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To: SI Bob who wrote (3210)	1/9/2008 7:05:53 PM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 4895

The 25 Most Annoying Voices in... 25 Most Annoying Voices in Music - Bohemian Rhapsody theonegreatx.com Rick Miller [a] comedian [performing] a version of Bohemian Rhapsody during which he impersonates "twenty five of the most annoying voices in the music industry".

To: SI Bob who wrote (3210)	2/12/2008 2:09:49 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4895

Searching the Cosmos for a Singularity of an Audiophiliac The Shock and Awe of a Audiophiliac: A $6 million home theater crave.cnet.com Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born blogs.zdnet.com Move over Microsoft Singularity ( blogs.zdnet.com ) there’s another microkernel .Net-based operating system in town. And this one’s available under an open-source license. Known as Cosmos gocosmos.org the developed operating system (OS) is the brain child of a former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad “Kudzu” Unlike Singularity research.microsoft.com version one of which Microsoft released last year (and only to university researchers and academics) Cosmos is available to anyone. Cosmos FAQ document gocosmos.org “... boot .NET on a floppy or USB stick. Put .NET on Wii, OLPC, and iPhone. Developing a TCP/IP stack. Instead of deploying half a dozen virtualized OS’s, deploying many dozens of dedicated OS’s. One that only does DNS, a few that only do HTTP, etc. One instance, one function.” Will Opera Mobile perform for free? webware.com Opera opera.com should be bracing for impact. Will receive real pressure in the mobile-browser space from Firefox Mobile news.com and Skyfire webware.com Like Opera's cell phone browser Opera Mini operamini.com (video) download.com both newcomers are free. Opera Mobile opera.com opera.com which serves Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones, is a commercial product that smartphone users may not want to pay for when handed alternatives gratis. How does Opera plan to keep current customers [between] paying $24 and $0? Apple's iPhone cnet.com has put an emphasis on full-fledged browsers on mobile devices instead of the limited-function ones that so far prevail in the market. "The user demand for a full browsing experience on mobile devices is clear. Apple's products use its own browser, Safari, but another option is Opera, which has had a long-standing mobile browsing effort, with products including Opera Mini and Opera Mobile. Skyfire and Firefox Mobile are on their way, offering to smartphone users for free some of the same technology Opera uses to deliver full and familiar Web pages at a cost. This is undoubtedly good for consumers, as competition almost always is. Get your local news on Google News blogs.zdnet.com New feature googlenewsblog.blogspot.com lets you add a new section that pulls only local news for the location you specify. Load up Google News by clicking here news.google.com Middle of page asks you to enter your location in a text box. At this point, it will fill in that box with local news headlines, also create a brand new sidebar item that will give you a more complete view of what’s happening near you. -end=