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Comment Newscast? (Score 1) 289

Using the Newscast as the standard is fine in peacetime. Advertisers are gonna love war-time volume skewing though.
I guess we should just be happy they didn't choose Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" show as the standard.

Comment Re:effectiveness in 2011 (Score 1) 271

My Series III TiVo (I'd assume the Premiere, too) regularly aborts playback and jumps to live programming whenever this area gets a EBS (e.g. Tornado Warning) message from Time-Warner cable. The first interruption was freaky (and irritating), but now I really rather appreciate it, since I rarely ever watch live programming.

Android

Submission + - Sony Announces Android-based Tablets

trawg writes: "Sony have officially announced a new line of "Sony tablets". There are two models, both offering 3G/4G and WiFi running Android 3.0 — one is a typical tablet with a 9.4 inch screen and the other is an "unprecedented dual screen" type. Digital content is a big focus: music, books and first generation PlayStation titles will all be available (subject to the usual region restrictions for content)."
Networking

Submission + - Get ready for the high-tech beach (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: "Ocean City, New Jersey is a nice, family-oriented beach that will apparently soon be the high-tech model for seashore lovers and now perhaps geeks everywhere. The city has on its plate a $3 million myriad public services and Internet access using radio-frequency identification chips (RFID) and Wi-Fi wireless technology. A wireless network will let Ocean City expand economic development and control the cost of local services. Wireless allows the City to save on cell phone usage, T-1 lines, and it adds efficiency. The city is looking to replace its ubiquitous but mostly annoying beach tags — which indicate you paid to get on the beach $5 per day, $10 for a week, or $20 for the whole summer — with wristbands that contain an RFID chip. Yet another cool feature of the high-tech beach will be the ability to track beachgoers — an application that is being touted by parents. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17841"

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