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After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

Washington Times Renews Website and Paper by: Santiago Leon, June 04, 2008 The Washington Times has recently gone from a 20th Century newspaper to a 21st Century multimedia company that most other news organizations have become. The Times renovated their website for the first time in about five years and changed the design, layout, to allow the readers to interact with today’s news. The website will provide videos and audio webcasts that will be of news stories reported by the Times reporters. The videos will also include six to eight original shows from popular personalities of the paper. One of...

One expert said some productions made by the terror group were 'good enough to put on the Discovery Channel' PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN In an Internet age, al-Qaeda prizes geek jihadis as much as would-be suicide bombers and gunmen. The terror network is recruiting computer-savvy technicians to produce sophisticated Web documentaries and multimedia products aimed at Muslim audiences in the US, Britain and other Western countries. Already, the terror movement's al-Sahab production company is turning out high quality material, some of which rivals productions by Western media companies. The documentaries appear regularly on Islamist Web sites, which al-Qaeda uses to recruit followers...

'Pocket Theaters' Emerge as New Trend A new era is dawning for a "theater in your pocket," or the so-called "palm theater." Just the size of a cigarette pack, portable media players allow people to watch movies, TV shows and online lectures anytime and anywhere. Replacing televisions and computers, these fancy gadgets are attracting more and more viewers. Portable media players are selling like hot cakes in Korea. Industry sources say over 2.3 million devices were sold last year, a 100 percent increase from 2006. Given that some 2.1 million TV sets were sold during the same period, it seems...

Even while former senator and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson hasn't officially started his bid for the White House, his online presence would make you think that there isn't even a question. Thompson's website ( http://www.imwithfred.com ) is multifaceted, enabling users, for example, to find their local media to contact newspapers and talk radio to show support. Thompson launched a YouTube channel on May 15 featuring not clips from his popular TV show but videos of speeches and one from an appearance with Tim Russert on Meet the Press. His social networking presence is also growing, with more and...

World Business Review is hosted by Norman Schwarzkopf and directed by Emmy Award winning Alan Levy. The show's format is a newsmagazine style and provides education about the latest topics, trends and issues in a variety of industries. WBR features On-Location field footage illustrating business strategies and technology in their application along with commentary from leading corporate executives and industry experts. World Business Review is independently produced by Multi-Media Productions USA, Inc. and is distributed worldwide on CNBC as paid programming and on Bravo as paid programming.

And we’re better looking, too. Market research firm Intelliseek reports that iPod users are among the most likely on the Internet to create and spread consumer-generated media. The company also thinks this will increase with the proliferation of Apple’s new video-enabled iPod hardware. iPod users are twice as likely to have authored a weblog than consumers who don’t have MP3 players, according to Intelliseek’s 2005 Consumer-Generated Media and Behavior Study. iPod users also users of other MP3 players when it comes to creating and posting content online. Intelliseek also reports that iPod users are 2.5 times as likely to exchnage...

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a new, slimmer edition of its all-in-one iMac G5. Powered by faster processors and numerous new internal components, the new iMac also features two new integrated Apple software applications, an infrared remote control, and a built-in video camera. “We think [the new iMac G5] is one of the best computers we’ve ever made,” Jobs said at the computer’s unveiling at a special press event in San Jose, California. The new iMac models — priced at $1,299 (17-inch display, 1.9GHz G5 processor) and $1,699 (20-inch display, 2.1 GHz processor) — are currently shipping from Apple’s factories in...

Bert and Ernie, those beloved "Sesame Street" characters, are now seen via video streaming on mobile phones providing entertainment for young children while their parents drive around town doing their errands. A new report by IDC, a research firm in Framingham, Mass., indicates that streaming -- such as the video service offered by Verizon Wireless -- soon may emerge as sort of a wireless babysitter for today's on-the-go parents. By Gene Koprowski

The opposition between Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs may never happen if just both camps could introduce devices supporting both types of optical media, believes Sony’s new chief Ryoji Chubachi.“Listening to the voice of the consumers, having two rival formats is disappointing, and we haven’t totally given up on the possibility of integration or compromise,” Ryoji Chubachi, Sony’s president-elect, said at a news conference in which he discussed the company’s performance and future strategy, according to IDG news services.Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by thirteen leading consumer...

Here's the perfect theme song for John Kerry's murky military history.click here:

Earlier this week, I got an e-mail from a reader that said: "As a PC user who juggles multiple applications to complete multimedia projects, I'm jealous of the integrated approach" of Apple's iLife programs. "Is there any product on the PC that comes close to the integrated solution you've discussed so many times for the Mac platform?" . . . . . . I have been testing the first program that claims to bring iLife-type simplicity, integration and power to the Windows PC. It's called Easy Media Creator 7, and it's from Roxio. The new suite wraps together the company's...

The university, as an institution, has been a critical partner in the mission of the Catholic Church since the founding the first great universities at Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bologna. John Carroll, America's first Catholic bishop, and founder of America’s first university in Georgetown in 1789, was driven by the vision of securing the future of American Catholicism through education. Today, more than ever, society needs strong Catholic leadership inside and outside the Church and looks to the university as a foundational establishment to cultivate future leadership. Like John Carroll, the founders of the New Catholic University (NCU), under formation...

GOTTA' SEE THIS!!!! A FANTASTIC, colorful multimedia slide presentation using Flash Multimedia (in Japanese) awaits you at this URL: http://www.asahi.com/special/iraq/It is today's online edition of the major Japanese daily, "Asahi Shimbun".1) GO to this page. Don't delay!2) Scroll down about 1/3 of the page and you will see three big graphic boxes and, when you cursor over them, hot links will take you to three short individual multimedia presentations the Japanese press has done on: a) Japan's MSDF Aegis warship capabilities and how/where they will help the USA in the coming War in the Indian Ocean; b) an excellent Iraq...

<p>A Greenville County circuit judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by talk show host Phil Donahue against the former owners of his show, Multimedia Inc., Universal Television Enterprises Inc. and Gannett Co., Inc.</p> <p>Donahue filed the lawsuit in the Greenville County Court of Common Pleas in 1997, alleging that his 1982 contract with Multimedia, which also owned The Greenville News, called for him to be given the option of buying the rights to the show and reruns if they were being sold.</p>