Google Earth 5.0, look at the bottom of the sea

On February 2nd Google presented in Brussels its 3D mapping program Google Earth 5.0, this new version includes new features such as the role Ocean, with the possibility of plunging into the ocean.
that come from sources such as scientific bodies, television channels like BBC or National Geographic, marine researchers and reserve data of high ecological [...]

Ballantines, whiskey labels ecualizador

Ballantines sends the first whiskey with interactive label (chúpate that Network Label)
I recognize it, I am more of mojitos than of whiskey. Nevertheless geek would not matter to me to take a Ballantines me Equalizer so Label with a label that it is illuminated to the rate of music.
This singular initiative has put a graphical [...]

Streaming Audio Ruling a Win-Win

A US District Court in Seattle issued a split decision in the Streambox and RealNetworks fight over digital audio copyrights.
Streambox can continue to sell its Ripper software for converting music files, but is barred from distributing other products that could circumvent the copyright protection in RealNetworks products.
Ripper enables users to convert RealNetworks [...]

Improved forecast?

Broadcasters stabilize DTV signals
Back in May, we covered the digital TV (DTV) world with a look at the state of the industry (”Bleak forecast”) and a hands-on examination on the DTV experience here in the Digital Den (”Finely tuned, or finally tuned?”). We didn’t paint a pretty picture.
Today the situation hasn’t greatly improved. As In-Stat [...]

Continuing codec capers (continued)

The first installment in this project, September’s “Codec capers,” benchmarked various lossless audio-compression algorithms and provided a sneak peek at lossy compression. In that article, I promised that my subsequent December writeup (this one) would include a corresponding analysis for lossy codecs. I didn’t quite accomplish that goal, although as I write, I’m in the [...]

Faster freedom

Ethernet-speed WLANs come home
In “Loosely coupled” (April), I recounted my experience using a wireless LAN (WLAN) in my home. I was bullish on the technology back then and have since become even more convinced that wireless is the one LAN technology that can pervade the home. WLANs are simpler than Ethernet, powerline, or phoneline LANs [...]

Back to the future

The denizens of the Digital Den update past experiments
It’s the holiday season. In an age-old tradition, newspapers and magazines are spewing forth year-end retrospective articles. Looking back over the year that was, they’re reminding you of events you hadn’t yet forgotten and telling you nothing you didn’t already know.
This is not one of those backwards-looking [...]