speculation. We've heard it all before. Pre-MacWorld Expo Tablet Hysteria is as predictable as Pre-Millennium Armageddon Panic and, historically, just as likely to be accurate.

What do you say? Will 2004 be "The Year of the Tablet"? Sound off in our web poll!

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Rumor Today: AppleWorks X

Rumor Today: AppleWorks X 08/05/2004 06:05 PM
The source of the rumor? A listing for an upcoming book entitled "Ap pleWorks X for Mac OS X: A Visual Quickstart Guide."
I hope what this means is that Apple, in addition to Keynote, has now a word processing and a spreadsheet application. And AppleWorks X is a suite consisting of all these applications, plus, perhaps with a version of FileMaker Pro.
And, hopefully, like the current AppleWorks/ClarisWorks, the entire suite is also available for Windows.
One can dream, can't I?

Rumor Today: What's In The Next iPod

Rumor Today: What's In The Next iPod 04/27/2004 06:46 PM
AppleInsider believes it will have a 50GB hard disk (i.e. 12,500 songs), color screen for your photos, and video output jack.

Rumor Today: It's Here! It's Finally
Here!

Rumor Today: It's Here! It's Finally
Here! 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

For those who are still holding out from buying a Macintosh laptop, it's finally here (if you can believe today's rumor): Powerbook G5.

Prices start at $1,699.

Rumor Today: RealPlayer 10 For Mac OS X

Rumor Today: RealPlayer 10 For Mac OS X 06/24/2004 09:24 PM
Mac Observer: RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X incorporates many of the same features found on Apple's QuickTime and QuickTime Pro 6.5... but adds a large number of new features and advantages.

iPhone Rumor Rebound?

iPhone Rumor Rebound? 12/19/2004 03:26 PM
In a story found on Forbes.com today, Apple and Motorola have admitted they are working on a joint-venture phone to support a mobile version of iTunes...

Thomson's new ultrathin rear projection HDTVs

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