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Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:39PMThe marquee of West Side Story in Times Square in New York on July 27, 2010. (Photo courtesy: AFP) NEW YORK, Friday 30 July 2010 (AFP) - While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry.
Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 10:24PMBy Sebastian Smith FEATURE NEW YORK: While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry. This is gang warfare of a high-minded sort, pitting some of New York's best live musicians against a synthesizer they fear will usurp the job of playing Leonard Bernstein's ...
Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:23PMby Staff Writers New York (AFP) July 29, 2010 While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry.
Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:17AMNEW YORK (AFP) - While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry.
Nokia goes after Opera Mini Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:15AMIt'll have you in interstitials Nokia has unveiled a knock-off of Opera's Mini phone browser, intended for use on its low-end handsets in emerging markets. It's the first manifestation of Nokia's own ad engine.…
Online Arts Marketing in the Age of CRM and Social Media Conference Slated For September 16th in New York City Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 8:05AMConference Organized By Patron Technology Will Examine The Most Important Trends Facing Arts Managers Today – Social Media, CRM, Cloud Computing, and Online Streaming of Arts & Cultural Events
Apple fails to make iPhone jailbreaking a crime Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:34AMJailbreaking 'innocuous at worst, beneficial at best' The US Copyright Office and the Library of Congress yesterday ruled that the practice of hacking an Apple iPhone to install unauthorised apps is not a crime in the US. The decision will disappoint Apple, which was hoping to criminalise so-called 'jailbreaking'.
Apple loses bid to criminalise iPhone jailbreaking Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 6:58PMApple lost its bid today to criminalise "jailbreaking," the practice of hacking an iPhone to install unauthorized apps on the smartphone, according to a decision by the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress.
SuccessFactors Announces Record Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 6:08PMSAN MATEO, Calif., July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SuccessFactors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFSF) today announced results for its second quarter fiscal 2010 which ended June 30, 2010. "In Q2 2010, SuccessFactors again delivers strong organic growth. Cash-profitability continues to expand with cash flow from operating activities up 625% year-over-year. Over, the last 5 quarters, SuccessFactors grew ...
iPhone jailbreaking allowed by federal ruling Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 4:40PMApple lost its bid today to criminalize "jailbreaking," the practice of hacking an iPhone to install unauthorized apps on the smartphone, according to a decision by the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress. The decision, which was announced Monday by Librarian of Congress James Billington, adds jailbreaking to the list of practices that do not violate the Digital Millennium ...
AMD offers beta OpenGL driver for 3D internet Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 5:22AMAMD has announced that it has a new beta driver available for download. The new driver is ATI Catalyst 10.7 beta for OpenGL ES 2.0. The beta driver supports the new WebGL industry standard for plug-in free 3D graphics in the web. The new driver is designed to allow developers to make new 3D content that can be rendered quickly on a consumer PC. The driver also allows software developers to use ...
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 25 Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:19AMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
‘Very elegant and beautiful’ Says Software Team Manager Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:02PMHis daughter was enjoying the show. “She sits in her seat very focused and has enjoyed it very much,” said Mr. Nicoll.
It pays to find that missing link to Irish art and culture Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 7:13PMNET RESULTS:Grants are available for the application of easy to use technologies to promote Irish culture, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON
Sunday gala aids special-need Foothill students Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 2:15AMby Chris Kenrick As education budgets are slashed, volunteers are working to preserve threatened services to students with disabilities at Foothill College. A gala musical event Sunday (July 25) -- a kickoff performance of the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes" -- will raise funds for Foothill's Adaptive Learning Division, which serves 400 students each quarter but is itself hit by cutbacks.
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 22 Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 1:04AMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
Lynn Hershman Leeson blends technology and film Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 4:52PMRealities converge on screen When the definitive book on media arts is written, San Francisco artist Lynn Hershman Leeson deserves a long chapter. In the late 1970s, Hershman pioneered the use of interactive artworks with her laser disc "Lorna," which told... Lynn Hershman Leeson - San Francisco - New media art - Art - Digital
What's in? What's out of Chrome 6 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:10PMWant the ability to print preview in Chrome? We'll have to wait, because it's one of the features that didn't make the Chrome 6 cut.
Asknet expands to Taiwan, BRIC region Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 3:53PMAsknet, a service provider that helps US online retailers increase their sales in foreign markets, announced July 20 that it has expanded its reach into Taiwan and the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China.
AAS Insight 127 - News, Vivaz Pro, 3 UK and Big Roll Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 1:08AMIn All About Symbian Insight 127, we open with a discussion of Nokia's Terminal Mode, which is seeking to create an industry standard for the next generation of integration between cars and mobile phones.
Officials Revisit Lower Merion WebcamGate Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 5:29PMThe district will hammer out new rules about laptops following a controversial lawsuit last spring. Student - Lawsuit - Webcam - United States - School district
HD video has never been quicker or easier Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 7:14AMIf it's good enough for Mick Jagger, it's good enough for you. At the recent World Cup finals, the Rolling Stones frontman was spotted recording the footy action with a Flip video camera, possibly the simplest digital video camera there is.[...]
Changing focus to fit the times Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 10:35PM‘It’s a story about a problem and how people solve it,’’ the actor onstage at the Boston Children’s Museum told an audience made up largely of young grade-schoolers and their even younger siblings. Actor - Boston - Apple - Melissa Etheridge - Tammy Lynn Michaels
El Mitote July 18, 2010 Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 2:48AMGet FREE Daily Headlines by email! Santo Domingo Pueblo poet April Kateri Chavez will be performing with Grammy-winning hip hop artists Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots, as well as D.C. go-go band Mambo Sauce, in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall at 6 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. our time) today.
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 18 Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 1:18AMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
POLITICS IN BRIEF 16/7 Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 10:57AMViet Nam would do its best to boost co-operation with Australia, especially in economics, trade and investment, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating yesterday, July 15.
'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas' Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 7:36PMComposer David Cope has spent the last 30 years teaching computers to create classical music • Hear an example from David Cope's Emily Howell project • Download an Emmy Bach-style invention Where does music come from? If pressed on this question, many of us would say it comes from the "soul", or from the "heart" of the person who composed it. That music is the clearest expression of human ...
Sounds, scores and stories: Does new writing about music match the magic of its themes? Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 6:18PMToday the BBC Proms begin with the roof-raiser to outblast all rivals: Mahler's Eighth, the "Symphony of a Thousand", performed at the Royal Albert Hall 100 years after its composer's death. Long ago that work, and that venue, lent my childhood a slightly raucous high note when I made up a tiny short-trousered cog in its vast choral machine under Leonard Bernstein at his most gloriously ...
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for S60 Symbian smartphones available Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 10:48AMToday Opera announced the first beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1 for S60 smartphones. The device offers some featured pulled from the full desktop version such as speed dial, Opera Link, password manager, tabbed browsing, and Opera Turbo. Opera Turbo utilizes Opera servers to compress webpages for faster browsing. The software is available for Symbain S60 3rd and 5th edition smartphones, and to ...
News : 1-Bit Symphony: An Interview With Tristan Perich Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 10:06AMFour weeks ago I had never heard of artist Tristan Perich , but once I came across his 1-Bit Symphony —“an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip”—and discovered the complex yet elegant nature of his art, I now find it hard to stop hearing his compelling compositions running constantly in my head. His is the sort of work that sticks to your bones long after consuming it ...
Opera Mini 5.1 for Android released Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 8:21AMOpera Software has announced the release of the Opera Mini 5.1 browser for Android. Back in March, we reported on the release of the Opera Mini 5 beta browser for Android which was a long time coming since Opera Mini 5 was first launched in September 2009. The good news is we only had to [...]
Mac Firefox users to get tabs on top Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 7:41AMMozilla said it hopes to release its second beta version of Firefox 4 bringing Mac users a major new user interface that the first beta enabled by default only on Windows.
Opera Has Not Given up on Symbian [Apps] Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 6:10AM# apps Good old Symbian Series 60 is still around and going (fairly) strong, despite the dual Android/iPhone assault—and has today been brightened up no end by the arrival of a beta release of Opera Mobile 10.1. More »
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 15 Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 3:19PMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
LMRA launches hi-tech multilingual website Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 12:56AMBAHRAIN launched a cosmopolitan multilingual website which can be translated into more than 50 languages. Labour Minister and Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) chairman Dr Majeed Al Alawi yesterday patronised the launch ceremony.
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 11 Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ 1:04AMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
Thai Team Takes Top Honors in Imagine Cup Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 1:10PMMicrosoft announces winners of the Imagine Cup 2010 in Warsaw, Poland Imagine Cup - Poland - Warsaw - Competition - Microsoft
Close-Up: Austria's teenage ballroom dancers Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 11:56AMBallroom dancing has become more popular in recent years because of the TV series Strictly Come Dancing - but in Austria, waltzing has never gone out out of fashion.
Imagine Cup winners announced, Thai team takes first place Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 5:04AMProjects that help the hearing impaired, cut wasted electricity use, and use social media to promote volunteerism won the three major awards handed out at the 8th Annual Imagine Cup World Finals.
A creative alternative to the dole Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 12:00AMWith one in six young people out of work, the outlook for new graduates is bleak. But a New Deal of the Mind could ease fears of another lost generation The statistics speak for themselves: as the new Office for Budget Responsibility reported last week, around 600,000 jobs will be lost in the public sector in the next six years. Although ministers hope these will eventually be replaced by new ...
Ahead of the curve Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 8:28PMNEW technology is bringing architects’ most outlandish ideas to life.
Students Make Their Mark on the Future at the Imagine Cup 2010 Worldwide Finals Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 5:08PMWARSAW, Poland, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The winners of the eighth annual Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals were announced this evening at the Opera House and National Theatre (Teatr Narodowy) in Warsaw, Poland, where more than 400 students gathered to celebrate their unique innovations aimed at solving the world's toughest problems. This year's Imagine Cup, sponsored by Microsoft Corp. and ...
Opera's Opera Mini 5.1 browser improves performance on low-end phones Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 7:48AMToday Opera announced the latest version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini 5.1. The latest version is optimized for phones with limited memory. Opera offers some examples, including the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, Nokia 6300, and Nokia 2700. It's also optimized for smaller screen sizes for devices such as the Sony Ericsson K550i and W810i. Opera Mini compresses data by up to 90 percent to help avoid ...
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 8 Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 1:03AMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
Letters Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 4:29PMIt is becoming obvious that SDG&E’s smart meters may not be so smart and are definitely not ready for prime time ( “Sly Smart-Meter Swap-Out,” “City Lights,” April 8). On May 18, at least 4100 of us in Escondido had our smart meters permanently crash. Thirty homes were without power as a result.
INFO-TECH Sunday, July 4, 2010 @ 1:44PMOFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Mahindra Satyam to enter Vietnam, S. Korea Begins cloud-based services in Asia-Pacific.
Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- July 4 Sunday, July 4, 2010 @ 12:03PMUpcoming events in and around Broomfield
Browser Speed Tests: The Latest Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari—on a Mac [Performance Tests] Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 7:52AM# performancetests Many readers have asked us to replicate our browser speed tests on a Mac, to see the difference in platforms and performance. So we snagged a new MacBook Pro when nobody was looking and tested the latest browsers on it. More »
Study: App Vendors Ignore Basic Windows Security Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 5:26AMDo Windows application vendors really care about security? For many of them, it's a fair question. In a recent survey by Secunia, many of the most popular third-party Windows programs don't support a basic Windows security feature.
Popular apps don't bother with Windows defences Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 5:23AMNo belt, no braces Many popular software applications have avoided including security protection mechanisms built into the latest versions of Windows. The omission leaves these applications at greater risk of hacker attack, according to a study by security patching and notification firm Secunia.…