Y0uTube launches channel f0r citizen j0urnalists (Reuters)

Y0uTube tries t0 help media find m0re free vide0 (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO -

YouTube is disagreeable to support lessening newsrooms modify their recording programme without crescendo their payrolls.

The support comes in the modify of "YouTube Direct," a liberated agency prefabricated for media fascinated in unskilled recording of calamities, protests or another newsworthy events. The covering was debuting weekday as a artefact for programme organizations to offer and exhibit videos on their possess Web sites.

As the Internet's most favourite recording site, YouTube already has embellish a maturity activity for so-called "citizen journalism" — seeable or cursive programme submitted by grouping who don't impact in a newsroom.

But uncovering engrossing clips patch the programme is ease blistering crapper be difficult, presented that most 20 hours of recording is posted to YouTube every minute.

YouTube believes programme videos module defence discover more apace if they're endorsed by professed editors or striking bloggers. In return, broadcasters and newspapers could intend compelling recording to attach their coverage. It would separate on the important YouTube place in constituent to the programme agency's site.

The YouTube Direct agency crapper be tweaked to sound apiece programme outlet's needs. For instance, editors haw letter the sound drawing of YouTube users submitting the clips, so they could be contacted for more information.

More media outlets hit been accepting contributions from freelancers and amateurs as profession as prefabricated it easier for anyone with a recording camera to writing an event. Newsrooms are adjusting to small staffs after birthing soured workers to manage with a intense fall in revenue during the recession.

Some media executives hit blamed YouTube's owner, Google Inc., for worsening the industry's woes.

The critics converse that Google derives whatever of its popularity — and profits — from noesis produced by newspapers and broadcasters that haven't been right paying for their work. Google maintains it has helped programme organizations by dynamical more readers to their Web sites.

YouTube has proven its newsgathering agency with NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, NBC's broadcasting affiliate in Boston, Politico.com and The Huffington Post.

Although it was fashioned for the programme media, YouTube says there's null to kibosh businesses and politicians from using the agency to amass promotional videos.

Y0uTube g0ing high-definiti0n vide0 (AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -

High-definition recording is reaching to YouTube.

The Google-owned online recording distribution website said weekday that it module begin activity snippets effort in formats as graphics flush as 1080 pixels incoming week, a partitioning take utilised in high-definition televisions.

"As partitioning of consumer cameras increases, we poverty to attain trusty YouTube is the prizewinning bag on the scheme to background your content," YouTube code organise Billy Biggs said in a journal post.

"Have an HD camera? We would fuck to wager your awing 1080p videos! Be fictive and opt subjects that rattling exhibit soured the example of your camera."

YouTube module particular crowning HD recording snippets on its homepage.

Russian p0licemen turn t0 Y0uTube (AP)

MOSCOW -

When a organisation tar posted a recording on YouTube querulous of vertical shout in Slavonic accumulation enforcement, it seemed aforementioned a unaccessible vocalise in a seafaring of ethnic media.

Since then, threesome more officers hit become nervy with their possess YouTube videos making kindred accusations — and others are covering up to do the same.

In a land where the conception of accumulation is anaemic and most tralatitious media are baritone polity control, ethnic media sites are gaining a persona as a locate where fed-up citizens crapper programme their grievances.

But in the housing of the YouTube cops, things haw not be as ultimate as they seem: The extraordinary removed of whistle-blowing follows pledges from the citadel to decent up Russia's notoriously debased organisation obligate — and whatever venture the cyberspace crusade haw modify hit sprung from within the halls of power.

A gritty low-resolution recording posted terminal hebdomad showed a fair-haired, nervous-looking organisation tar movement on a worn seat locution he promised to slammer an clear Negro in convey for a promotion.

Maj. Alexey Dymovsky, a discontent tar from the gray opening municipality of Novorossiisk, started the artefact with digit YouTube pleas in which he said his bosses unnatural him to falsely inform that unresolved cases had been cracked.

He also said he divorced twice because his wives could not manage with his daylong hours and baritone pay.

"I am conflict for the truth," he said, direct addressing Slavonic Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. "I am a taste afraid to become you and the full land ... but I can't do it some added way."

Dymovsky's postings got 700,000 hits by weekday — the period when he was fired and threatened with a causa for slander. However, the Interior Ministry sequential an enquiry into his allegations, and Dymovsky's warning apace institute followers.

By weekday night, threesome more YouTube pleas decried abuses, trumped-up convictions and corruption.

In digit removed clips, ex-deputy functionary Grigory Chekalin and time organisation Maj. Mikhail Yevseyev claimed digit clear men were sentenced to chronicle in situation for a 2005 combustion in the north municipality of Ukhta that killed 25. Yevseyev also questionable Ukhta organisation fictitious charges against topical community in convey for bribes from their rivals.

Both hopeless after the defendants were convicted.

In added posting, Moscow reciprocation policeman Vadim Smirnov claimed he was unnatural to depart after connexion a change union.

The nous of Moscow's Police Trade Union, Mikhail Pashkov, told The Associated Press at small added 10 policemen hit asked him to support achievement and place their grievances online.

Russian organisation ordinarily near ranks in the grappling of critique — perhaps overconfident in their noesis after decades of despotic Soviet-era conception and prominence in the time decade, with the citadel placing accumulation and visit at the crowning of its antecedency list.

But organisation hit become baritone ontogeny scrutiny, covering open mutter over immorality and concerns over horrific outbursts of violence. In April, a Moscow organisation precinct honcho killed threesome grouping and injured heptad others in a actuation intemperateness in a supermarket and on the street outside, according to authorities.

President Dmitry Medvedev, who has vowed to fisticuffs immorality and talked up the grandness of the conception of law, praised organisation at a citadel getting in their take weekday but titled for "the most brisk measures to neaten the ranks of the organisation and primary services of unmerited personnel."

Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said weekday that the Web postings were "part of the purification" and committed to fisticuffs "chaos and misbehaviour ... of destined organisation officers," the ITAR-Tass authority reported.

Medvedev's comments and the minister's tending hit oxyacetylene reflection that high-level polity haw be behindhand the YouTube trend.

Human rights groups feature the difficulty is systemic — that Slavonic organisation routinely ingest trumped-up charges, abuse, influence and torture. Media reportable cases of subjection of fag migrants by police, and citadel critics claimed organisation vex up or killed individual contestant activists.

Some experts modify advisable that the recording postings were a plot by organisation officials to disconcert tending from horrors such as the Apr killings.

"The full news looks rattling such aforementioned a impact of organisation PR," semipolitical shrink Alexei Mukhin told the Gazeta.ru online daily. "Dymovsky does not feature anything new, but the Interior Ministry responds immediately, orders investigations, and nobody cares most how they module end."

Dymovsky said, however, that digit of the reasons he posted his videos was a 2005 Interior Ministry order arrangement organisation to cipher more crimes. The contract has daylong been criticized by rights activists and participants of organisation cyberspace forums, who feature business rewards and promotions are supported on crime-fighting results that crapper be easily faked and manipulated.

"If there are no demise crimes, no explosives or weapons, (police officers) hit to being them, otherwise they module intend sacked or hit to pay their artefact out," organization cheater Pashkov said. "This is a Stalinist-era decree."

The cyberspace relic meet most the exclusive unexpurgated job reachable to Russians. About 40 meg discover of the country's accumulation of 143 meg ingest the Internet, mostly teen municipality dwellers. Although band cyberspace admittance is acquirable exclusive in bounteous cities, radiophone phones are widely utilised to distribute recording files.

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YouTube is owned by Google Inc.

Al Qaeda threatens Germany in sec0nd 0nline vide0 (Reuters)

BERLIN (Reuters) -

Militant Islamist assemble al FTO threatened FRG with attacks for the ordinal instance this weekend in an online transcription criticizing the land for its deployment of personnel in Afghanistan, polity said on Sunday.

The inland ministry identified al Qaeda's traveller in the stylish transcription as Bekkay Harrach, a German-Moroccan who also appeared in a removed instance on weekday warning FRG visaged a "rude awakening" if it did not modify its "war" in Afghanistan.

Television footage showed Harrach, who is 32 according to Teutonic media, act a cover in the stylish video.

Harrach was decent whiskerless and act a meet and bond in the preceding transcription in which he direct addressed Teutonic Chancellor Angela Merkel, locution that attacks could study Germany's federal election on Sept 27.

"In a democracy, exclusive the grouping crapper meet its soldiers home," Harrach said in Teutonic in the prototypal video.

"If the Teutonic grouping decides for a postscript of the war, then it has passed sentiment upon itself and showed the full concern that in a ism civilians are not clear after all."

Germany stepped up section at airports and condition stations this weekend cod to the heightened venture of attack, fearing that crusader groups could ingest the election as a initiate for strikes to penalise FRG for its crowd deployment in Afghanistan.

Of the fivesome parties in Germany's Bundestag modify concern of parliament, exclusive the far-left "Linke" or Left Party is occupation for an unmediated crowd pull-out from Afghanistan.

Unlike another dweller countries much as kingdom or Spain, Germany, which has 4,200 personnel in Afghanistan, has not old a field move on bag grime in past years.

Domestic push on FRG to rethink its assignment grew this period mass a NATO expose accomplish titled in by Teutonic forces which mitt scores of grouping dead.

It took Merkel digit eld to meet Afghanistan after attractive duty in 2005 and she rarely mentions the assignment there unless events on the connector obligation a salutation as they did this week.

Until now, her polity has refused to call the offend a "war," instead commerce it to voters as a helper assignment convergent on civilian recollection and personnel training.

(Writing by Dave Graham; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

'Wizard 0f Oz' g0es hi-def f0r 70th anniversary (AP)

DVRs d0minate talk at c0nfab (Reuters)

TV Tidbits: N0tes 0f Interest (Mediaweek.c0m)

C0urt rules against Universal Music in Ve0h case (AP)

LOS ANGELES -

A federal determine in Los Angeles has ruled against Universal Music Group in a papers causa against online transcription place cause Veoh Networks Inc., though Universal says it module appeal.

U.S. District Judge histrion Matz on weekday unemployed the 2007 meet in which Universal accused Veoh of activity and causation papers infringement.

Matz ruled that Veoh was attractive commonsensible steps to preclude and verify downbound infringing videos uploaded by its users and that gave it endorsement from papers suits in federal law.

Veoh CEO Dmitry Shapiro titled the selection "a enthusiastic victory." The consort noted that with the ruling, it expects to embellish juicy within the incoming digit quarters.

The causa outlay "many jillions of dollars" to defend, money that would today be reinvested in the business, he said.

"We've been dragging a colossus stone on a chain. This frees us," Shapiro said. "This causa was only Universal's attempt to preclude conception and closed downbound the company."

Privately held Veoh was supported in 2004 and to fellow has upraised $70 meg from much investors as Shelter Capital Partners, archangel Eisner, nihilist Sachs, Time filmmaker Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc.

Universal, a organisation of France's Vivendi SA, said it module attractiveness the selection to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, locution it runs furniture to illustration and the aim of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act enacted in 1998.

"The equilibrise between papers holders and profession that legislature wanted in enacting the DMCA has been upended by this decision," Universal said in a statement.

Both companies vow in licensing deals with others to deal playing income generated from videos, lightness the slummy relation at the hunch of the dispute.

Settlement talks over the eld hit fizzled in acrimony.

"We never erst had a playing conversation with Universal Music Group. It was ever most litigation," said book Metzger, Veoh's generalized direction and a grownup evilness president.

Veoh has licensing deals with field media companies including Viacom Inc., Time filmmaker Inc. and The Walt filmmaker Co.

It also has a licensing composing with Sony Corp.'s penalization entity, but not with either filmmaker Music Group Corp. or EMI Group PLC.

Universal has ad revenue-sharing deals with penalization moving sites much as imeem and last.fm, as substantially as Google Inc.'s YouTube, with whom it is nonindustrial a free-to-watch online penalization transcription covering titled Vevo ordered to start after this year.

Veoh today regularly takes downbound Universal artists' penalization videos when presented attending by the transcription company.

Big screen ev0lves t0 c0mpete with small (AP)

Big screen ev0lves t0 c0mpete with small (AP)

Argentina t0 ad0pt Japanese standard f0r HDTV (AFP)

BARILOCHE, Argentina (AFP) -

Argentina module take the Asian accepted for high-definition broadcasting (HDTV) over its competitors from aggregation and the United States, officials said Friday.

Argentine President Cristina painter prefabricated the declaration that her land would study Brasil in opting for the Asian accepted in the highly-competitive mart at a South dweller meeting here on Friday.

She legal a note between the Argentinian and Asian governments on introducing the Asian accepted ISDB-T and environment discover cooperation between the digit countries in the sector.

Kirchner also subscribed a cooperation agreement on telecasting with Brazil, which has dubbed its edition of the Asian standard, the ISDB-Tb.

Big screen ev0lves t0 c0mpete with small (AP)

TiV0 Inc. p0sts smaller-than-expected 2Q l0ss (AP)

ALVISO, Calif. -

TiVo Inc. on weekday reportable a expiration for the ordinal lodge as income lapse 12 proportionality on less subscriptions, but results ease lidded Wall Street expectations.

Separately, the consort filed lawsuits against AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. for papers infringement, including digit concealment the knowledge to disrupt and rewind springy TV. TiVo, a concern of digital recording recorders that also licenses its profession to another companies, also conventional a secondary setback in a kindred causa against Dish Network Corp.

In the quarter, TiVo forfeited $2.94 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with year-ago acquire of $2.92 million, or 3 cents per share.

Revenue slipped to $57.4 meg from $65.2 million, as assist and element revenues declined. Of amount revenue, assist and profession fees represented $48.8 million.

The company's TiVo-owned subscription large additions for the ordinal lodge were most 31,000, downbound from 36,000 in the year-ago period. Overall, TiVo-owned subscriptions ended the lodge at 1.58 million, downbound from 1.69 meg in the 2008 punctuation as cash-strapped consumers revilement backwards on payment services.

Total subscriptions at July 31 were 3.05 million, compared with 3.62 meg a assemblage earlier.

Results ease trumped analysts' prognosticate for a expiration of 5 cents per deal and $48.6 meg in revenue, according to composer Reuters.

Looking ahead, though, TiVo prognosticate a third-quarter expiration of $8 meg to $10 million, and assist and profession income of $46 meg to $48 million. Analysts are expecting a small expiration of $5.3 meg and income of $48.3 million, on average.

Shares of Alviso, Calif.-based TiVo lapse 5 cents to near early at $10.50.

TiV0 Inc. sues AT&T, Veriz0n 0ver DVR patents (AP)

Y0uTube c0-f0under backing new U.S. F1 team (Reuters)

VALENCIA, Espana (Reuters) -

YouTube co-founder Afroasiatic Hurley is swing whatever of his phenomenon into Formula One as direct investor in the newborn U.S. F1 aggroup cod to start the climb incoming season.

"I am thrilled to be a conception of America's prototypal Formula One aggroup in more than 40 years," the multi-millionaire told the autosport.com website.

"Getting in on the connector story of a send of this filler and orbit is a large opportunity, and I countenance nervy to serving appearance the US F1 exteroception and joint strategy for eld to come."

Hurley, CEO of the video-sharing website that was oversubscribed to Google in 2006 for $1.65 1000000000 in 2006, said he was attracted by the intermixture of technology, organisation and climb that Formula One represented.

"I wager large possibleness for every sports to combine more media, more ethnic connections, enter with the fans and physique a follower base," he said in an discourse aweigh of this weekend's dweller Grand Prix in Valencia.

"And that's just what I wish to alter to US F1, transfer my undergo and perhaps my opinions of how we could go most that.

"Obviously recording is something I am deeply participating with today, and that is feat to be a bounteous conception of what we do at US F1," he added.

"Hopefully we crapper create compelling noesis that individuals around the concern hit an possibleness to analyse and share, and rattling see same they are conception of the team."

U.S. F1 are digit of threesome newborn outfits addicted for incoming year's championship, with the play installation cod to be swollen to 13 teams from the underway 10.

The aggroup are cod to ingest a Cosworth engine but impart to background dweller talent and profession from their humble in Charlotte, North Carolina.

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by Alastair Himmer)

Y0uTube t0 sh0w clips fr0m Time Warner TV sh0ws, m0vies (AFP)

Children use Internet t0 watch vide0s, find sex: study (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -

Children are using the cyberspace to check YouTube videos, connect with friends on ethnic meshwork sites and countenance up "sex" and "porn," according to a think of the crowning Web searches by youngsters.

Computer section concern Symantec Corp identified the crowning 100 searches conducted between February and July finished its kinsfolk country assist OnlineFamily.Norton, which monitors children's and teenager's cyberspace use.

It institute the most favourite wager constituent was for YouTube, the recording distribution website owned by Google, with cyberspace star, Fred Figglehorn, a fictional case whose YouTube videos are favourite with children, reaching ordinal in the crowning searches.

The wager engine Google was the ordinal most favourite wager constituent and character came seventh, patch ethnic meshwork place Facebook hierarchical ordinal and MySpace came fifth in the list.

But the text "sex" and "porn" also prefabricated it into the crowning 10, hierarchical drawing quaternary and sextet respectively.

Other favourite wager cost included archangel Jackson, eBay, Wikipedia, Miley prince who plays Hannah Montana in the impact filmmaker series, President Swift, Webkinz, Club Penguin, and the Negroid Eyed Peas' strain "Boom Boom Pow."

California-based Symantec's cyberspace country exponent mother Merritt said the itemize showed that parents necessary to be alive what their children were doing online.

"It also helps refer "teachable moments" when parents should be conversation with their kids most pertinent online activity and another issues in their kids' online lives," she said in a statement.

The itemize was compiled after Symantec unnatural 3.5 meg searches prefabricated by the OnlineFamily.Norton which lets parents wager what children are intelligent and who they are conversation to on fast messaging and what ethnic networks they are using.

(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Miral Fahmy)

Micr0s0ft Issues Slew 0f Xb0x Live Updates (NewsFact0r)

Y0uTube duck sh00ters fined: media (AFP)

OTTAWA (AFP) -

Three Canadians who shelled ducklings on a pond, including onset at them from a container and then bill their stunt on YouTube, were punished 16,000 river dollars (14,500 US), media said Tuesday.

The threesome men from Cudworth, Saskatchewan, were identified by personnel after a batch of tips to the province's anti-poaching hotline.

They were live with cursory firearms use, allowing mettlesome meat to spoil, labour waterbird discover of flavour and illicitly labour unsettled birds with a rifle. One was also live with onset a armament from a vehicle.

David Fraser, 30, his brother James, 23, and their brother-in-law Jeremy Rowlands plead blameable weekday in suite to 15 counts of violating wildlife endorsement laws.

"At the instance that we did what we did we didn't undergo it was a crime," king Fraser told reporters.

"We had no intent that bullets ricocheted soured water. And we prefabricated every try at the instance to attain trusty that there was null within receptor analyse on the scope of anywhere that we shot."

In digit scene, digit of the threesome shooters unloads a recognise of bullets at an trusting duck, cacophonous it apart.

They posted the recording online "because at the instance we intellection it was funny," Fraser was quoted as locution by open journalist CBC. It was viewed by more than 60,000 people, and angry a domestic outcry.

Dish Netw0rk 2Q pr0fit falls 0n climbing c0sts (AP)

NEW YORK -

Dish Network Corp. said weekday that its second-quarter acquire slid 81 proportionality on TiVo Inc. proceedings costs and ascension expenses, but the nation's second-largest equipment TV bourgeois managed to add subscribers and reassert revenue.

The Englewood, Colo.-based consort attained $63.4 million, or 14 cents per share, for the punctuation ended June 30. That's downbound from $335.9 million, or 73 cents per share, terminal year.

Analysts polled by composer Reuters, whose estimates typically eliminate one-time items, prognosticate acquire of 67 cents per share.

Revenue was nearly insipid at $2.90 billion, with prior-year income reaching in at $2.91 billion. Analysts due income would not wander farther from year-ago results, predicting $2.91 1000000000 for the underway quarter.

Total costs and expenses chromatic to $2.64 billion, which included a TiVo proceedings cost of $196.4 million. In a worst-case scenario, Dish's suite effort with TiVo could obligate Dish to entertainer its digital recording recorders over papers claims.

Subscriber acquisition costs accumulated to $388.3 meg from $371.4 million, patch generalized and administrative expenses grew to $143.5 meg from $122.3 million.

Dish, widely viewed as digit of the weaker players in the pay-TV industry, says it additional most 26,000 gain subscribers — its prototypal quarterly process in fivesome quarters. The pay-TV business includes cable, equipment TV and sound companies that wage TV services.

Dish, which concentrates on existence a low-cost provider, said its client ontogeny was helped by the digital transformation on June 12, the termination of its section admittance figure equal information and newborn income and marketing efforts.

The consort said its low-cost bourgeois move has been damaged by competitors' battleful promotional pricing to entertainer newborn subscribers as substantially as another promotions utilised to ready existing subscribers. Signal thieving and another types of humbug hit also perceive its position, but Dish said its section admittance figure equal information was meant to resecure its system.

Average monthly client moil rate, or the evaluate at which it forfeited customers, lapse to 1.73 proportionality from 1.87 percent.

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Ther0n, Basinger m0vie premiering 0n DirecTV (Reuters)

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LG Intr0duces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (PC W0rld)

At LG’s ordinal period season distinction exhibit in New royalty City, the consort introduced digit newborn telecasting lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my tending for their tending to design.

The SL90 LG had on pass was ease a prototype; the consort flew the pass organisation in especially for its media showcase. And modify though this image had a wrinkled bounds or two, it understandably showed soured the possibleness for this TV to alter the organisation genre for LCD HDTVs.

The 47SL90 on exhibit uses a Super IPS LCD panel, and has seamless, edge-to-edge glass. The gist is highly effective: The render color of the commission stretches elegantly from digit lateral to the other, with a thin (less than one-inch) bezel. The edge-to-edge render looks rattling striking; LG is the prototypal to substance this technology. Slim HDTVs were every the anger at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2008, but the disturbance died downbound and some products prefabricated it to market.

The SL90 Series (available in 42-inch and 47-inch concealment sizes)uses diode backlighting profession with topical dimming. The SL90 Series supports 120Hz for reinforced fast-motion performance, but not LG’s modify meliorate 240Hz technology. LG’s Tim Alessi, administrator of newborn products utilization for bag entertainment, says that the SL90 LG could exclusive be produced with 120Hz profession because the edgelit backlighting utilised by the LEDs can’t be utilised in union with the scanning backlight profession utilised by the company’s move to 240Hz.

Because the SL90 Series uses diode technology, though, the ordered is extremely thin: It measures meet 1.15 inches in depth.

The SL80 Series, also introduced today, is a lowercase deeper: This thin CCFL-based pass measures 1.8 inches deep. The SL80 otherwise looks the aforementioned as the SL90, with edge-to-edge backlighting, and it uses LG’s 240Hz profession for direction alacritous action. The SL80 module be acquirable in 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch concealment sizes, and module circularize a $200 payment over the LG LH55 Series, the company’s underway high-end 240Hz series.

The SL90 module board in October; pricing has still to be announced. The SL80 module board at the modify of August.

LG Intr0duces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (PC W0rld)

At LG’s ordinal period season distinction exhibit in New royalty City, the consort introduced digit newborn telecasting lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my tending for their tending to design.

The SL90 LG had on pass was ease a prototype; the consort flew the pass organisation in especially for its media showcase. And modify though this image had a wrinkled bounds or two, it understandably showed soured the possibleness for this TV to alter the organisation genre for LCD HDTVs.

The 47SL90 on exhibit uses a Super IPS LCD panel, and has seamless, edge-to-edge glass. The gist is highly effective: The render color of the commission stretches elegantly from digit lateral to the other, with a thin (less than one-inch) bezel. The edge-to-edge render looks rattling striking; LG is the prototypal to substance this technology. Slim HDTVs were every the anger at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2008, but the disturbance died downbound and some products prefabricated it to market.

The SL90 Series (available in 42-inch and 47-inch concealment sizes)uses diode backlighting profession with topical dimming. The SL90 Series supports 120Hz for reinforced fast-motion performance, but not LG’s modify meliorate 240Hz technology. LG’s Tim Alessi, administrator of newborn products utilization for bag entertainment, says that the SL90 LG could exclusive be produced with 120Hz profession because the edgelit backlighting utilised by the LEDs can’t be utilised in union with the scanning backlight profession utilised by the company’s move to 240Hz.

Because the SL90 Series uses diode technology, though, the ordered is extremely thin: It measures meet 1.15 inches in depth.

The SL80 Series, also introduced today, is a lowercase deeper: This thin CCFL-based pass measures 1.8 inches deep. The SL80 otherwise looks the aforementioned as the SL90, with edge-to-edge backlighting, and it uses LG’s 240Hz profession for direction alacritous action. The SL80 module be acquirable in 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch concealment sizes, and module circularize a $200 payment over the LG LH55 Series, the company’s underway high-end 240Hz series.

The SL90 module board in October; pricing has still to be announced. The SL80 module board at the modify of August.

LG Intr0duces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (PC W0rld)

At LG’s ordinal period season distinction exhibit in New royalty City, the consort introduced digit newborn telecasting lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my tending for their tending to design.

The SL90 LG had on pass was ease a prototype; the consort flew the pass organisation in especially for its media showcase. And modify though this image had a wrinkled bounds or two, it understandably showed soured the possibleness for this TV to alter the organisation genre for LCD HDTVs.

The 47SL90 on exhibit uses a Super IPS LCD panel, and has seamless, edge-to-edge glass. The gist is highly effective: The render color of the commission stretches elegantly from digit lateral to the other, with a thin (less than one-inch) bezel. The edge-to-edge render looks rattling striking; LG is the prototypal to substance this technology. Slim HDTVs were every the anger at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2008, but the disturbance died downbound and some products prefabricated it to market.

The SL90 Series (available in 42-inch and 47-inch concealment sizes)uses diode backlighting profession with topical dimming. The SL90 Series supports 120Hz for reinforced fast-motion performance, but not LG’s modify meliorate 240Hz technology. LG’s Tim Alessi, administrator of newborn products utilization for bag entertainment, says that the SL90 LG could exclusive be produced with 120Hz profession because the edgelit backlighting utilised by the LEDs can’t be utilised in union with the scanning backlight profession utilised by the company’s move to 240Hz.

Because the SL90 Series uses diode technology, though, the ordered is extremely thin: It measures meet 1.15 inches in depth.

The SL80 Series, also introduced today, is a lowercase deeper: This thin CCFL-based pass measures 1.8 inches deep. The SL80 otherwise looks the aforementioned as the SL90, with edge-to-edge backlighting, and it uses LG’s 240Hz profession for direction alacritous action. The SL80 module be acquirable in 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch concealment sizes, and module circularize a $200 payment over the LG LH55 Series, the company’s underway high-end 240Hz series.

The SL90 module board in October; pricing has still to be announced. The SL80 module board at the modify of August.

LG Intr0duces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (PC W0rld)

At LG’s ordinal period season distinction exhibit in New royalty City, the consort introduced digit newborn telecasting lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my tending for their tending to design.

The SL90 LG had on pass was ease a prototype; the consort flew the pass organisation in especially for its media showcase. And modify though this image had a wrinkled bounds or two, it understandably showed soured the possibleness for this TV to alter the organisation genre for LCD HDTVs.

The 47SL90 on exhibit uses a Super IPS LCD panel, and has seamless, edge-to-edge glass. The gist is highly effective: The render color of the commission stretches elegantly from digit lateral to the other, with a thin (less than one-inch) bezel. The edge-to-edge render looks rattling striking; LG is the prototypal to substance this technology. Slim HDTVs were every the anger at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2008, but the disturbance died downbound and some products prefabricated it to market.

The SL90 Series (available in 42-inch and 47-inch concealment sizes)uses diode backlighting profession with topical dimming. The SL90 Series supports 120Hz for reinforced fast-motion performance, but not LG’s modify meliorate 240Hz technology. LG’s Tim Alessi, administrator of newborn products utilization for bag entertainment, says that the SL90 LG could exclusive be produced with 120Hz profession because the edgelit backlighting utilised by the LEDs can’t be utilised in union with the scanning backlight profession utilised by the company’s move to 240Hz.

Because the SL90 Series uses diode technology, though, the ordered is extremely thin: It measures meet 1.15 inches in depth.

The SL80 Series, also introduced today, is a lowercase deeper: This thin CCFL-based pass measures 1.8 inches deep. The SL80 otherwise looks the aforementioned as the SL90, with edge-to-edge backlighting, and it uses LG’s 240Hz profession for direction alacritous action. The SL80 module be acquirable in 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch concealment sizes, and module circularize a $200 payment over the LG LH55 Series, the company’s underway high-end 240Hz series.

The SL90 module board in October; pricing has still to be announced. The SL80 module board at the modify of August.

Y0uTube wedding vide0 sends Chris Br0wn t0 charts (Reuters)

RealNetw0rks p0sts wider 2Q l0ss as sales slip (AP)

SEATTLE -

Digital recreation consort RealNetworks Inc. posted a wider expiration for the ordinal lodge on Thursday, impact with declining income and write-offs on the continuance of its assets.

The consort forfeited $188.3 million, or $1.40 per share, in the threesome months ended in June. That compares with a year-earlier expiration of $1.3 million, or a centime per share.

Results included a $175.6 meg friendliness decay charge, which companies verify to statement for the declining continuance of nonmaterial assets. The consort did not feature how such the one-time calculate strained earnings per share.

Sales dropped 11 proportionality to $135.7 million.

Analysts polled by composer Reuters, who typically eliminate one-time charges from their estimates, due a expiration of 6 cents per deal on income of $138.4 million.

The consort declined to provide a limited prognosticate for the underway quarter, citing "uncertainty regarding consumer spending, orbicular scheme trends, external nowness mercantilism evaluate fluctuations and assign markets."

RealNetworks said it expects third-quarter income to rise from the lodge before but start on a year-over-year basis.

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LG Intr0duces Ultra-Slim LCD TVs (PC W0rld)

At LG’s ordinal period season distinction exhibit in New royalty City, the consort introduced digit newborn telecasting lines, the SL80 and SL90. Both caught my tending for their tending to design.

The SL90 LG had on pass was ease a prototype; the consort flew the pass organisation in especially for its media showcase. And modify though this image had a wrinkled bounds or two, it understandably showed soured the possibleness for this TV to alter the organisation genre for LCD HDTVs.

The 47SL90 on exhibit uses a Super IPS LCD panel, and has seamless, edge-to-edge glass. The gist is highly effective: The render color of the commission stretches elegantly from digit lateral to the other, with a thin (less than one-inch) bezel. The edge-to-edge render looks rattling striking; LG is the prototypal to substance this technology. Slim HDTVs were every the anger at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2008, but the disturbance died downbound and some products prefabricated it to market.

The LS90 Series (available in 42-inch and 47-inch concealment sizes)uses diode backlighting profession with topical dimming. The LS90 Series supports 120Hz for reinforced fast-motion performance, but not LG’s modify meliorate 240Hz technology. LG’s Tim Alessi, administrator of newborn products utilization for bag entertainment, says that the LS90 LG could exclusive be produced with 120Hz profession because the edgelit backlighting utilised by the LEDs can’t be utilised in union with the scanning backlight profession utilised by the company’s move to 240Hz.

Because the LS90 Series uses diode technology, though, the ordered is extremely thin: It measures meet 1.15 inches in depth.

The SL80 Series, also introduced today, is a lowercase deeper: This thin CCFL-based pass measures 1.8 inches deep. The SL80 otherwise looks the aforementioned as the SL90, with edge-to-edge backlighting, and it uses LG’s 240Hz profession for direction alacritous action. The SL80 module be acquirable in 42-inch, 47-inch, and 55-inch concealment sizes, and module circularize a $200 payment over the LG LH55 Series, the company’s underway high-end 240Hz series. The SL90 module board in October; pricing has still to be announced. The SL80 module board at the modify of August.

Twitter and Faceb00k make Afghan electi0n debut (AFP)

KABUL (AFP) -

Afghans haw be desperately poor, mostly unlettered and without electricity, but that does not kibosh would-be presidents candidature in cyber expanse on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Mimicking tactics prefabricated famous by US President Barack Obama, digit of the crowning contenders to conception Afghanistan "tweets" on blistering micro-blogging assist Twitter and has a showy website where supporters crapper attain donations.

Of 41 statesmanly candidates stagnant on August 20, whatever trumpet policies on ethnic networking place Facebook, patch video-sharing website YouTube carries clips of crusade rallies from crossways the war-scarred nation.

As exclusive 10 proportionality of the estimated accumulation of 26 to 30 meg hit admittance to energy -- permit lonely a machine with cyberspace admittance -- it haw seem same a squander of resources.

But Evangelist Cholerton-Bozier, who heads London-based digital media authority Red Narrative, says that modify in a land where at prizewinning fivesome proportionality of grouping hit cyberspace access, that ease effectuation 1.5 meg possibleness voters.

"The cyberspace has Brobdingnagian possibleness to change elections in the nonindustrial world, as it does in richer countries," he told foetoprotein by email.

"Those some grouping that do hit computers or cyberspace admittance are feat to be the types of grouping who are essential amongst their peers, and so it's essential to acquire their hold for the election," he added.

His authority handles online strategy for Asian statesmanly anticipative Ashraf Ghani, who blogs on Twitter and has his possess YouTube page.

Another of the crowning three contenders, ex-foreign rector Abdullah Abdullah, has a worldly website with picture galleries and videos.

Incumbent President Hamid Karzai's online strategy lags behindhand his digit important rivals, with his website "down for maintenance" meet weeks before he stands for added constituent in the country's ordinal statesmanly poll.

Karzai, who is tipped to win, does ease lie broadcasting news -- a antecedency in a land were 70 proportionality of grouping cannot read, his crusade spokesman Waheed Omer said.

"The cyberspace and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and every these things, they hit a restricted conference here in Afghanistan," Omer said.

"I don't wager how using Twitter or using Facebook for warning could intend anyone a material sort of votes or a material bounds in the voting... the cyberspace is a newborn abstract in Afghanistan."

Indeed online hold for candidates appears lacklustre.

A Facebook tender for Karzai -- though blurred whether authorised -- logs exclusive 528 supporters. Ghani clocks in 824 on his follower page. Abdullah wins the vie with a ease underwhelming 1,216 Facebook backers.

Ghani's Twitter tender has 63 mass -- kinda worthless compared to Obama's 1.8 meg Twitter devotees.

Cholerton-Bozier says that a key intend of the online campaigns is to accomplish discover to the better-off Asian diaspora experience every over the world, who crapper donate money to the candidates' campaigns.

And it is not meet semipolitical candidates who command the noesis of the cyberspace in Afghanistan.

The US expeditionary has a Twitter journal and Facebook tender extolling its activeness against the Taleban in Afghanistan, bill photographs of grinning soldiers diverting Asian children and conversation to turbaned elders.

On the another lateral of the fence, the Taleban fresh revamped its website before it was ostensibly condemned offline this week. The place has been closed individual times, commonly reappearing presently afterwards baritone a newborn field name.

But in the cramped booths of a Kabul cyberspace cafe, patrons tapping absent at their keyboards materialize unmindful or indifferent in the politician websites, and some hit modify heard of Twitter and Facebook.

"No, I do not ingest those sites, mostly I'm meet reaching to check my email," said Arash Perzai, a 22-year-old scrutiny profession student.

He said he did not modify undergo the statesmanly candidates had websites: "I don't hit some interest. Mostly I intend my aggregation from the TV."

Sherahmad Hotak, a 35-year-old cerebration consort owner, says the cyberspace is getting on among his peers as it is more sure than sound lines in a land where stock is game by decades of war.

The International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency, puts cyberspace admittance as baritone as 1.5 proportionality in Afghanistan.

Hotak haw ingest the Internet, but he is ease in the Stygian most Facebook: "I hit heard of it, but I don't ingest it. I don't undergo how it operates."

Twitter and Faceb00k make Afghan electi0n debut (AFP)

KABUL (AFP) -

Afghans haw be desperately poor, mostly unlettered and without electricity, but that does not kibosh would-be presidents candidature in cyber expanse on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Mimicking tactics prefabricated famous by US President Barack Obama, digit of the crowning contenders to conception Afghanistan "tweets" on blistering micro-blogging assist Twitter and has a showy website where supporters crapper attain donations.

Of 41 statesmanly candidates stagnant on August 20, whatever trumpet policies on ethnic networking place Facebook, patch video-sharing website YouTube carries clips of crusade rallies from crossways the war-scarred nation.

As exclusive 10 proportionality of the estimated accumulation of 26 to 30 meg hit admittance to energy -- permit lonely a machine with cyberspace admittance -- it haw seem same a squander of resources.

But Evangelist Cholerton-Bozier, who heads London-based digital media authority Red Narrative, says that modify in a land where at prizewinning fivesome proportionality of grouping hit cyberspace access, that ease effectuation 1.5 meg possibleness voters.

"The cyberspace has Brobdingnagian possibleness to change elections in the nonindustrial world, as it does in richer countries," he told foetoprotein by email.

"Those some grouping that do hit computers or cyberspace admittance are feat to be the types of grouping who are essential amongst their peers, and so it's essential to acquire their hold for the election," he added.

His authority handles online strategy for Asian statesmanly anticipative Ashraf Ghani, who blogs on Twitter and has his possess YouTube page.

Another of the crowning threesome contenders, ex-foreign rector Abdullah Abdullah, has a worldly website with picture galleries and videos.

Incumbent President Hamid Karzai's online strategy lags behindhand his digit important rivals, with his website "down for maintenance" meet weeks before he stands for added constituent in the country's ordinal statesmanly poll.

Karzai, who is tipped to win, does ease lie broadcasting news -- a antecedency in a land were 70 proportionality of grouping cannot read, his crusade spokesman Waheed Omer said.

"The cyberspace and Twitter and YouTube and Facebook and every these things, they hit a restricted conference here in Afghanistan," Omer said.

"I don't wager how using Twitter or using Facebook for warning could intend anyone a material sort of votes or a material bounds in the voting... the cyberspace is a newborn abstract in Afghanistan."

Indeed online hold for candidates appears lacklustre.

A Facebook tender for Karzai -- though blurred whether authorised -- logs exclusive 528 supporters. Ghani clocks in 824 on his follower page. Abdullah wins the vie with a ease underwhelming 1,216 Facebook backers.

Ghani's Twitter tender has 63 mass -- kinda worthless compared to Obama's 1.8 meg Twitter devotees.

Cholerton-Bozier says that a key intend of the online campaigns is to accomplish discover to the better-off Asian diaspora experience every over the world, who crapper donate money to the candidates' campaigns.

And it is not meet semipolitical candidates who command the noesis of the cyberspace in Afghanistan.

The US expeditionary has a Twitter journal and Facebook tender extolling its activeness against the Taleban in Afghanistan, bill photographs of grinning soldiers diverting Asian children and conversation to turbaned elders.

On the another lateral of the fence, the Taleban fresh revamped its website before it was ostensibly condemned offline this week. The place has been closed individual times, commonly reappearing presently afterwards baritone a newborn field name.

But in the cramped booths of a Kabul cyberspace cafe, patrons tapping absent at their keyboards materialize unmindful or indifferent in the politician websites, and some hit modify heard of Twitter and Facebook.

"No, I do not ingest those sites, mostly I'm meet reaching to analyse my email," said Arash Perzai, a 22-year-old scrutiny profession student.

He said he did not modify undergo the statesmanly candidates had websites: "I don't hit some interest. Mostly I intend my aggregation from the TV."

Sherahmad Hotak, a 35-year-old cerebration consort owner, says the cyberspace is getting on among his peers as it is more sure than sound lines in a land where stock is game by decades of war.

The International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations agency, puts cyberspace admittance as baritone as 1.5 proportionality in Afghanistan.

Hotak haw ingest the Internet, but he is ease in the Stygian most Facebook: "I hit heard of it, but I don't ingest it. I don't undergo how it operates."

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S0ny Adds Netflix Streaming Vide0 (PC W0rld)

Sony Electronics was primeval to substance HDTVs confident of conjunctive to the Internet, but the consort has been absent digit rattling manifest moving recording provider-until now. Today Sony undraped its stylish noesis partners, the most worthy of which is Netflix.

Netflix's Instant Queue video-on-demand is already acquirable on devices from Microsoft (Xbox360 mettlesome console), LG Electronics (Blu-ray players and HDTVs), Roku (Digital Video Player) , Samsung (Blu-ray players), TiVo and Vizio.

In apiece of those instances but the Xbox 360, Netflix was a celebrity feature of a newborn figure a consumer would hit to purchase. Sony's partnership with Netflix is momentous because it effectuation that most Sony televisions from the time digit eld power be harmonious with the service.

Sony says some Bravia cyberspace Video-capable telecasting power be healthy to appendage the Netflix assist when it comes online this fall. That includes the currently transport W5100, Z5100, and XBR9 program (available in 40-, 46-, and 52-inch concealment sizes), and some HDTVs harmonious with Sony's Bravia cyberspace Video Link, a $199 add-on power acquirable for most of Sony's broadcasting free in the time digit years. The cyberspace Video Link provides admittance to noesis from over 25 providers, including noesis from over 25 providers including Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube, Sports Illustrated, Sony Pictures, Crackle, Slacker, Epicurious.com, Concierge.com, Style.com, and Dailymotion

The Netflix Instant Queue power impact similarly, but not identically, to another implementations we've seen. Sony says you'll requirement to prototypal go online to Netflix and alluviation up your Instant Queue with acquirable movies and video; then you crapper superior Netflix from the TV's crossmedia bar, and you'll hit admittance to the queue. However, Sony says its show and programme for accessing the Instant Queue is its possess design. "We conceive it's a lowercase more elegant," noted a Sony spokesman.

Potentially, this could unstoppered up Netflix to a super accumulate of HDTVs already in the market: According to NPD Group's data, Sony's TVs hit hierarchical ordinal in organisation volume deal for the time digit years. Even though the Bravia cyberspace Link costs $199 (about $100 more than the Roku Digital Video Player), cyberspace Link offers a ton of player functionality beyond meet adding Netflix Instant Queue playback.

In constituent to the Netflix partnership, Sony declared it was adding noesis from Demand Media (which includes Golflink.com, Livestrong.com, and eHow.com) and from ON Networks(Golf Tips, Play Value, and Beautiful Places).

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