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Feed Engadget: Sennheiser's new MX W1 earbuds get wireless with Kleer (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Friday January 04, 2008 @06:32PM

It's looking like Sennheiser has a trick or two up its sleeve planned for CES this year -- the audio company is about to drop what appears to be the first commercially available pair of standalone wireless earbuds. The MX W1, as the buds are lovingly known, utilize Kleer technology to transmit audio from their dongle (base station?) to your ears. The same technique was used to poorer effect in RCA's S2501 JetStream DAP / earbud combo, which (virtually) lassoed the buds to the less-than-thrilling player. Sennheiser, on the other hand, provides the MX W1's free of a player and ready to be plugged into your unit of choice -- a huge boon for the marketability of this particular product. It should be noted that these appear to be output only, so those looking for a mobile phone solution will have to look elsewhere. Still, for audio enthusiasts fed up with wires, this is likely music to their ears... er, literally.

[Via PC Magazine]

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Interview with Red Hat's New CEO 129

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 04, 2008 @06:30PM from the impossible-growth-charts-impress-investors dept.

mjasay writes "Red Hat just got a new CEO, Jim Whitehurst, but based on a recent CNET interview with him, he's cut from the same cloth as Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's former CEO. He won't buy an iPod because it won't play Ogg Vorbis files. He refused other CEO roles because he 'must have a mission.' He suggests that taking proprietary shortcuts is a fundamentally wrong way to build a software business. And he believes Red Hat should be doing $5 billion, not $500 million. It's a question of operational excellence and on focusing on its core businesses, according to Whitehurst."

Submission + - Digg Sued Over Solitaire Patent

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04, 2008 @06:00PM

An anonymous reader writes: Back in 2004, Slashdot posted about computer solitaire being patented. It was a ridiculous patent and made it onto the EFF's list of worst patents. However, not much had been heard about that patent until now. It turns out that the patent holder, Sheldon Goldberg, is now using that patent to sue a bunch of different online publications, including Digg, eBaum's World, the NY Times, Cnet and the Washington Post. He's also suing Google, Yahoo and AOL (why not?). Given the attention Slashdot helped give to this patent, it's almost a surprise he's not suing Slashdot as well. Maybe next time!

Google to Compete with Nielsen? 97

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday June 18, 2006 @07:23AM from the google-speculation dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Jason Lee Miller thinks that Nielsen Media Research's ambitious new plan for measuring all types of video audiences could put it into competition with everyone's favorite company: Google. From the article: 'The Mountain View's next potential rival: Nielsen Media Research, the audience measurement company that has held a virtual monopoly in the sector for decades. And it shouldn't be surprising. Google's MO is information collection and research.'"

Comment Re:One factor... (Score 1) 435

by iseppi on Friday January 24, 2003 @01:51PM (#5151976) Attached to: 98% of DNS Queries at the Root Level are Unnecessary

If i'm not mistaken, changing the TTL of a host in a domain other than the root or TL/ccTL Domains should not make any difference to the number of queries to the Root servers or for that matter the TLD or ccTLD servers. The only servers that should notice any increase in traffic is the actual servers hosting the domain.

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