| HD DVD camp implodes
The emerging story of CES so far is the seeming implosion of HD DVD. After the defection of Warners to rival Blu-ray camp, the format – backed by Microsoft and Toshiba – is left with just Universal and Paramount as the only major studios to support the hi def disc. The HD DVD camp turned a crisis into a disaster when it cancelled its scheduled press conference at the show and then – perhaps unsurprisingly – cancelled all media interviews at the show. It's left observers with the impression that the HD DVD group is in disarray and on the verge of collapse. Blu-ray, on the other hand, is only to eager to parade spokespeople talking up its own format. Whatever happens next its clear that consumers are the ones who are suffering.
Restaurateur to pay $150K for hiring illegal immigrants
The owner of a chain of popular Chinese restaurants plans to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from employing illegal immigrants. Louie Li, a naturalized American from China, will pay a $150,000 fine to settle the charges, said Dave Gaouette, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver. Li, also known as Ting Fu Li, will appear in U.S. District Court on March 6 at 1:30 p.m. He was arrested Dec. 21 on a complaint charging him with unlawfully harboring and transporting aliens. Li, his wife and sister-in-law own the South Garden restaurant chain, which has locations in Denver, Parker and Castle Rock. The restaurants remain open. Workers said they worked for lower than minimum wage at the restaurants. They've since been deported to Mexico.
Adobe ships InDesign, After Effects, InCopy updates
Adobe today released several updates to its software applications for professionals, including After Effects, InDesign, and InCopy. The Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software 8.0.2 update provides Panasonic P2 format support, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard compatibility fixes, Mac OpenGL support for supported video cards under Mac OS X v10.4.10 and v10.5, and other important fixes. The update for its professional video editing solution is 106.3MB and is available online. Adobe also noted that the Adobe InCopy CS3 5.02 update, for its provides key fixes in the areas of character alignment, undo and redo, text and fonts, dictionaries, import/export graphics, and others; the installer includes fixes from all previously released InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates (and previous InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates are no longer available separately.
Sanyo's High-End Camcorder Boxes You In
Sometimes things just don't work out the way they're supposed to. Take, for example, this review of Sanyo'sSANYY Xacti HD 1000 digital movie camera. I brought it along with me to test under real working conditions -- at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, last month. The idea was that my producer-cinematographer Dee Robinson would shoot me with his professional Panasonic camera (with a Leica lens) -- and I would shoot him shooting me using the Sanyo HD1000. Both of us would shoot in full HD. In the Sanyo's case, that means 1920 by 1080 pixels. The Panasonic was also set at full 1080i. The plan was for Dee to edit everything together when we got home. Notice I wrote that in the past tense. That's because we couldn't edit anything together. Actually, we couldn't even see the Sanyo's video on any of our AppleAAPL Mac or Windows computers.
Mother Earth Mother Board
The financial districts of New York, London, and Tokyo, linked by thousands of wires, are much closer to each other than, say, the Bronx is to Manhattan. Today this is all quite familiar, but in the 19th century, when the first feeble bits struggled down the first undersea cable joining the Old World to the New, it must have made people's hair stand up on end in more than just the purely electrical sense - it must have seemed supernatural. Perhaps this sort of feeling explains why when Samuel Morse stretched a wire between Washington and Baltimore in 1844, the first message he sent with his code was "What hath God wrought!" - almost as if he needed to reassure himself and others that God, and not the Devil, was behind it. During the decades after Morse's "What hath God wrought!" a plethora of different codes, signalling techniques, and sending and receiving machines were patented.
Young Jeezy Fights To Get On Usher Track; DJ Felli Fel Wrangles Kanye ...
So they playing it on the radio in Atlanta and Houston [now]. Soon as it went out there, they asked for a clean version. If you ever walking around with 20, 30 grand in your pocket sticking out, your jeans hanging off ya a--, you walking with a waddle. I like to have fun, pimp." » "51 Rounds." "If you play with me, it's over for you," Zoe said, matter-of-factly. "You know how Brett Favre's aim was back in the day? He would hit [Shannon] Sharpe in the chest with the rock. That's what I'm talking about. You don't want that." » "Rumble in the Jungle." "That's the intro to the mixtape," Zoe explained. "I just really wanna show people what the mixtape is [about]. If it starts like that, you know it's crazy." Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week
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