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Mobile DVD can not be optimistic about the situation? "Recently, reporters from the city several stores found a strange phenomenon, as many digital products are sold in full swing, the Mobile DVD will look highbrow. Although its function more and more complete, but had to face the embarrassment of many months of dismal sales, it in the DVD and other digital products caught in between regular video struggling to survive.

"Mobile DVD is a player in the field of high-end product, its appearance is only one-third of normal DVD, it creates fully personalized video space." Recently, the U.S. home appliance stores in Huizhou, China, promoters to the reporter recommended Tao .

Alleged that during the go can enjoy the feeling of moving home theater DVD and not by the public of all ages. "Mobile DVD for people to buy more narrowly, half of potential customers ‘car owners’ direct buy car DVD, the remaining part of those who travel frequently for business." In the visit, the reporter found, mobile DVD is placed in a special counter in some stores of the promoters is brains mining, selling mobile DVD selling point.

"This may be related to a city level and consumer attitudes about the economy," the deputy manager of Huizhou Suning told reporters flying children, the current brand sales of mobile DVD only backgammon, Malata, Shinco several major brands , types of small, mobile DVD’s main selling point to attract only a small part of the crowd.

Indeed, mobile DVD how to survive in the cracks and have a better way? Must have this problem also cause headaches.

Although current mobile DVD sales awkward, but the trade, Mobile DVD’s profit margin is substantial, with the "car owners" More and more, the prospects are very bright, will be the development of the mobile terminal, which lost only in the secondary cities face the challenge is temporary.

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In case you’re unfamiliar with this particular model, it offers up to 20 hours of high-def recording, a pair of HD tuners, and a boatload of cool networking features (like movie downloads from Amazon Unbox and music from Rhapsody). The bummer, of course, is that you have to pay an extra fee for service: $12.95 monthly, $129 annually, or $399 lifetime. Bleh. That’s the only thing that’s kept TiVo out of Cheapskate Manor.

Few people would disagree that TiVo is the ultimate DVR. Here’s your chance to scoop up a TiVo HD for just $179.99 shipped (plus service). These are refurbished units, but TiVo gives you the same 30-day money-back guarantee and warranty (one year for parts, 90 days for labor) that they provide with new models. Score!

Still, at least the hardware’s cheap: A new TiVo HD would run you $299.99. For more info on this beloved DVR, check out the above video as well as CNET’s extensive hands-on review. Thankfully, you don’t have to deal with any rebates, but you should probably act quickly if you’re interested: I don’t expect these will last long.

Hot Mama adds an anecdote: Last Friday, YouTube was accessible but anything related to what we called T%%% to avoid filters would return a message to the effect of, “This content is not available in your country.” Though it would be relatively easy for Chinese filters to replicate this result, this may indicate some effort on YouTube/Google’s part. Mama reports that YouTube soon went completely dark, until just now.

I’m in Osaka, Japan, but a friend in Beijing, who prefers to be identified as “Hot Mama in Beijing,” confirms.

The YouTube messages are still vexing. Was YouTube cooperating or was this a very smart error message? To have a Google property that’s not Google China itself cooperating with Chinese censorship would be unprecedented, to my knowledge.

This is by no means certain to be Google involvement. Transmitting sensitive keywords may have triggered a stall that Google recognized as trouble–something Hot Mama would not have usually seen in Beijing or New England. Similarly, YouTube may have correctly interpreted the block and redirected to a human readable error page rather than the usual “reset connection.”

William Long at Moonlight Blog reports that YouTube is again accessible from his connection in China.

Another glitch that emerged, which may suggest some sort of Google involvement, is that when Mama was sending Gmail messages, anything containing the nonredacted T%%%, or even its first three letters, would return an error message she’d never seen, stating that there was an error while sending.

I asked Hot Mama, who also wanted me to mention she’s a truck driver (seriously), to try to access her Gmail, which had been terribly slow, using an anti-censorship micro-tactic: Instead of accessing http://mail.google.com, go for https://mail.google.com. The result was stark, she said. Everything loaded much faster. This suggests that encrypted communications are not being seriously delayed but that language filters are engaging a larger portion of traffic than usual.

In his stump appearances (as well as during his Thursday press conference), the president argues that the old FISA law is out of date and fails to allow government security arms to quickly track foreign terrorists on foreign soil “quickly and effectively.”

Hardly a week goes by without President Bush urging Congress to pass a law to facilitate domestic federal eavesdropping on suspected terrorists’ phone calls and e-mails.

Bush made it seem that FISA requests routinely get held up by recalcitrant, fuddy-duddy judges. But if the Justice Department fails to get its way, it can always appeal to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (They needed to go that far just once in the history of the law.) Bottom line: The Feds nearly always get what they want. So why is Bush making a big megilla out of this? Hmm, rumor has it there’s a big election in the offing.

“I wouldn’t put it that way, if I were you, in public. Well, you’ve been long been long enough to–anyway, yes, I– look, there’s–people who analyze the program fully understand that America’s civil liberties are well protected. There is a constant check to make sure that our civil liberties of our citizens aren’t–you know, are treated with respect. And that’s what I want, and that’s what most–all Americans want…”

The president didn’t bother getting into the nitty-gritty. I can understand that. FISA created a secret court, which since 1978 has been able to grant wiretapping orders upon request. What’s more, during emergencies, FISA–the “old FISA, I should add–lets the attorney general to conduct wiretaps without court approval.

The controversy centers on whether to extend legal immunity to telecommunications firms that carried out Uncle Sam’s bidding and wiretapped U.S. phone and computer lines without first getting court permission. The Senate says yes, while the House says no.

The House and Senate versions of the surveillance bill–called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act–need to be reconciled. But politics is in the air (I know, you’re shocked, shocked.)

“The law expired; the threat to America has not expired. Congress understood last year that FISA did not give our intelligence professionals the tools they needed to keep us safe. The Senate understands that the FISA–old FISA didn’t give us the tools needed to protect America. The bipartisan bill it passed provides those tools our intelligence professionals need. Yet the House’s failure to pass this law raises the risk of reopening a gap in our intelligence gathering, and that is dangerous.”

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Asked later if Americans are essentially being told that when it comes to their privacy, the answer was “to suck it up,” Bush responded:

“I guess you could be relaxed about all this if you didn’t think there was a true threat to the country. I know there’s a threat to the country. And the American people expect our Congress to give the professionals the tools they need to listen to foreigners who may be calling into the United States with information that could cause us great harm.”

Here are the relevant excerpts:

As such, he contends the nation is in danger from terror attacks now that the temporary surveillance law has expired. If you didn’t catch the president’s morning press conference, here’s a link to the text play-by-play.

George Bush

• A new tool can combine the sharpest parts of multiple photos of the same frame. It takes a couple minutes to run, but can help provide a sharp photograph of a subject–for example a series of close-up shots taken with a macro lens with a very shallow depth of field.

Photoshop is a famously taxing piece of software, but beginning with the upcoming
CS4 version, it’ll be able to employ the muscle of your computer’s graphics chip for the first time.

A companion product geared specifically for photographers, Photoshop Lightroom, has 64-bit support for both
Mac and Windows, but Adobe couldn’t do the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4 for Mac OS X because it was busy moving to a new underlying programming foundation from Apple, called Cocoa.

Adobe's Creative Suite 4 comprises many sub-brands.

“For most people, with a 12-megapixel SLR file or doing Web design work, the difference they’ll see is pretty negligible. The inflection point from 32-bit to 64-bit really happens where you would have run out of memory and would have had to go to your virtual memory system,” storing data on the hard drive rather than in memory, Nack said. “There’s a tenfold performance increase opening up a large file.”

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• Panoramic stitching gets new options: it can be used to create full 360-degree wraparounds, so the right and left edges mate correctly, and it corrects for lens vignetting, which could cause dark-and-light undulations in even-toned areas such as the sky.

• Content-aware scaling, known as seam carving from its research days, lets users change an image’s proportions while protecting important areas from distortion. That’s a useful option for those adapting content for small screens on mobile devices, for example.

• The Camera Raw 5.0 import filter inherits some local-editing abilities in Lightroom 2.0, such as the ability to selectively darken or lighten particular patches of a photo.

“It’s not lost on us that when you look at the rate of GPU power advancement, there’s an enormous wealth of cycles we can take advantage of now,” Nack said. “The rate of price drop and performance gain has been off the charts.”

Using graphics chips opens up new horizons, but it poses its challenges. For one thing, graphics chips are designed to blast pixels to the screen, not back to the main processor for further work, so not all tasks can be accelerated, he said. For another, it means Adobe has to work more carefully on hardware compatibility and means some people with older machines might have to upgrade at least the video card; he recommends a card with 128MB of memory.

Other features
The new version has a number of other features, though Nack emphasized work to polish existing abilities, too, such as the ability to select and delete multiple channels. There are some notable changes, though.

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Adobe Systems CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks at the company's CS4 launch event.

The upgrade price for Photoshop is $199 for the Photoshop CS4 and $349 for CS4 Extended; prices for the new versions are $699 and $999. The Extended version adds a variety of special-purpose abilities for dealing with scientific applications, dealing with medical imagery, and creating 3D subject matter. The company also offers its consumer-level Photoshop Elements for about $100 and its online Photoshop Express for free.

Content-aware scaling lets people change the proportions of an image while protecting important areas from distortion. (Click to enlarge.)

The new version of Adobe’s flagship software product takes its first steps in using the graphics processing unit, or GPU, said John Nack, principal product manager for Adobe Photoshop. For example, the graphics chip helps Photoshop CS4 fluidly zoom in and out, rotate the canvas so artists can reorient an image for the best sketching angle, display and manipulate 3D objects, and handle color correction.

The software will be available in October, the company said.

• With the 3D mode in CS4 Extended, people can paint directly on 3D objects rather than having to unwrap a skin, paint on it, then rewrap it.

One benefit of the Flash technology is it’s network-enabled. That permits integration, for example, with Adobe’s Kuler site for creating harmonious color combinations, so palettes can be imported into Photoshop. Another possibility is a “geo” tab that could be added while browsing image information, showing where on a map a geotagged photo was taken.

Now with 64-bit support
Another hardware change–for Windows users only–is support for 64-bit processors. Most folks won’t notice much of a speedup–perhaps 10 percent in some cases–but performance is much better in some memory-intensive areas where the 4GB limit of 32-bit software is a problem.

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“Typically, when folks were building a big Photoshop rig…we never had to really concern ourselves with things like which video driver they were using. We had a very light integration. Anything was fine,” Nack said. “Now that we’re doing actual processing on the GPU, we have to be a good deal more stringent.”

Adobe plans to release a Configurator application to help people create their own panels, part of the company’s effort to make a Photoshop that can be better tailored to specific tasks. That software currently is scheduled to arrive sometime around the end of October, Nack said.

“Now you can drop a SWF (Shockwave Flash file) into your Photoshop folder and extend the application,” Nack said. “This is going to be a huge shot in the arm for people developing on top of the application.”

Another new GPU-enabled feature is called Pixel Bender, which lets people apply special effects quickly and, Adobe promises, create their own effects more easily than with today’s filter technology. However, that missed the cut for the final version of CS4 and likely will be a free update at the Adobe Labs site, Nack said

Photoshop, meet Macromedia
Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia gave the company access to the Flash technology for animation and scripting, and Photoshop CS4 now employs it in the plumbing. In the past, it was tough for third-party software developers to add new features to Photoshop, but built-in Flash 10 software means Photoshop will accommodate control panels from third parties.

Unless there’s more to the story–a tie-up with another player like Sony’s X Series Walkman or Microsoft’s
Zune, for instance–how can anybody possibly think this will succeed?

Apparently, some folks in the music business still haven’t learned the lesson about Apple and iPod support, as demonstrated by recent reports that the major labels are planning to launch a new format for digital albums. Operating under the working name of CMX (as a friend quipped, “8-track” was already taken), the new format will allow users to browse album art, read lyrics, and so on. Basically, it’s trying to duplicate some of the fun of buying and unwrapping LP records.

Unfortunately, Apple’s not playing ball, but is rather working on its own competing format, code-named Cocktail.

Album art is fine, but I’m more excited about the music in the grooves.

So let’s get this straight. First, it’s a new format. Unless it takes advantage of existing technology like Adobe’s Flash, that means users will have to download some new software or plug-in to access these files. Second, this format is meant to be consumed from your computer. But in my experience, the main reason to put digital music on a computer is in order to move it to other devices. Third–and probably most important–without Apple’s support, the format won’t be compatible with iTunes, the iPod, or
iPhone. You can count the market share of the other players in this field on your fingers. Finally, the entire premise assumes that people aren’t buying complete albums in digital format because they’re not getting the fetishistic experience they used to get–unwrapping the physical object, admiring the cover, reading the liner notes. But the sad fact is that a lot of albums aren’t and never were worth buying, and customers grew tired of paying $18 for one song they liked. (Chumbawamba, anyone?). Digital downloads free us from bundling practices that we never liked in the first place.

Reading through Greg Sandoval’s detailed reporting of SpiralFrog’s demise, I once again found myself wondering–as I did many times during the late 1990s dot-com boom and subsequent bust–how anybody could possibly have thought this was a good idea. Ad-supported music downloads that are incompatible with the
iPod, the device that basically created the MP3 player market? Who would possibly buy such a thing? SpiralFrog seemed like such an obvious nonstarter, I wrote about it once in 2007 and never wasted time revisiting it. But investors were spending serious sums of money on it, right up until the end.

Tesla filed a complaint against Henrik Fisker’s design company, Fisker Coachbuild, in April, accusing the company of copying its luxury sedan designs.

Fisker Automotive responded in May, when it filed for arbitration.

The suit said that Fisker and Bernhard Koehler, Fisker Coachbuild’s chief operating officer, accepted the contract “to gain access to confidential design information and trade secrets, then announced a competing vehicle.”

Tesla Motors did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Tesla Roadster

The contract between Fisker and Tesla had a clause that required that any disputes be handled through arbitration in Orange County, Calif., within 90 days, according to Fisker. Tesla filed its suit against Fisker in San Mateo Superior Court.

The San Mateo Superior Court on Wednesday granted Fisker Automotive’s request for arbitration, according to the court’s records. A case management conference is scheduled for later in August.

On Thursday, Henrik Fisker released a statement, saying his company is “extremely pleased” with the court’s decision.

Tesla Motors’ case against Fisker Automotive over allegedly stolen electric
car designs is scheduled to go to arbitration.

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“Fisker Automotive is extremely pleased with this ruling because it allows it to get a prompt and economical resolution of Tesla’s claims, all of which are believed to be without merit and brought for improper purposes,” he said in a statement.

While this book - and most technical books about the Internet - will become obsolete quickly simply because of how fast the web changes, it is a worthy investment for anyone wanting to create a blog right now. It’s an easy read, flows logically, offers well-researched suggestions, and is full of quality information.

Looking to get started with a blog? More importantly, do you hope to monetize that blog? There are a lot of articles and books on blogging these days, many with limited or inaccurate information, but How To Make Money With Your Blog is one of the most complete and thorough publications on the subject that I’ve encountered. Authors Duane Forrester (a search engine marketer) and Gavin Powell (a technical writer) have covered all the important bases from identifying the best blogging platforms to covering the ins and outs of blogosphere culture. Oh yeah, and in between, they explain quite clearly the options for monetizing a blog.

Central to the name of the book, and probably the most interesting to those attracted by the pecuniary title, is the section on generating revenue with a blog. Options discussed include affiliate programs, contextual ads, and ad networks. The authors go into detail on each one, and even recommend specific partner services in each of those industries. They also warn that, while it is quite possible to earn income off of a blog, it takes a highly trafficked site for significant money to be made. Still, the book is encouraging and makes the reader feel confident about pursuing a monetized blog.

The book contains five main sections, including Quick Starts: Top 10 lists; Blogs and Search Optimization (SEO); Generating Revenue With Your Blog; Managing Your Blog; and Extras and Inspiration. While the quick start lists were interesting and worth a read, they weren’t particularly useful. The meat of the book begins with the section on SEO. Like any website, getting found in the search engines is extremely important if you intend to make any money. All of their SEO tips are excellent and would apply to any site, blog or otherwise. The blog management section is also quite good, much of it being basic business management, but some of it also dealing with syndication and promotion on the web. The inspirational section is less focused. It contains many points on blogging culture and blog etiquette, and while those with some blogging experience might find it commonplace, it will interest people completely new to blogging.

Facebook Chat might’ve had a simple and quiet launch, but a month later, the social network is already announcing plans to upgrade.

Engineer David Reiss announced Tuesday evening on the Facebook Developer Blog that Facebook Chat will soon have an Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) interface–that’s better known as Jabber. This will mean that external clients will be able to incorporate Facebook Chat, currently restricted in most cases to the browser.

Through Facebook’s official Jabber support, which is coming “in the near future,” Facebook members will be able to not only chat with their friends, but also see friends’ profile pictures through the IM client and set their Facebook statuses.

Universal IM clients Digsby (which is PC-only) and Adium (which is
Mac-only) have already worked in ways to support Facebook Chat.