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Palm to Close Most of Its Retail Stores

By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: January 28, 2008

Palm, the smartphone maker that is losing sales to BlackBerrys and iPhones, will close seven of eight of its retail stores next month.

Palm also will shut 26 Airport Wireless stores before the end of its fiscal third quarter, the company said Saturday in an e-mailed statement.

The store at Palm's office in Sunnyvale, Calif., will remain open.

Palm customers have fled to Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry device.

Apple also is taking buyers away with its iPhone, which was introduced in June.

Palm had said a shortage of parts would hurt production of its latest Treo smartphone.

Sales this quarter will fall to $310 million to $320 million, the second consecutive decline, the company said in December.

Analysts had expected $357.6 million in sales.
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Disabled Spy Satilite Threatens Earth

A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March, government officials said Saturday.

The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down, they said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is classified as secret. It was not clear how long ago the satellite lost power, or under what circumstances.

"Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, when asked about the situation after it was disclosed by other officials.

"Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen..

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Word of the day

Word of the day:

Electile Dysfunction: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for President put forth by either party in the 2008 election year
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Rim Quarterly Disaster Test Set For Saturday 2:00am-6:00am Edt

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BlackBerry Business Continuity Program Update

RIM is scheduled to perform a BlackBerry® disaster recovery application failover test on the BlackBerry® Infrastructure.
The next quarterly test is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, January 26, 2008 between approximately 02:00 AM EST and 06:00 AM EST.

RIM expects that BlackBerry service will be minimally impacted by this test if the recommended BlackBerry®Enterprise Server (BES) software configuration settings are in place.

Accordingly, if you have further questions about the recommended BlackBerry Enterprise Server software configuration settings, please refer to KB03735 and KB04359 in the BlackBerry Technical Solution Center.

Thank you for your assistance and your ongoing support of the BlackBerry solution from Research In Motion.

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Microsoft Unveils Virtualization Strategy

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posted by kdawson on 2008-01-22 09:28:00

billstewart writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft will be announcing a virtualization strategy on Tuesday.

Of course there's plenty of focus on the competition with VMware, including the obligatory reference to Microsoft's entry into the browser wars prior to cutting off Netscape's air supply.

The pieces of the picture will include: an alliance with Citrix Systems, owners of XenSource; acquisition of privately held Calista Technologies of San Jose, which has software that speeds up the performance of applications running in a virtualized environment; and lower price for Windows Vista used on virtualized computers.

Microsoft also reversed its earlier position and will now allow the Home Basic and Home Premium versions of Vista to run under virtualization. The company confirmed its plans to deliver it's

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Sony says unlocked music files in the cards for January

Date : Monday, January 07, 2008

Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Monday it will begin selling audio downloads in the MP3 format later this month, becoming the last of the four major record labels to sell some of their music without digital copyright protection software.

Sony BMG, the second-largest music company after Universal Music, said it would begin offering a gift card service on Jan. 15 in the U.S. that would allow consumers to purchase albums in the MP3 format.

The gift card program, called Platinum MusicPass, will debut later in January in Canada.

The cards will be priced at a suggested list retail price of $12.99 and will include the complete digital album plus bonus material or, in the case of compilations, extensive track listings.

Customers then scratch the back of the card to reveal an access code that will allow them to download their music files in the MP3 format.

Unlike other proprietary audio formats, the MP3 format does not use digital rights management, or DRM, copyright protection.

DRM software was originally added to audio tracks to prevent users from making multiple copies or sharing the files online for free but has been controversial with consumer rights groups, who have opposed DRM software on downloaded songs because consumers have traditionally had the right to copy songs they have paid for once.

Copy protection has also built walls between rival formats. DRM software prevents songs downloaded from Apple's iTunes store, for example, from being transferred to digital players made by Microsoft, Sony or other makers.

"The MP3 files delivered through MusicPass play on computers, as well as on all MP3 players, including iPods.

This makes them a simple, easy-to-use solution that will appeal to fans who already access their music on the internet, as well as to consumers who are just getting into the digital realm," Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's president of global digital business and U.S. sales, said in a statement.In Canada, participating retailers will include Best Buy, CD Plus, Future Shop, Shoppers Drug Mart and Wal-Mart, the company said.

In addition, HMV will launch MusicPass in Canada during the first calendar quarter of 2008, Sony said.

Industry moving away from DRMSony is the last of the four major record labels to experiment with audio tracks without accompanying DRM technology, as online sales haven't made up for a drop in album sales in recent years.

According to Neilsen SoundScan, the number of albums sold last year declined 9.5 per cent, even when accounting for online sales.

Last April, EMI Group became the first of the four major record labels to begin selling its audio files without DRM when it reached a deal to sell the unlocked songs at a premium price through the iTunes store and later Amazon.com.

Vivendi's Universal Music Group began selling its audio tracks DRM-free in August, while Warner Music Group announced a deal to sell MP3s through Amazon.com.

The record labels hope the move to strip DRM from their music will help them regain consumers who are getting their audio tracks through peer-to-peer file sharing networks.Internet users collectively download about 1.1 billion songs from file-sharing networks every month, according to U.S.-based online media measurer BigChampagne.

With files from the Associated Press

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Sony and Toshiba execs comment on Warner Bros. decision at CES

The biggest question at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which opened in Las Vegas today, is what Warner's decision to join the Blu-ray camp exclusively means.

Based on predictions from industry analysts at the end of 2007 it means Blu-ray will become the dominant format by the end of 2008, but Akiyo Ozaka, president of Toshiba America Consumer Products, isn't so sure, and he said as much at a CES press breifing.

Ozaka said "We have been declared dead before." He also said of the Warner Bros. decision, "We were very disappointed with Warner Brothers' announcement. Sales of HD DVD were very good last year, especially in October to December."

However, he didn't have any comments about what the company's next move would be.

Although apparently on the side with the upper hand right now, Sony CEO Howard Stringer wasn't much more talkative.

At a press conference yesterday he said "All of us at Sony are feeling Blu. But that is a good feeling. We thank Warner to release only in Blu-ray."

He declined to make any other specific comments regarding Warner Bros., but thanked all the companies currently backing Blu-ray for being "true blue all the way through."

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PS3 Holiday Sales Total 1.2 Million

Sony Corp. said Monday that PlayStation 3 game machine sales totaled 1.2 million in North America during the key holiday season, boosting the strength of the company's Blu-ray video format because the PlayStation 3 also works as a Blu-ray player.

PS3 sales are closely watched because competition is intense among the video game consoles - pitting Sony against Nintendo Co., maker of the Wii, and Microsoft Corp., maker of Xbox 360.

Competition is also fierce between the video formats Blu-ray and HD DVD,

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Detroit hospital guard captures man with grenades

Date : Sunday, January 06, 2008

A man with a history of mental illness was tackled and caught by a hospital security guard after he entered an emergency room in Detroit with two live grenades late Saturday.

The incident occurred after the man was searched when he triggered a metal detector, authorities said.

The emergency room was evacuated and no one was injured.Police said the 44-year-old man has a military background and that the grenades were the kind used in training and were less powerful than those that would be used in combat.

Police also searched the unnamed man's home and found two pipe bombs and two grenades.

The man is now in hospital for evaluation.

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Blu-ray discs winning DVD battle

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (UPI)

The ongoing battle for supremacy in the high-definition DVD market is now being lead by Blu-ray discs thanks to the U.S. entertainment group Warner Brothers.

The New York Times Saturday said the TV and film company has backed the Sony Corp. DVDs rather than rival high-definition DVDs, marking a distinct advantage in the battle to replace standard DVDs.

Experts said that Friday's announcement from the top company in the $42 billion global home entertainment market may be a major blow to HD DVDs.

"This doesn't necessarily kill the HD DVD format, but it definitely deals it a severe blow," DisplaySearch analyst Paul Erickson said.

"When a consumer asks a store clerk which format to buy, that clerk is now going to have a hard time arguing for HD DVD.

"Entertainment groups have been attempting to choose a high-def DVD format to allow the industry to move forward in marketing and give consumers a single video format to chose from, the Times said.

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by : Entertainment News EditorDate : Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:33:53 GMT
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Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars released

The Vatican's release of a historic document revealing the 14th Century trial against the Knights Templars sheds new light on books such as the Da Vinci Code. Large parts of the Templars' history has been unequivocally determined.

In the 14th-Century document, known as the Parchment of Chinon, Pope Clement V absolves the Templars of any wrongdoing. It is perhaps the most important Papal absolution that the world never knew about until a researcher, Barbara Frale stumbled on the document which had been miscategorized, in 2002.

The parchment, which has been released in its entirety last month, is particularly spectacular because it gives a detailed account of the Templar's role in history. Turns out some popular fiction and history writers, including the Da Vinci Code's author David Brown, are way off track. Another writer is so close that it has led to speculation whether he's an 'insider'. A rise of Neo Templarism might be on the cards...

Even though the document is not as important as for instance the Holy Grail, readers of the Da Vinci Code will certainly get some answers about why and how the Templars all of a sudden are left without a trace from the annals of history.

To give you a quick bird's eye view of the setting; the Knights Templar exited human history on a sour note. They were slaughtered by King Philip of France after having been accused of heresy.

The king of France had money troubles and simply butchered them shortly after they had received absolution of heresy by the Pope. Dan Brown describes this event in exactly the opposite way in the Da Vinci code. He says that the Vatican gave the orders for the destruction of the Templars and that the King of France played along.

Frale found the document after it had been overlooked by previous historians. She said that the last time that a thorough check through had occurred in the Vatican's Secret Archives at the beginning of the 20st century and that a catalog entry in 1628 was very vague.

"Unfortunately, there was an archiving error, an error in how the document was described," the Associated Press quoted her as saying. "More than an error, it was a little sketchy." Makes you wonder whether someone had tried to leave a message?

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Horseheads Masonic Lodge cancels Sunday breakfast event

Star-Gazette

Because another winter storm is forecast for over the weekend, the Horseheads Old Oak Masonic Lodge No. 364 has canceled its monthly $5 all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet that was scheduled for Sunday at the lodge, 111 S. Main St., Horseheads.

The monthly breakfast buffet is scheduled to resume on Jan. 20. The lodge uses the proceeds for the lodge and its community programs, including the Masonic ID Program

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