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Sony To Launch Service That Will Rival Apple's iTunes
Bead 'Slashes Mobile Radiation'
Writing Style Guide for E-Mail and E-Commerce
Google Hires Top Firefox Programmer
Linux "Has The Potential to Fragment''
Mac Night Owl: The State of the Mac: Things Change
Gene & Grayson Steinberg meet Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, Macworld's Christopher Breen and Mac's Only publisher Bill Fox this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE
Envision Web Show of the Week for 1/24/2005[/url]


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Sony To Launch Service That Will Rival Apple's iTunes

gigwise.com's Lowri Williams reports:

"Sony is to setup a global music download service under the Playstation brand in an attempt to take on the dominance of Apple’s iTunes.

"The service is being developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, it will eventually allow music to be downloaded onto the Playstation Portable which will launch in the UK in March, reports Brand Republic."

For the full report, visit here.
http://www.gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=4051






Bead 'Slashes Mobile Radiation'

BBC News reports:

"Radiation from hands-free mobile phones can be reduced to virtually zero by a simple tiny magnetic bead which costs a few pence, a government adviser says.

"Professor Lawrie Challis said clipping a ferrite bead on kits stops the radio waves travelling up the wire and into the head.

"He called on the mobile phone industry to start using them 'as standard'.

"The beads, which often measure less than 1cm in diameter, are commonly used to stop data interference in computers."

For the full report, visit here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4203077.stm







Writing Style Guide for E-Mail and E-Commerce

E-Commerce Times' Anthony Mitchell says:

"Each organization can define and adopt its own unique style for e-commerce and e-mail applications, whereby every Web page and e-mail conveys a sense of stylistic consistency. Large organizations might designate a style committee or an individual style czar. A style sheet can be distributed to everyone within an organization to promote professionalism and uniformity.

"Popular style guides such as Strunk and White's 1918 classic The Elements of Style and the original 1906 Chicago Manual of Style were published before the advent of computers or e-mail. As such, their rules are not always relevant to the exigencies of e-commerce and electronic business communications.

"Updated style guidance is needed for the era of e-commerce and e-mail if we are to avoid projecting an unprofessional image and alienating both colleagues and customers. The guidance offered herein initially focuses on both e-commerce Web sites and e-mail, and then on e-mail only. It takes into account recent social changes and the advent of e-mail security."

You can check it out at:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/39958.html






Google Hires Top Firefox Programmer

Reuters reports:

"Web search company Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web browser, fueling speculation that Google will create its own version of Firefox to take on Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.

"Ben Goodger said in a note on his Web site -- http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/ -- that he would continue to work on Firefox, a free browser that has gained a popular following due to additional features and fewer attacks from malicious hackers than Internet Explorer.

"Internet cognoscenti have speculated about a Google browser since the company registered the Gbrowser.com domain and hired several Internet Explorer engineers last year."

For the full report, visit here:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/25/technology/google_firefox.reut/index.htm






Linux "Has The Potential to Fragment''

"Microsoft Group Vice-President Kevin Johnson predicts the upstart operating system will go the way of Unix

"Kevin Johnson, Microsoft group vice-president for worldwide sales, marketing, and services, has some interesting challenges. Since Microsoft has monopolies in two of its major markets -- PC operating systems and productivity applications -- Johnson's main job there is to keep people buying upgrades. But with the growing popularity of the Linux open-source operating system on desktops and in servers, Johnson also has to fight a rear-guard action.

"He recently spoke about the Linux assault with BusinessWeek Senior Writer Steve Hamm. Edited excerpts of their conversation can be found here:

http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918010_mz001.htm







Mac Night Owl: The State of the Mac: Things Change

Today, the answer is no. But tomorrow, it's yes, or something of that sort.

Here's the URL for today's commentary:

http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#change






Gene & Grayson Steinberg meet Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, Macworld's Christopher Breen and Mac's Only publisher Bill Fox this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE

This week Gene and Grayson discuss the state of the Mac with Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus and Mac 911 columnist Christopher Breen. You'll also learn all about the performance of the Mac mini with Bill Fox, editor and publisher of Macs Only.

You can tune into the broadcast Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.macradio.com/thursday . An archive of the show will be available for listening at your convenience within eight hours of the original broadcast.







Envision Web Show of the Week for 1/24/2005

On January 14 the Huygens probe, launched from the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, landed on the surface of Saturn's major moon Titan, sending back an amazing wealth of data as it descended through Titan's atmosphere and landed on the surface. This week's Envision Web Show of the Week presents the raw data from that landing in a very interesting and dynamic show.

For this and future Shows of the Week, please be sure you are running our new Envision 1.1 (a free upgrade available through http://www.opendoor.com/envision/ ). The Envision Web Show of the Week can be downloaded from the Show of the Week Web site at:
http://www.opendoor.com/envision/ShowOfTheWeek.html

Previous Shows of the Week are available in the Show of the Week archive.



Charles W. Moore

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