Austrian Monks Get Record Deal Via YouTube. Not quite the same market appeal as Chocolate Rain, but lovely nonetheless. Google Want White Space, seeing as the people off the telly don't want it anymore. Microsoft Making Moves On The iPhone...cos you know, it likes to DOMINATE. Son Shoots Dad For Banning Myspace, very sad but very true. Chinese Allowed To Access BBC - it's a whole new world out there....and Robert Salisbury discovers what happened When Craigslist Goes Wrong.
Top execs from Intel share their real and visionary technologies on stage at theIntel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2, 2008. Pat Gelsinger on "Nehalem" and "Dunnington" Dadi Perlmutter on solid state disks & chip architecture and Anand Chandrasekhar building a new heart for mobile internet devices with Intel Atom and "Moorestown." More info at www.intel.com/pressroom/idf.
A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line of Core 2 Duo processors, will debut in devices on display at IDF in Shanghai in early April. It’s no secret that China has come a long way in a short time — from being a country known for manufacturing cheap products for export to being, potentially, the next great IT superpower. National Science Board figures show that in 1994 there were only seven U.S. companies doing research in China. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 500. Gartner analysts James Popkin and Partha Iyengar wrote, in their 2007 book I.T. and the East, that the world “will witness the birth of a real IT superpower if government restrictions are loosened and the Chinese instinctive talent for entrepreneurialism continues to be encouraged.” It’s against this backdrop that the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2 and 3, 2008, takes on extra significance. China now supplies the talent, within the country, to conduct advanced research in chip design. At this year’s IDF in Shanghai, Intel will provide an update on new technologies and features that enable devices with better performance, less power, more mobility, and lower cost. If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.
Olympic games 2008 (torch trailer)
From housing to hotels, over 8,000 construction sites of scaffolds and cranes dot the Beijing skyline. GE is providing innovative solutions to more than 350 infrastructure projects in and around Beijing, including work at all 37 official Olympic venues and 168 commercial buildings. Get more Olympic news at: http://www.ge.com/news/olympic_games/index.html
School project, MTV Channel Indent created by me for coming Beijing 2008 Olympic games. Unofficial...
2008.03.10By Lucy Manning:"Ethiopia's marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie blames pollution for his decision not to run in the Beijing Olympics marathon.He's the world record holder - but Haile Gebrselassie won't be running the marathon in this summer's Olympic games.The Ethiopian runner, who suffers from asthma, said the massive pollution in China was a threat to his health.Gerbselassie said he would compete in the 10,000 metre event instead.He's not the only runner to express worries about China's climate problem. Britain's Paula Radcliffe has called in pollution experts to help her Olympic plans."
Barnaby Lo reports on the brain drain of doctors and nurses from the Philippines leaving for work in the U.S. For more, go to http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/12/philippines_hav.html
"Dishing Democracy" goes behind the scenes at Arabic television channel MBC in Cairo and its hit all-female talk show, KALAM NAWAEM. Similar in style to ABC's THE VIEW, the top-rated program is hosted by four presenters of different ages, nationalities, and points of view who tackle such sensitive issues as homosexuality, domestic violence, women voting, and social and political equality between the sexes. WIDE ANGLE demonstrates how the satellite television revolution is bringing unexpected voices for social reform into living rooms throughout the Middle East -- in primetime. PBS Airdate: Tuesday, July 31st at 9pm (check local listings). For more information please visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle
CBN News Reporter Laura Robertson explains how Chinese nationals feel about the Beijing Olympics in this video blog.
Former ABC news anchorman Ted Koppel has just completed a four-part documentary on China for the Discovery Channel. I spoke to him this week about his observations on the country and what kind of debate we ought to be having back home. Full interview airs July 9, 2008 Check your local listings.
The Olympic torch began its tour of China's earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province - the last stop before it heads to Beijing.
Progress in distributing aid is slowly being made
TechnologyNASA Spacecraft Successfully Lands on MarsNASA Spacecraft Successfully Lands on MarsThe Associated PressNASA's Phoenix spacecraft has successfully landed near Mars' north pole for a 90-day digging mission. Mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated after the Phoenix signaled back that it had survived Sunday's fiery entry. (May 25)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] ((NATS: Phoenix has landed)) NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has touched down on the Red Planet.The robotic craft sent a signal back to mission control in California after a nail-biting seven minute plunge.((Barry Goldstein/Project Manager: In my dreams it couldn't have gone as perfectly as it did tonight. It went right down the middle. We're on the surface. We had a minute worth of data after touch down.))At a speed of 12 thousand miles per hour and with its shields protecting it from intense heat...Phoenix made its way through the thin atmosphere on Mars.The craft was designed to dig into the icy soil near the planet's North Pole. Its mission-- determine if the frosty surface could have supported primitive life.Phoenix will remain on Mars for the next 90 days. ___ ___, The Associated Press.(****END****) ANCHOR VOICE: Carlotta Bradley-------------------------VIDEO PRODUCER: Bianca Davie------------------------------VIDEO SOURCE: NASA/Nasa Animation--------------------------VIDEO APPROVAL: ------------------------------VIDEO RESTRICTIONS: Must Courtesy-------------------------------- --SCRIPT/WIRE SOURCE: BC-Phoenix Mars, 4th Ld-Writethru,0778----------------------- -------------