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IPWireless Mobile Broadband technology is a packet data implementation of the international 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) standard. Time-division-duplex (TDD) is used, according to the 3GPP UMTS UTRA UMTS TD-CDMA standard, allowing operation on unpaired spectrum anywhere in these bands. Chip rates of 3.84 and 7.68 megachips/sec (Mcps) are supported, for operation in channelization of 5 and10 MHz (6 and 12 MHz in the MMDS band).
We describe an efficient incentive mechanism for P2P systems that gen- erates a wide diversity of content offerings while responding adaptively to customer demand. Files are served and paid for through a parimutuel market similar to that commonly used for betting in horse races. An analysis of the performance of such a system shows that there exists an equilibrium with a long tail in the distribution of content offerings, which guarantees the real time provision of any content regardless of its popu- larity.
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Secure Browser
F2C is where communications policy meets networking technology, network economics, networked applications, and network construction and operation. F2C is dedicated to the proposition that strong networks build strong democracies, and vice versa.

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The email pardigm for voice with a totally new interaction paradigm. Looking forward to play with it
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The Firefox of VOIP
… Other firms in the alliance include Intel Corp., Motorola, Texas Instruments and Modeo, owned by Crown Castle International Corp., it said in a statement. The tie-up, called the Mobile DTV Alliance, aims to encourage open standards for TV broadcasts to mobiles, focusing on the North American market.
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld) technology bypasses mobile networks and broadcasts directly to handsets from TV masts, allowing millions of phone users to access the service at the same time.

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Trends analysis of the blogosphere
This system is an ultra high end HTPC showcasing Beyond TV 4 and capable of recording 11 shows, 4 high definition and 7 standard definition, at once. With Beyond TV 4’s HDTV support and with its unlimited tuners, you can create your own monster system.
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According to this guy, the linearity of blogs is bad. He suggests that hte solution will lie between wikis and RSS
LiveSupport is the first free and open radio management software that provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.

If you have concepts that push the boundaries for Interactive mobile content and formats, creative solutions for user-generated content, ideas that will help web users navigate the ‘long tail’ of a broadcaster’s rich archives, innovative content or applications for DMB Mobile TV, then you should enter Content 360 – Digital Pitching Competition at MIPTV featuring MILIA 2006.
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If I understand well, this is a metadata database for music tracks. It enables many new functions for software using it. It can associate metadata to a track based on its digital signature. A sort of CDDB for MP3 files.
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A great news platform for public broadcasting in canada. There are also plans to make it a canadian content source
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Another internet radio venture to circumvent a ban from the CRTC. Jeff Fillion can’t talk over the air anymore but listen to him on the Net for $5CAN a month.
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There was google video. There will be google radio.
Effective immediately, broadcasting and telecommunications policy and operations will largely be grouped under a converged structure and leadership. A new integrated Industry Analysis, Economics and Technology section will be created as a resource for both broadcasting and telecommunications.
The seven years since the 1998 Policy came into effect have seen the advent of new digital technologies and methods of distribution that are having a profound effect on the way in which people, particularly young people, obtain and listen to music. This is presenting the radio industry with new opportunities, but also new challenges: in addition to the satellite radio services now available, file-sharing, podcasting, downloading, and audio streaming, all facilitated through the increasing ubiquity of the Internet, offer new and often more flexible alternatives to the traditional practices of purchasing recorded music and listening to radio broadcasting.
“At one level it’s clear that the dam has broken,” said Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel. “There’s an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium, and that’s not going to stop.”

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Step by step tutorial on mp3 tags for podcasting
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a short clip service for mobile phones
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Open critics about the famous Apple service persented in Apple’s own graphic design!
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This site looks like a great source for podcasting news
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A service that supports the discovery and sharing of podcasts
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Searching podcasts based on text. The service uses automatic speech recognition (ASR)
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Another podcast search engine based on text. The service uses automatic speech recognition (ASR)
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Reat-time Radio and TV monitoring
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A news source for canadian broadcasting
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more and more voip applications
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A good paper on the potential of blogs and wikis as scientific publications mechanisms
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An interesting conference in Montreal next april on mobile social software.
- the squeezebox music network player made by Slim Devices
- the SlimServer, provided by the same company
- the Apple Mac mini
- a WRT54G Linksys Wifi access point
The client side looked quite funny with the slim device feeding an old amplifier from the 70s (note the 8-track cartridge player):
On the Mac I also installed a VNC server so that I could control it without a keybord and a monitor connected to it:
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