Motorola Buying Broadbus Technologies -- Broadbus is a SW based video-on-demand (VOD) system vendor. This article cites Mot as a cell phone maker, but this probably has more to do with their cable TV business. They provide both headend and settop equipment for cable and IPTV.
Amazon Looks to Movie Downloads
Although it has refused to confirm, Amazon has been rumored to be readying its video download service for launch in mid-August. First reported by trade magazine Advertising Age on Sunday, the service is said to offer both movies and episodes of television shows.
Judge Refuses to OK Telco Mergers
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told lawyers representing the interests of both SBC and AT&T and of Verizon and MCI that he could not give final approval to either merger unless he received more information. While both have been given the go-ahead by the FCC, the courts have not yet decided if the mergers are in the public interest.
Nokia N73 Starts Shipping -- "a stunning multimedia computer with excellent photography features and integrated stereo speakers for optimized audio pleasure"
this story starts out not without its amusement and then takes a hard right at the end.
the comments are telling coming from both sides.
Intel has been spanked in the high-end server market by AMD, but in the mainstream market Intel is poised to
bury the competition by setting new benchmarks in bang for the buck.
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI
"There’ll be multiple Da Vinci chips, but one of the first ones we announced has for instance 10/100Mbps Ethernet, on the chip. It also has USB 2.0 on the chip, and an LCD driver. So if you’re thinking of making a portable media player, for instance, and you’re thinking of giving it network connectivity, Da Vinci would allow you to do that very easily, with a minimal number of chips."
josh marshall politely gutted on mushy lieberman positioning.
I heard the
angry arab guy on NPR yesterday. He's a prof at California State University, Stanislaus (in the Sierra foothills). His peeps are from south Lebanon.
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"The report also found that conservative Christian schools -- a constituency that supports vouchers -- lagged significantly behind public schools in eighth-grade math. The report supported similar findings from a University of Illinois study on math."
"Fundamentalist conservatives will be sorely disappointed if the government doen't come through with those vouchers because they are really counting on the eleventy three-hundert dollars per student which will allow them to purchase copies of Heather's Mommy Speaks in Tongues and Biology 101: Men Are From Dust, Women Are From Ribs."