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Happy new year my fellow news readers, I hope you had as good as a time as me last night! ;) Anyway plenty of news to catch up on, so let's get to it.
To start off, Joe from Computing On Demand has a rant about AOL in his latest little article called AOL - First Glimpse at Hypocrisy.
The Tech Zone takes a look at what it takes to do 100% legal music downloads.
Unfortunately the death toll from the tsunami has topped 126,000, with Indonesia saying that it has stopped trying to count precisely how many people were killed. More than $1.4bn has donated for the relief effort, but Ryan sent in a link where you can do your part.
Designtechnica recently conducted an interview with Tony Jasionowski, a Panasonic executive who is involved in that company’s recordable DVD strategies. He also is involved in two industry wide organizations – the Recordable DVD Council and RAM Promotion Group. Jasionowski, while definitely in favor of promoting Panasonic’s viewpoints on the DVD recorder market, had quite a few interesting things to say about the current choices and issues facing consumers.
Vec sent in this timewaster, called Crypt Raider.
This weeks Under the Influence story has been posted, this one entitled Are You Ready For Some Football.
Dan has more letters posted, covering hosts files, toy-cam purchasing wisdom, LED-lit shuttlecraft, tungsten hunting, angry quacks, and three more chunks of audiophile nut fun.
The DD crew has a new article up in a series of "Modding Boot Camp" pieces where they will show some of the fundamental skills of modding.
Techspot has an interesting read on Microsoft SPOT service and Suunto n3 Smart Watches. From the article: About four years ago, Microsoft's R&D team came up with a new technology called Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) which uses FM radio signals to broadcast information to your wristwatch. After a few delays, the SPOT service was finally launched earlier this year with four companies producing SPOT enabled watches: Suunto, Fossil, Tissot and Swatch. According to the software giant, thousands of watches have been sold since the service launch.
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