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New trial for Czech artists acquitted over faked nuke blast: related news

New trial for Czech artists acquitted over faked nuke blast

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - An appeals court has ordered a retrial for a group of artists who hacked into a national television weather broadcast to show a fake nuclear explosion in the Czech mountains, an official said Monday.

Court orders new trial for Czech artists acquitted over faked nuclear blast

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - An appeals court has ordered a retrial for a group of artists who hacked into a national television weather broadcast to show a fake nuclear explosion in the Czech mountains, an official said Monday.

Court orders new trial for Czech artists acquitted over faked nuclear blast

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - An appeals court has ordered a retrial for a group of artists who hacked into a national television weather broadcast to show a fake nuclear explosion in the Czech mountains, an official said Monday.

Court orders new trial for Czech artists acquitted over faked nuclear blast

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - An appeals court has ordered a retrial for a group of artists who hacked into a national television weather broadcast to show a fake nuclear explosion in the Czech mountains, an official said Monday.

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ROCK BAND CONTINUES TO DEBUT NEW SINGLES IN DOWNLOAD CATALOG WITH NEW RELEASES FROM STAIND, SCARS ON BROADWAY AND THE NEW NO2

ROCK BANDâ„¢ CONTINUES TO DEBUT NEW SINGLES IN DOWNLOAD CATALOG WITH NEW RELEASES FROM STAIND, SCARS ON BROADWAY AND THE NEW NO2

Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York (ACAF NY) To Be Held November 7-10, 2008 at Pier 92

August 20, 2008 - New York, NY - One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary Asian art, the 2nd annual Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York (ACAF NY), will be held from November 7-10, 2008, at Pier 92, 52nd Street and 12th Avenue, in New York City. More than 60 international galleries and non-profit organizations will show a wide range of contemporary work by artists from countries including China, Japan, Korea, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Much of the work, including paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, video and installations, will be on view for the first time in the U.S. The Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York is the only international art fair in New York dedicated exclusively to Asian contemporary art.

New Online Tutorials for Sequence Similarity Search Tools BLAST and FASTA

Seattle (PRWEB) July 17, 2008 -- OpenHelix (http://www.openhelix.com) today announced the availability of new tutorial suites on two highly used sequence similarity search resources: BLAST (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and FASTA (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/fasta33/index.html). BLAST, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at NIH and FASTA, accessed through a web interface at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), are both excellent and widely used tools for finding sequence similarities for proteins and nucleic acids.

Call for Artists: European Media Artists in Residence Exchange 2009

The European Media Art Network provides residencies in England, Germany, Bulgaria and the Netherlands for European artists. With support of the European Union - Culture 2007-2013 programme the newly established European Media Art Network will host 16 European Media Artists in Residence Exchanges within 2008 and 2009 and organise a final exhibition in 2009 in Halle (Saale) additional to individual presentations. Europe based Media Artists in the fields of digital media including internet and computer based art, filmmakers, sound and video artists are invited to apply for a two months artist residency at IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands; Interspace, Sofia, Bulgaria; VIVID, Birmingham England or at Werkleitz Center for Media Arts in Halle, Germany.

New Online Marketplace for Digital Photos, Videos and Catchy Tunes

Over 100 million digital cameras were sold in Europe this year. The average number of photos taken with a digital camera is 500, resulting in 50 billion new photos every year. If only 0,1 % of these were saved, Europeans would have over 50 million new, beautiful digital photos on their PCs every year. Usually not much is done with these beautiful photos. Almost the same is applicable for the many videos, tunes and ringtones teenagers create on their PCs themselves. From now on it is possible to get more out of these. The new website http://www.PhotoSociety.eu, introduced by internet and marketing company Senwa, gives all Europeans the opportunity to make the most of their most beautiful photos, videos and MP3 tunes.

New Online Marketplace for Digital Photos, Videos and Catchy Tunes

Over 100 million digital cameras were sold in Europe this year. The average number of photos taken with a digital camera is 500, resulting in 50 billion new photos every year. If only 0,1 % of these were saved, Europeans would have over 50 million new, beautiful digital photos on their PCs every year. Usually not much is done with these beautiful photos. Almost the same is applicable for the many videos, tunes and ringtones teenagers create on their PCs themselves. From now on it is possible to get more out of these. The new website http://www.PhotoSociety.eu, introduced by internet and marketing company Senwa, gives all Europeans the opportunity to make the most of their most beautiful photos, videos and MP3 tunes.

IBM, New York State to Invest in Nano-Chip Technologies

New York Gov. David A. Paterson on Tuesday announced significant new investments by IBM and New York state, accelerating New York state's international leadership in nanotechnology research and development and creating up to 1,000 new high-tech jobs Upstate. The state will provide a total of $140 million in economic development grants, leveraging more than a 10-to-one private investment of $1.5 billion from IBM.

GigMaven Levels the Playing Field for Artists and Venues

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- GigMaven, a web-based service that enables musical artists to find and book gigs online, has announced the Beta launch of their site, available at http://www.gigmaven.com. With over five hundred artists already signed on and a roster of some of the best-loved venues in Brooklyn, Boston, Columbus, and New York City, GigMaven is poised to super-charge local music scenes from coast to coast. The rapid growth of GigMaven has seen a 60% month by month growth of registered musicians this June, which is a 500% increase since its launch February.

GigMaven Levels the Playing Field for Artists and Venues

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- GigMaven, a web-based service that enables musical artists to find and book gigs online, has announced the Beta launch of their site, available at http://www.gigmaven.com. With over five hundred artists already signed on and a roster of some of the best-loved venues in Brooklyn, Boston, Columbus, and New York City, GigMaven is poised to super-charge local music scenes from coast to coast. The rapid growth of GigMaven has seen a 60% month by month growth of registered musicians this June, which is a 500% increase since its launch February.

GigMaven Levels the Playing Field for Artists and Venues

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- GigMaven, a web-based service that enables musical artists to find and book gigs online, has announced the Beta launch of their site, available at http://www.gigmaven.com. With over five hundred artists already signed on and a roster of some of the best-loved venues in Brooklyn, Boston, Columbus, and New York City, GigMaven is poised to super-charge local music scenes from coast to coast. The rapid growth of GigMaven has seen a 60% month by month growth of registered musicians this June, which is a 500% increase since its launch February.

LeapFrog Lets the Games Begin: New Web-Connected Gaming Handhelds Available Now

New Leapster2 and Didj(TM) Learning Platforms Change Playing Field for Educational Gaming EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Parents and kids will be winners with two new web-connected educational gaming systems from LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LF), a leading developer of technology-based learning products. The company today announced the Leapster2 Learning Game System, the latest handheld from the popular Leapster(R) family, and the all-new Didj Custom Gaming System are now available at major retailers and at http://www.leapfrog.com/gaming. In addition, 14 new software titles will launch from now through the holidays, including games featuring popular characters and stories from leading entertainment properties. Both gaming systems will connect to the new, proprietary LeapFrog(R) Learning Path, a free online tool

New Online Marketplace for Digital Photos, Videos and Catchy Tunes

SCHOONHOVEN, The Netherlands, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Over 100 million digital cameras were sold in Europe this year. The average number of photos taken with a digital camera is 500, resulting in 50 billion new photos every year. If only 0,1 % of these were saved, Europeans would have over 50 million new, beautiful digital photos on their PCs every year. Usually not much is done with these beautiful photos. Almost the same is applicable for the many videos, tunes and ringtones teenagers create on their PCs themselves. From now on it is possible to get more out of these. The new website http://www.PhotoSociety.eu, introduced by internet and marketing company Senwa, gives all Europeans the opportunity to make the most of their most beautiful photos, videos and MP3 tunes.

New Nikon COOLPIX Digital Cameras Feature Easy-to-Use Shooting, Sharing, Sending Capabilities

MELVILLE, N.Y. , Aug. 7 -- Nikon Inc. announced the launch of six new COOLPIX digital cameras featuring robust technologies designed to make photography easy and fun. New to the COOLPIX product line and present in each of the new cameras is the Scene Auto Selector Mode, which automatically selects the right scene mode for the image you are shooting for carefree photography. Nikon COOLPIX also makes taking great portraits a snap with new technologies, including Smile Mode, which automatically triggers the shutter when a subject is smiling and Blink Warning, which displays a message when it detects that a subject has blinked. In addition to these aforementioned features, present in select models of this new COOLPIX line are amazing technologies such as a TOUCH-SCREEN interface, Wi-Fi transmission and GPS capabilities.

Behold New Zealand: Here comes iPhone 3G

iPhone 3G’s launch is just 3 days away and due New Zealanders will be first people to get hold of new iPhone. Due to New Zealand’s graphical location Vodafone will become first company to sell iPhone 3Gs at 12:01 a.m. (New Zealand’s local time). Vodafone will kick off iPhone 3G’s sales at three local stores in New Zealand, Auckland City, Wellington, and Christchurch. Vodafone has announced three 24-month plans for iPhone. Plans vary from $60 ($80 NZD) to $189 ($250 NZD) per month.

Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law

JagsLive informs us that the electronics retailer Newegg.com is defying New York lawmakers; it has suddenly stopped collecting sales tax from New York online shoppers. The "Amazon tax," which went into effect June 1, requires online merchants to collect sales tax if they have any affiliates in the state. Amazon is complying but has sued the state on constitutional grounds. Overstock.com dropped all of its New York affiliates and then joined the Amazon lawsuit. Newegg started out complying with the law on June 1, but stopped collecting taxes for New York on August 21. From Newegg's letter to its customers: "After careful review and consideration, we are pleased to inform you that we have stopped collecting New York sales tax, effective August 21, 2008," reads an email the company tossed at customers late last week, including at least one l

Online shopping in New Zealand

Shopping is made easy with online malls rearing up their heads. And why not? With the advent of the e-technological age, more and more people are opting for online shopping. The face of online shopping is no different in New Zealand. Type “online shopping, New Zealand” or “online mall, New Zealand” in any of the search engines and hundreds of links are there for you to browse. With more and more people in New Zealand using credit cards, the sitting-at-home shopping, and its fast delivery has increased the number of hits on the online malls. A research states that an increase of 80 percent has been noticed in the last two years in New Zealand, when comparing the number of online shoppers.

New Zealand remain concerned over Pakistan security

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (Reuters) - New Zealand's cricketers remain concerned over the security situation in Pakistan ahead of next month's Champions Trophy, players' association chief Heath Mills said on Saturday.

New Zealand remain concerned over Pakistan security

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (Reuters) - New Zealand's cricketers remain concerned over the security situation in Pakistan ahead of next month's Champions Trophy, players' association chief Heath Mills said on Saturday.

Three artists ride 'Vomit comet' over Moscow

'Vomit comet' flies over Moscow - Three artists attempting to creat art in zero-gravity conditions during a parabolic flight over the skies of Moscow, resulted in two of them falling ill.


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