Alpha_Elektra – Contest Launch
Alpha_Elektra_06, an initiative to foster creativity among youth.
-Elektra has launched a new project to encourage young people to create art using digital and electronic tools.
Groups or individuals aged 18 and younger will be invited to submit digital works of art that fuse sound and image. Prizes of $1,000 and $500 will be presented at an evening reception during the next edition of Elektra in May 2006.
Application forms and contest regulations will be available on the Elektra website as of this December 1st.
For more information, please contact:
Solange Baril - solange@elektrafestival.ca
The Sony Boycutt Heats up
Ah s***w sony.....(Actual Post from a very Active Forum)
-Having been a loyal sony customer for many years, I own:
a 51 inch widescreen 1080i
a 5.1 home theater system
3 foot tall floor standing speakers
2 DVD players
A sony vaio desktop
This is a new problem that has not been resolved yet so I am still kind of bitter: I have had bad service from sony with the 1080i, which is not something you desire after spending 2g's on a TV.
The tubes went bad(The TV is only 2.5 years old), they did so due to the crappy tubes sony put in the TV. Sony outright lied to customers about the number of TV's effected by this problem (They say 1%, it is closer to 20) and that the problem was "self correcting", sadly it is not.
Long story short:
Sony is going to replace the tubes in my TV free of charge. This is only because I spent 2 weeks on the damn phone with them in a futile attempt to get them to do anything. Finally I called a local service tech and he indicated "Oh the KP51WS? Let me have your serial number, the tubes in most of those models have been recalled and Sony has to replace them if the TV is less than 4 years old". Sure enough, my serial number was in the Database and Next tuesday the tech is comming to fix my TV.
It is just very frustrating to spend roughly 25 hours on the phone with Sony Tech Support and they tell me a tech needs to come out and do an inspection to see if they might fix the problem. Lame.
Not to mention they charge $250 for a damn (Proprietary) power supply for thier Vaio Desktops.
And now they rootkit my windows box for listening to rikki martin, Sony is livin la vida loca!~
Cam
Apple to Release it's First Intel Ready iBook in January 2006 According to Think Secret
-Apple is planning to release its first entry-level iBook laptops with Intel processors next January at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, highly reliable sources have confirmed to Think Secret.
It is not known exactly what processors or price points the new models will debut at, but it is thought Apple will expand the iBook line with one additional model and will lower prices—in some cases possibly $200 or more—to entice current Windows users and prove to the market it will be more competitive with the likes of Dell, Gateway, HP and Sony.
Need Content For Your Video Ipod?
-Great website that shows you all the latest video content for owners of the video ipod.
Take a look at: http://podguide.tv
Steve Jobs nominated for TIME's Person of the Year
-TIME Magazine has a poll up as to who should be the 2005 Person of the Year. Steve Jobs or U2's Bono? Decisions decisions...
Sony'S Official Apology
(November 16, 2005)
-To Our Valued Customers:
You may be aware of the recent attention given to the XCP content protection software included on some SONY BMG CDs (click here for list of titles). This software was provided to us by a third-party vendor, First4Internet. Discussion has centered on security concerns raised about the use of CDs containing this software.
We share the concerns of consumers regarding these discs, and we are instituting a program that will allow consumers to exchange any CD with XCP software for the same CD without copy protection. We also have asked our retail partners to remove all unsold CDs with XCP software from their store shelves and inventory. We will make further details of this program available shortly.
We deeply regret any inconvenience this may cause our customers and we are committed to making this situation right. It is important to note that the issues regarding these discs exist only when they are played on computers, not on conventional, non-computer-based CD and/or DVD players.
Our new initiatives follow the measures we have already taken, including last week’s voluntary suspension of the manufacture of CDs with the XCP software. In addition, to address security concerns, we provided to major software and anti-virus companies a software update, which also may be downloaded at http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html. We will shortly provide a simplified and secure procedure to uninstall the XCP software if it resides on your computer.
Ultimately, the experience of consumers is our primary concern, and our goal is to help bring our artists’ music to as broad an audience as possible. Going forward, we will continue to identify new ways to meet demands for flexibility in how you and other consumers listen to music.
Barenaked Ladies release album on USB stick
- "The Barenaked Ladies are trying out a new method of music delivery: 28 songs, plus video and audio clips and a few live versions, on a 128 mb flash drive."
