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Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue....
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0400
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
IBM Helps Link POS to the Back Office
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400
IBM and Epicor jointly release an offering that centrally manages and supports POS....

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Strike slows downtown construction projects
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:39:21 -0700
A strike has shut down or slowed work at some of the Seattle area's largest construction projects.
Investors sweeten Puget Sound Energy sale for public
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:57:36 -0700
Backers of a sale of the state's largest utility company, Puget Energy, offered Wednesday to sweeten the proposed deal for consumers by taking $100 million off any potential rate increases over the next 10 years.
Employers cut jobs for sixth straight month
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:50:59 -0700
Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held...

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Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:38:40 -0000
The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
Bits: Justice Looks Further at Google-Yahoo Deal
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:04:14 -0000
The Justice Department’s antitrust division has begun issuing subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive.
Bits: What Is Facebook Worth? (Part 37)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:12:43 -0000
A document in the settled Facebook ConnectU litigation reveals that Facebook’s common shares are worth a quarter of the value of the stock Microsoft purchased when it invested in the social network.

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Judge orders YouTube to reveal its viewers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:53:41 -0400
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Microsoft may refresh Yahoo bid
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:42:37 -0400
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Create new agency to study planet, group says
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:05:29 -0400
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Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.
Young Moroccans Bypass Mainstream Media
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0400
When protesters in southern Morocco clashed with security forces, there was very little coverage from state-run television stations. But amateur video posted on YouTube showed what the official media would not. Young Moroccans say the Web is leaving traditional media behind.
Would a Ban on Car Conversation Be More Effective?
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400
California and Washington join the long list of states to ban handheld cell phone use while driving. It's the conversation, not the phone, that's distracting, research says. Do these laws really make our roads safer?

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Google must divulge YouTube log
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.
Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000
The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.
Firefox download record official
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:28:35 -0000
The creators of Firefox 3.0 celebrate the news they have set a new world record for software downloads.

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Robo barman pulls first pint
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0400
Jul. 3 - Billed as the world's first robot barman, Mr Asahi pulls the crowds at London's Selfridges department store.
Tongue device to aid disabled
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:45:45 -0400
Jun. 30 - A new device that uses a tiny magnet can help disabled people steer a wheelchair or operate a computer using only the tip of the tongue.
MSN portal goes 'social'
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:10:23 -0400
Jun. 30 - Microsoft is announcing new services intended to reflect the social phenomenon taking place on the internet.

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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
By ANICK JESDANUN Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:57:36 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....
Police wnt u to fight crime w/txt msgs
By MITCH STACY Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:35:43 -0000
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs - to identify criminals using text messages....

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EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStation
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:00 -0700
After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii.
Video: Latest in Viacom-Google lawsuit raises questions
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:48:00 -0700
News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.
Researcher faults Apple iPhone on security updates
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:22:00 -0700
He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.

 

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3GPP SA4 - This working group of the standardization organization deals with codecs like enhanced aacPlus or AMR-WB+ used in mobile telecommunication.

AES Publications - All available articles and documents from the Journal of Audio Engineering Society with search tool including a CD about coding artifacts.

Apple - Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard.

Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics - Book by Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg.
Meta Description: [ Amazon.com: Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science): Books: Mark Kahrs,Karlheinz Brandenburg by Mark Kahrs,Karlheinz Brandenburg ]

Audio Research Labs - ARL is a commercial laboratory involved in subjective quality assessment methods like preparing and analyzing codec comparisons for 3GPP.

Audiocoding.com - The open source project FAAC includes an AAC encoder and decoder (FAAD2) with source code packages, developer mailing list, knowledge base, news section and user forum.
Meta Description: [ AudioCoding.com provides a knowledge base about audio coding as well as some excellent AAC audio codecs (FAAD2 and FAAC). ]

Coding Technologies - Company that invented Spectral Band Replication (SBR) and combined it with MP3 (mp3PRO) and AAC (aacPlus or HE AAC).
Meta Description: [ Coding Technologies is successfully developing and implementing unique audio technology solutions for the broadcasting, Internet and Telecommunication markets. ]

Digital Radio Mondiale - DRM is a world-wide initiative to use analog AM radio for digital sound and services implementing aacPlus at very low bitrates, often mixed up with Digital Rights Management for copy protection.

404 Dissertation of Dr. Ye Wang - Selected advances in audio compression and compressed domain processing, comprehensive overview of internet and mobile communication codecs and new methods for improvement.

Doom9 - Besides this forum for audio codecs there are others for container formats and video encoding in general with FAQs.
Meta Description: [ Everything around audio de/encoding ]

EE Times - Meeting MPEG-4 advanced audio coding requirements, knowledgeable article summarizing the most important properties of AAC for hardware playback.
Meta Description: [ EE Times is the online source of global news for the creators of technology. ]

Everwicked.com - Comprehensive guides about DivX, XviD and MPEG4IP, a forum and other resources about digital audio/video coding and streaming.

Faac.sourceforge.net - The old Audiocoding.com forum is still available providing valuable content like FAAC compiling issues with its search tool.

Facial Animation - ATT Labs develops a computer human interface using 2D and 3D talking head-and-shoulder models driven by a Text-To-Speech synthesizer (TTS).
Meta Description: [ AT&T develops a new computer human interface using 2D and 3D talking head-and-shoulder models. The model is driven by a text-to-speech synthyesizer like FlexTalk, Festival or NextGen. We develop personalized models and avatars capable of exhibiting emotions. Potential applications are virtual sal... ]

Fraunhofer IIS - Information about the different parts of MPEG-4 Natural or General Audio (GA) from one of the inventors of these formats, see also their page about MPEG-2 AAC.
Meta Description: [ This page offers technical information about the latest audio coding scheme in the MPEG family: MPEG-4 Audio. ]

Hydrogen Audio - Forum about audio coding in general with two separate boards for AAC.

Hydrogen Audio - Active forum topics in AAC - General and AAC - Tech as well as in MPEG4 Discussion.

IBM Composite Media Group - Overview of their implementation and contribution to the MPEG-4 standard, especially for the Systems part.
Meta Description: [ IBM Research: IBM MPEG-4 Technologies ]

Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards - Book by Marina Bosi and Richard E. Goldberg.
Meta Description: [ Buy academic journals, books and online media at Springer. Choose from thousands of scientific, technology medical and business titles and view our range of services for authors, booksellers and librarians. ]

ISO/IEC - Publicly available standards from the International Organization for Standardization including MPEG-4 with 14496-5 containing the Audio, Visual and Systems parts.

Machine Listening - Reading list for an MIT seminar, most of the mentioned publications are directly available on their web server or linked to Amazon's book section.

Mayah - Hard- and software company for professional broadcasting products with AAC/MP4 support.
Meta Description: [ MAYAH is a development and sales organization for high quality broadcast and telecommunication products, such as Audio and Audio-Video Codecs, Encoders, Decoders. ]

Mobiledia - Reviews, articles and forum discussions about cell phones capable of AAC/MP4/3GP playback (also called iTunes format sometimes, use the site search).
Meta Description: [ Read the latest cell phone reviews and news, research cell phone specs, and participate in active discussion forums. ]

MP4-SA Developer Tools - John Lazarro and John Wawrzynek from the CS Division, UC Berkeley provide tutorials, downloads, manuals and links related to the Structured Audio format.
Meta Description: [ MPEG-4 Structured Audio tools and documentation for content creators and application developers, featuring the Sfront MP4-to-C translator. Tools for audio scripting, audio signal processing, digital signal processing, DSP, DSP education. ]

Mp4-tech - The web archive of the public MPEG Industry Forum mailing list with many knowledgeable participants from companies like FhG, Apple and Microsoft.

404 MPEG Audio - Official site of this MPEG subgroup with FAQs for the different standards, publicly available reference documents and software.

MPEG LA - Patent pool administrator for the MPEG-4 Systems part of the standard including the MP4 file format.

MPEG-4 Structured Audio - Technical information and developer resources from the Machine Listening Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, the official homepage for this format maintained by Eric Scheirer.
Meta Description: [ MPEG-4 Structured Audio homepage: SAOL, SASBF, SASL, AudioBIFS, and more ]

MPEG4.net - Resource for news, information and products about MPEG-4, H.264, Windows Media, High-Definition, Streaming Media and related technologies.
Meta Description: [ MPEG4.net is the source for all the latest news, information and products relating to MPEG-4, H.264, Windows Media, High-Definition, Streaming Media and related technologies. ]

MPEG4.net Events - Upcoming MPEG-4 and Streaming Media related calendar of events.

MPEG4.net News - The latest headlines about MPEG-4, Windows Media, Streaming Media and related technologies.

MPEG4.net Press releases - Announcements of new products from companies or events from organizations related to MPEG-4 and other technologies.

MPEG4.net Resources - New sources of information like web sites, documentation or tests for MPEG-4 and related technologies.

Nokia developer forum - Platform to support the implementation of their software SDKs including AAC/MP4.
Meta Description: [ Developer Discussion Boards for Nokia Mobile Phones ]

Principles of digital audio - Book by Ken C. Pohlmann.
Meta Description: [ Amazon.com: Principles of Digital Audio: Books: Ken C. Pohlmann by Ken C. Pohlmann ]

QuickTime development - Apple offers technical FAQs, knowledge base and publicly available documentation files including the MOV file format.

Roberto's listening tests - Provides public group comparisons of several AAC codecs and other formats at different bitrates.

Ross Bencina Structured Audio - The writer of AudioMulch, free soundsynthesis software, offers a SAOL/SASL reference guide and decoder resources.
Meta Description: [ AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio. Real-time sound synthesis and audio processing software usable as an audio effects processor or a complete music composition and performance system. AudioMulch contains many audio synthesis and processing modules and may also be used to host VST plugins. ]

Speech Synthesis Examples - Many TTS demos in several languages from different systems with links to their homepages.
Meta Description: [ To compare the quality of different speech synthesis systems I have collected speech data from most currently available systems. Since I think this might be useful for others as well you can find this collection now on the web. ]

Structured Audio Open Group - The main goal of the SAOG was to implement Structured Audio (SA) in open source applications offering a portal for their users with forum and downloads of samples and software.

Telos Systems - Hardware manufacturer of the Zephyr ISDN codecs for radio and television broadcasters providing articles and brochures about different AAC implementations.

Text-To-Speech Synthesis - Bell Labs' / Lucent Technologies multi-lingual TTS demos and introduction to this coding method.
Meta Description: [ Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Text-to-Speech Synthesis Demo Introduction ]

Tuner2 - List of internet radio stations using aacPlus for their low bitrate streams, among them SomaFM.com and Boomer Radio.
Meta Description: [ FW MX 2004 DW MX 2004 HTML ]

Via Licensing - Patent pool administrator for AAC with FAQs and overviews of royalty fees for commercial implementations.