JamieG Analysis

In today’s post I want to honour my “too cleaver for his own good” brother. Martin Gardiner.
Recently I had a director and producer come into our office wanting to do a digital-HD screening for cast and crew. (I do encoding for cinema now and then) Somehow the camera was set up wrong and the pictures [...]

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Recently Microsoft announced that they are making available API information (Docs that describe how their products work. Note: no source code). This is a huge plus for everyone using Microsoft technology. I see great things coming from this. Still, I have never seen Microsoft do anything without reason.
The documents being released where, [...]

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As the MicroHoo sideshow continues, it is hard not to have something to say about the biggest hostile takeover in IT/Internet history. In a previous post I noted how Microsoft has won either way. The Dam-Buster bomb has gone off and hit its target. We are just waiting for the dame that [...]

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In Jan this year, I posted to some blogs that I expected Blu-Ray on the Xbox360 before the end of the year.  I like making predictions especially when they come true as my June post on Blu-Ray winning, and now Xbox-going Blue-ray. See this article about rumours of Blu-Ray for the Xbox.
Still, I want to [...]

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 Following up from a post a while back called:
Evolution of file copy. “cp”, “ftp”, “http”, “p2p”
A new project in the EU has been setup between a number of educational and corporate entities to give birth to the next big open standard Internet protocol.  I.e. an open standard P2P protocol.
This is great news for internet users [...]

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