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New Digital Music Format Delivers Six-Channel Equalizer

Korean software engineers are introducing a new digital music format dubbed MT9 and want it to replace the MP3 as the de facto format for the future. With the ability to separate music into six channels (voice, chorus, piano, guitar, bass, and drum), a listener can hear how bad some singers really are without the band to cover up their warbling.

Nikon D700 FX-Format D-SLR

Nikon, Inc. has introduced the new D700 digital SLR camera featuring a 12.1-effective megapixel Nikon FX-format sensor that measures 23.9 x 36mm, which is nearly identical to the size of 35mm film. The D700 offers pro-level performance and an extensive array of features and innovations. In addition to the Nikon-original FX-format CMOS sensor, the D700 incorporates Nikon's EXPEED Image Processing System, Nikon’s 51-point auto focus system with 3D Focus Tracking and two Live View shooting modes that allow photographers to frame a shot using the camera's three-inch high-resolution LCD monitor. The D700 also features Nikon’s Scene Recognition System and a new active dust reduction system.

Comtex To Provide XHTML Format From Business Wire

Comtex News Network, Inc., provider of economically useful electronic real-time news, content, and SmarTrend market products, announced that news from Business Wire in XHTML format will soon be available to all its clients. XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a format that retains the features and functionality of the original document while enhancing online search functions. XHTML allows content providers more control regarding the look and feel of their press releases. Issuers are to embed hyperlinks behind keywords, present wider earnings tables that include underlines, and include bullets & superscript notations.

A Genome in Any Format

In a recent post, Andrew Yates asked, "How much data is a human genome?" He then did a little math to show that an uncompressed diploid human genome would easily fit on two music CDs, if stored as a text file. That got Genetic Future's Daniel MacArthur thinking. There are, he says, other formats that a human genome could be stored in, including as images from an Illumina machine. In that format, a genome with 30x coverage would take up about 28.80 terabytes. Also, if the sequence data is stored as a Sequence Read Format file, the storage space'll top out at 1.98 terabytes.

MS offers Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0

In addition to its latest Office 2004 XML update and Office 2008 stability update, Microsoft on Tuesday quietly (and finally) released its much-anticipated Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0, which allows users to convert Open XML files that were created in Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows. The software allows them to open, edit, and save the files in earlier versions of Office for Mac. Open XML Converter can convert Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint presentations that are in the Open XML Format and can convert and open a single file, or convert a large number of files. The download is 45MB; it is available free of charge.

Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 Format

PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Audiobook Downloads -- a new audiobook download service -- debuts today on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks on CD that are available in Borders stores and online. At launch, more than 5,000 of the listed titles are available in MP3 format, a digital format that is universally compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods. Leading digital audiobook distributor OverDrive provides both the inventory and the underlying technology for the new Borders.com service.

Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 Format

PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Audiobook Downloads -- a new audiobook download service -- debuts today on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks on CD that are available in Borders stores and online. At launch, more than 5,000 of the listed titles are available in MP3 format, a digital format that is universally compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods. Leading digital audiobook distributor OverDrive provides both the inventory and the underlying technology for the new Borders.com service.

Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 Format

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Audiobook Downloads -- a new audiobook download service -- debuts today on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks on CD that are available in Borders stores and online. At launch, more than 5,000 of the listed titles are available in MP3 format, a digital format that is universally compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods. Leading digital audiobook distributor OverDrive provides both the inventory and the underlying technology for the new Borders.

Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 Format

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Audiobook Downloads -- a new audiobook download service -- debuts today on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks on CD that are available in Borders stores and online. At launch, more than 5,000 of the listed titles are available in MP3 format, a digital format that is universally compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods. Leading digital audiobook distributor OverDrive provides both the inventory and the underlying technology for the new Borders.

Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 Format

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Borders Audiobook Downloads -- a new audiobook download service -- debuts today on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks on CD that are available in Borders stores and online. At launch, more than 5,000 of the listed titles are available in MP3 format, a digital format that is universally compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods. Leading digital audiobook distributor OverDrive provides both the inventory and the underlying technology for the new Borders.

Borders.com Now Offering Thousands of Audiobook Downloads in MP3 Format

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 14, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- BGP | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Borders Audiobook Downloads -- a new audiobook download service -- debuts today on Borders.com, offering an initial 15,000 titles, including fiction and non-fiction bestsellers, classics, self-help and children's books, among other categories. Each week, hundreds of new titles will be added to the online catalog of audiobook titles, augmenting the vast selection of audiobooks on CD that are available in Borders stores and online. At launch, more than 5,000 of the listed titles are available in MP3 format, a digital format that is universally compatible with all MP3 players, including iPods. Leading digital audiobook distributor OverDrive provides both the inventory and the underlying technology for the new Borders.

Addonics Zebra Super Multi Blu-ray and HD DVD Drive Review

The problem with the whole format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray is not choosing the winner—that's probably still a year or two away. The problem is that if you pick one format, you'll be missing out on great movies in the other format. Choose Blu-ray, and you miss out on the Matrix Trilogy and Transformers. Chose HD DVD, and no Pirates of the Caribbean for you.

Teleconference: Maximize eCommerce Content To Drive Sales

You can still listen to or watch the teleconference at a time that's convenient for you. We offer the hourlong archived teleconferences in MP3 format (audio only) or in WebEx format (audio with PowerPoint slides). Choose the format that is convenient for you.

New ICC chief warns against Twenty20 overkill

LONDON (Agencies): New international cricket chief Haroon Lorgat said it was important that the expanding Twenty20 format did not begin to dominate the Test and 50-over game. South African Lorgat, who will become the International Cricket Council's (ICC) chief executive in July, said test cricket must remain the leading format in the sport. "I sat in on the ICC cricket committee meeting this month and they were very clear that Test cricket should remain the pinnacle of the game and I agree," Lorgat told Reuters in a telephone interview. Twenty20, which began in England in 2003, is making rapid progress as the game's most popular format and since the inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Cup in September, a slew of Twenty20 events have surfaced. The unofficial Indian Cricket League began, the officially-backed Indian Premier League started last mon

FileCarver 1.5.0 Released

Fizzysoft has released version 1.5.0 of FileCarver, a powerful developer tool for editing binary files. This program allows the user to specify the format of an arbitrary binary file, and from this it will generate a fully-functional GUI to edit files in the format. Using this program for creating editors for game-specific binary files is a huge productivity boost, as creating a fully-fledged file editor is as easy as making a short XML definition of a file format.

DVD ripper

DVD ripper - DVD Ripper is a powerful, easiest and fastest DVD ripper application for converting DVDs to all most video format movie and video or audio with excellent output quality. It can convert DVD to iPod video, PSP video, ZUNE video,iPhone video, Apple TV video, Mobile video, PC mpeg4 video and so on. You can enjoy your favorite DVD on your iPod, PSP, Mobile or other popular devices on the market etc. Features: - Direct convert DVD to MP4 format - support DVD to iPod - support DVD to PSP - support DVD to 3GPP - support DVD to 3GP2 - support DVD to AVI, Divx, Xvid - support DVD to PC MP4 - support DVD to Audio MP3 - support various MP4 video format and video size - Support rip chapter to MP4 - Automatically shutdown computer after long time conversion - Easy-to-use interface - Real time preview - Allows you to select target subtitle

Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML

Andy Updegrove writes "About two hours ago, Microsoft announced that it will update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format. Not until Office 14 is released (no date given so far for that) will anyone be able to buy an OOXML ISO-compliant version. Why will Microsoft do this after so many years of refusal? Perhaps because the only way it can deliver a product to government customers that meets an ISO/IEC document format standard is by finally taking the plunge, and supporting 'that other format.' Still, many questions remain, such as when this upgrade will actually be released, how good a job it will do, and whether the API Microsoft has said it will make available to permit developers to supply 'save to ODF' default plugins will be supported by a patent non-assertion promise allowing implementati

Multi-page PDF To Multi-page TIFF and Archiving?

GeorgeMonroy writes "One of my clients has aperture cards that they have been scanning into multi-page PDF files — but now they want them in multi-page TIFFs instead. One of the reasons they gave for this is that TIFF files require less storage space. While that is true, I wonder if TIFF is the best format going into the future. Are TIFFs better than PDFs for future use? I wonder what format you think would last longer. Are there any other formats that you think would be better or more future-proof? To me, storage is not a good enough reason to go to TIFF, because storage prices are always dropping anyway. Also, since they already have many of these files in PDF format and they want to convert them into multipage TIFFs, are there any programs that you can recommend that will perform batch processing of files so that we do not have to co

Korean music format MT9 tries to replace MP3 - with a karaoke twist

Yet another format is attempting to replace MP3 as the standard for digital music, but can MT9 really succeed where others have failed for a decade - even with its advanced features?

New multi-track format may supplant MP3...

A new audio format in the works could provide much more flexibility for both listening and editing to music, according to its creators. Developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and put into public use as Music 2.0 by Audizen, the MT9 standard would provide six audio channels for different instruments, similar to multi-track recording at a studio. Listeners could separately adjust the volume for each track to either balance out audio quality or alter the track for specific purposes: karaoke singers could mute vocals to use their own, while remix artists could selectively drop out certain parts of the track without needing access to the master recordings.

OOXML -- dead format walking?

Microsoft's controversial OOXML document format is not going anywhere, observes Jason Brooks in a blog posting at

Nikon Debuts FX-Format D700 DSLR

Nikon’s new FX-format D700 digital SLR, geared toward serious photographers, includes advanced features like a 12.1 MP CMOS sensor, ISO up to 6,400, continuous shooting up to 5 frames-per-second (fps), scene recognition, and a weather-resistant body.

Nikon Debuts FX-Format D700 DSLR

Nikon’s new FX-format D700 digital SLR, geared toward serious photographers, includes advanced features like a 12.1 MP CMOS sensor, ISO up to 6,400, continuous shooting up to 5 frames-per-second (fps), scene recognition, and a weather-resistant body.

Business Wire's XHTML Format, Which Provides a More Stylized and Searchable Online News Display, to Be Available via Comtex News Network

Business Wire's XHTML Format, Which Provides a More Stylized and Searchable Online News Display, to Be Available via Comtex News Network

Business Wire's XHTML Format, Which Provides a More Stylized and Searchable Online News Display, to Be Available via Comtex News Network

TMCNet: Business Wire's XHTML Format, Which Provides a More Stylized and Searchable Online News Display, to Be Available via Comtex News Network


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