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Hi Def Voice: Cool Sounding, But Do You Care? - 
Who doesn?t hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you?re willing to pay for a really good one? That?s the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they deliver hi-def telephones. Unlike conventional VoIP phones, hi-def telephones use wideband codecs that encode their signals on audio frequencies from 100 Hz to 7 KHz. Conventional VoIP phones encode ...
- Found: 2008-12-02, 00:21 GMT

Lock Options - 
The two major problems in concurrent programs are data races and deadlocks. The solutions that Bartosz presents here is based on a deadlock-avoidance protocol.
- Found: 7 hours ago

Cellular senescence a double-edged sword - 
Scientists have identified a molecular cause behind the ravages of old age and in doing so have also shown how a natural process for fighting cancer in younger persons can actually promote cancer in older individuals. Cellular senescence, the process by which biological cells stop dividing in response to stress or damage to their DNA, was shown to trigger the secretion of proteins that cause ...
- Found: 7 hours ago

Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry - 
Distinguishing self from non-self is a fundamental biological challenge. Many pathogens exploit the challenge of self discrimination by employing mimicry to subvert key cellular processes including the cell cycle, apoptosis and cytoskeletal dynamics. Other mimics interfere with immunity. Poxviruses encode K3L, a mimic of eIF2?, which is the substrate of protein kinase R (PKR), an important ...
- Found: 2008-11-30, 17:59 GMT

Integrating the Web Into Games - 
Got Game recently announced the launch of an in-game web browser called Rogue, designed for concurrent use with modern games for those who don't care to to switch back and forth. Their aim is to make it so gamers can more easily keep themselves entertained during downtime in games, and to streamline information retrieval without missing any of the action. An anonymous reader writes with related ...
- Found: 2008-12-02, 23:12 GMT

Dutch Live Event Streaming Leader Broadcasts Wimbledon, Auto Racing, Concerts on the Internet with Inles Spinnaker - 
Inlet Technologies , the leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced today that Netherlands-based Cross Media Ventures is employing its Spinnaker TM encoding solution to stream a variety of live events, including the 2008 Wimbledon tennis championships and A1GP Motor Races held in the Netherlands, as well as a classical music concert in Amsterdam.
- Found: 2008-12-02, 16:37 GMT

NTT Electronics Develops Compact, Low-Power H.264/AVC HDTV Codec Module With PCI Express Interface - 
NTT Electronics Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward (hereafter, NTT Electronics), Hiroshi Yoshimura, President, announces a low power, H.264/AVC (*1) HDTV real-time codec module, named PINEA (*2) module that incorporates PCI Express.
- Found: 2008-12-02, 16:52 GMT

BW)(CA-CYPRESS-SEMICONDUCTOR)(CY.NYSE) Cypress Introduces PSoC@ Wireless Environmental Sensing Kit for Atmospheric ... - 
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- Found: 2008-12-02, 13:23 GMT

The Shawshank Redemption (Blu-ray) - 
Warner Bros. // R // December 2, 2008 // Region A The Shawshank Redemption was in an unfortunate position for awhile, it racked up a ton of Oscar nominations, but was the best movie virtually no one saw, in a year when Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction were poured all over multiplex screens.
- Found: 2008-12-02, 12:20 GMT

Wanted (Blu-ray) - 
Recently in another review I wrote, I mentioned that the film flew under my radar when it was in theaters. For some reason this year, I just haven't gotten out to the movie theater as much as I would have liked.
- Found: 2008-12-02, 12:19 GMT