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From flea market to global marketplace Monetizing and commercializing online video
But now, the big boys are stepping in, and the local flea market is beginning
Online video sites are like a digital media flea market. Folks come to show, to look like a global shopping mall.
share and swap their wares, unencumbered by over-riding commercial "Online video is emerging from its infancy and entering the mainstream.
concerns. That can be good or bad, frustrating or satisfying— but it's all part Many publishers and advertisers are responding to this trend, which means
of an exciting sense of discovery and shared experience. advertising dollars will continue to migrate online where consumers can be
The online video phenomenon began [much as the Web in general and P2P targeted with efficiency,' says Jack Flanagan, well-known Internet guru and
in particular) by promising empowerment to individual content creators or founder of a online audience measurement firm.
documentarians, b e t h e y neophyte, amateur, independent o r even Flickr, the original Canadian photo-sharing site, was snapped up by an
professional.The ability t o share one's own video content [ o r musical international media conglomerate. MySpace has a deal with Fox TV. MSN has
favourites o r personal photo albums or citizen journalist submissions) a video deal with Soapbox. User-generated content will still be available, but
online opens up an almost unimaginably wide landscape o f styles, popular TV shows are featured and sold online more and more.
concepts, interests and audiences. Many viewers say i t s precisely the Like on YouTube. It signed a deal with giant Warner Music [but it is in legal
marginality of such content that gives video sharing its unique viewability, limbo with others), and will offer as many established stars and branded
and ever-increasing popularity. artists as it does user-originated material.
Among websites ranked by comScore Media Metrix, for example, YouTube As yet unsettled issues with user-generated content are questions o f
scored 19.1 million unique visitors in August (up 19 per cent over the ownership, rights and compensation. Legal eagles are still exploring the
previous month). That makes it the 32nd most-visited Web property. Web ramifications of hosted material that is deemed libelous or defamatory, even
surfers now download 100 million videos a day on YouTube — none more as they jostle over who controls the material in the first place, and who may
than 10 minutes long. benefit from its exhibition or distribution.
Host sites — like Digg, YouTube, MySpace, OhMyNews, Google, Rocketboom, Video submissions to MSNBC, for example, are covered by an agreement
LeapFrog and others — are technology enablers, providing storage space that grants t h e company " a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive,
and bandwidth. It's the creators themselves that fuel the fire, creating unrestricted, worldwide license to: use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit,
entirely new markets where the major media companies apparently thought publicly perform or display' any contributions it gets! Interestingly, those
none existed. rather comprehensive rights are also granted to third party sub licensees.
A less commercial approach is followed by online video sites such as Digg, Online video and personal broadcasting
which operates under the Creative Commons Public Domain License, While protection from legal hassles is one significant consideration when
stipulating that video submissions are "dedicated" to the public domain. sharing video, personal broadcasters are looking to supplement their own
In the case o f YouTube, music giant Warner has licensed its songs to income, not that of a million-selling artist.
YouTube, so that anyone who uploads their own version of a popular tune are One approach is the revenue sharing model unveiled by Google or Blinkz.
allowed to do so — usually. YouTube will use tracking technology t o tag People who post videos may set their own price points, or series of prices,
people uploading copy-protected songs, and it will pass the information on depending on content, quality, length and other factors. Some online video
to its corporate decision-makers to see if the video gets "approved." Some sharing host sites are exploring ways to share advertising revenue with the
might argue that fair use considerations in most copyright laws already content creators, as well.
allow such usage. Hosted video is just one approach, however. Content creators can still share
by using new digital media tools to broadcast video, photo and audio content The directory lists a range o f content from serious corporate video
directly from their desktop. Software from PiXPO and others, enables the messages to humorous user-generated content. You can also search for
specific videocasts or topics of interest by content, keyword, tags and so on.
distribution o f seemingly unlimited amounts o f personal media from a
Its like a department store 'You Are Here" map, but at your favourite
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broadcast, and avoid the entire upload process. Pixpo says it will soon
Lee Rickwood operates WordOnA Wire, an independent company providing editorial,
incorporate tools to let users monetize their own content.
media production and consulting services to individuals and companies across North
The idea o f personal broadcasting, as opposed to posting videos on a
America. He can be reached at [email protected].
hosted site, is also behind Stickam, a new Web application that allows
anyone to broadcast live streaming video over the Internet, in addition to
uploading videos, pictures and music an a personal blog or website. EtTu, YouTube
Videos can be viewed by virtually anyone (there's no software to install) She's not lonely. She's not 15.
and will play on Linux, Windows and Mac systems. She is female, but lonely gir115 is not even human in some ways.
Toronto's BubbleShare, with an enhanced photo and voice sharing service, Popular MySpace vixen is really a professionally produced viral market,.
lets users view content instantly on the desktop without opening their campaign.
browser or email application. BubbleShare is a no-registration-required, Outed recently by Web surfers who thought her persona, her words, and
voice caption-enabled service for sharing stories over the Internet. Users especially her video clips, looked a little too good to be true, "Bree" is
can upload photos individually or in batches, record 3 0 -second audio shilling for a creative ad agency, the powerful Creative Artists group in
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one or more email addresses. The basic service is free, with a premium they say they will continue to do so.
service due to launch later in 2006. No word on whether video-sharing Whether the site will continue to draw some 2.5 million visitors, now the
capabilities will be included in a future release. cat has been let out of the bag, remains to be seen. Much of the interest in
From its Lethbridge, Alberta offices, comes word of Spymac Leapfrog, a user-generated content comes from the fact it could be us. It's P2P (people
platform-specific tool for video chat, as well as posting and finding content to people), not B2C (business to consumer).
for the newly enhanced iPods. Interestingly, Leapfrog-enabled sites are Has the relationship between YouTube and its visitors (or between any
automatically regionalized, depending on location and language, as a way to video sharing service and its community of interest) been permanently
re-contextualize the content for people around the world. Spy mac Leapfrog scarred as a result of blatant manipulation and misrepresentation?
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Finding all this content, and sorting through all the video clips out there, is
another key aspect o f online video sharing, and new tools and being Some Suggested Links and Online Resources:
released to sift through it all. www.blinkx.com
ClipBlast has introduced video search technology and what it calls the first www.bubbleshare.com
online video search toolbar, which allows users to search for video across www.clipblast.com
the Web - a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and www.funlittlemovies.com
MSN do not provide. ClipBlast says it's been indexing millions o f clips www.google.ca
already, categorizing video files, Web pages and feeds so it can serve up vnvw.myspace.com
content in real-time, on demand. www.ohmynews.com
ClipBlast also offers back-end capabilities that organize and monetize video wwwpixpo.com
libraries, providing content owners a n d advertisers w i t h revenue www.singingfish.com
opportunities drawn from targeted video-viewing audiences. www.stickam.com
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far better at conveying a message. As podcasts become increasingly easier 16-year-old girl complaining about too much homework."
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and audio and video blogs may follow because they share such a similar
production process. Operating systems now include the necessary
software applications t o create podcasts (and hence audio and video
blots) . Windows Movie Maker and Apple iMovie are not as fully featured as
standalone video editing software (like Adobe Premiere orAvid Xpress], but
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interesting editing effects for user-created vidcasts. Furthermore, whatever
can't be done with OS-included software can usually be accomplished
. using various freeware applications found around the web.
One of the greatest aspects of user-created content, which is especially
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professionally produced. In fact, it's quite the opposite, partly because the
technology is easier to use and more accessible. "As the common platforms
[become] easier to use and offer more tools for audio/video incorporation,
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digital cameras and post them on their own personal blog. Also, as more
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and -the cellphone video technology gets better, I think we'll see an
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credibility), isn't absolutely necessary. Realistically, all you need to make
an audio/video blog is a webcam or microphone (or any other device that
captures audio o r video) and a decent web connection. Once you've
recorded an entry there is nothing stopping you from posting it, as is, on
your blog, instantly releasing it to a worldwide audience.
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be regularly hooking up their computers to their TVs or monitors to [watch) •
the wealth of content that is available online."
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spotty cellular phone coverage — with roaming agreements. In 2004, Bell,
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participating locations, and set up the login so that you could access the
hotspot and pay for usage on your cell phone account. I used the service in
Calgary Airport and in several coffee chains across the country and tills
solution goes a long way to solving the two problems. First, because the
participating locations are most often chains that people readily recognize
and business travellers might be inclined to visit, the "where i s it?"
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of these hotspots becomes a little easier because most businesses will
post the logo on their door. Common locations are Mailboxes Etc. (now UPS
Stores), some latte shops (I noticed the logo at the local Starbucks attached
to Chapters bookstore) and places like that.
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carriers, you'll be able to use the service and not have to start a separate
account or give out credit card information. The telcos vary in how they
charge for usage, with some you have to buy a block of time and are billed
for that block, regardless of how much time you actually use. Others simply
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free convenience, while others treat it as a profit multiplier, typically connected we could be beyond the metropolis.
charging 510 for a 24-hour usage period. But at least you don't have to This was, in short, an abysmal experience, but with a few bright spots. The
divulge credit card information as it typically goes on your room account. Meadowlark, and another campground west of Thunder Bay, Ont. were the
Unless you have access to executive class lounges, connecting at the surprises. The logins were arcane and the signal weak unless you were in
airport can also be a crapshoot. I recently travelled through Pearson's new the office where the router was. But the potential as a tourism booster
Terminal 1 in Toronto, and discovered the WiFi service there provided by seemed good — imagine logging onto a local community's web site after
Concourse Communications. After giving them permission to lighten my pulling into a campground and being able to plan the next day's activities
credit card account by the going daily rate, I was online. But a cheery email around the latest event schedules or discover all the things in the area
confirmation that I'd not have to register again if I wanted to use the service worth a visit that the tourism brochures fail to mention.
in the future leads me to the uncomfortable suspicion that my credit card The reason why it was largely abysmal gets back to one of the problems
number is forever in its clutches. My experience at Calgary Airport, paying already stated — finding WiFi locations in strange places. I had downloaded
for hotspot usage on my cell phone account, was much more agreeable. a list of WiFi locations from a web site before leaving on the trip, but it was
For the past year, VIA Rail has been implementing an on-train WiFi service a pain trying to find specific street addresses of often-small storefronts.
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the line. The service began i n business-oriented VIA1 coaches arrd Mailboxes Etc. location, we decided that the vacation was beginning to feel
Panorama Lounges, but will include coach class too when fully rolled out. too much like work and abandoned the project. So finding the WiFi
Cost: 58.95 per day (per minute and per month rates also offered), and yet campground near Thunder Bay was a lucky coincidence because we were
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Having long since relegated Netscape Navigator to virtual obscurity, Microsoft had grown
comfortable in the knowledge that Internet Explorer was the unopposed monarch of all
web browsers.
But then along came an open source browser called Firefox from the non-profit Mozilla
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popularity—recent estimates place Firefox's total share of the browser market at an amazing
12 per cent.
Microsoft suddenly had competition again.
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The result: Internet Explorer 7 [lE7), a very different browser than the IE people have
grown used to over the years. It's an application that borrows and originates in roughly
equal measure.
The most obvious example of 1E7's borrowed functionality is tabbed browsing. Microsoft's
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than its competitors, many features in 1E7 labeled original and innovative Microsoft talks a good game, but not untillE7 is in the hands of the public
have to, do with security. Most of these changes work behind the scenes, —including hackers—will we know just how safe the new browser really is.
but there are a couple of more obvious security upgrades that the average In the meantime, the biggest problem faced by IE may well be Microsoft's
Joe can appreciate. bloated and lengthy development process. More than five years have
The first is an automated phishing filter. This filter, which is turned on by passed since Internet Explorer 6 was released, and competitors made
default but can be switched off by advanced users, warns people when serious inroads into Microsoft's browser space in the interim. If we have to
they encounter known phishing websites. In extreme cases the filter may wait another five for Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft's nimble challengers
even deny access to a site to protect the integrity of user's PC. may gain even more ground.
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(ActiveX is a technology used to embed multimedia files in web pages). In launch with Windows Vista next year).
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went out? competitively with mid-range inkjet printers. They are faster than inkjets,
particularly for making multiple copies of the same document. On cheap
office paper the image quality is arguably better from a colour laser than
from an inkjet. And colour lasers are cheaper to run, on the order of three
to five cents per page for black and 16.20 cents per page for full colour.
But they definitely take up more desk space and weigh a lot more. And
even though the cost per page sounds agreeable, replacing toner
cartridges is expensive. Colour lasers use four — cyan, magenta, yellow
Buy a UPS from www.upsforless.ca and black — and each toner cartridge will set you back $100.5150.
and keep your computer running during Fortunately they are rated for at least 1,000 pages, with high capacity
electricity interruptions. ones good for up to 5,000 pages. Manufacturers typically qualify the
page ratings with something like 'at five per cent coverage," which isn't
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APC SmartUPS 1400VA 950 Watts APC SmartUPS 2200VA 1600 Watts for 5299 at some stores. The Lexmark CS0On has a suggested retail
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For fine art and photography printmaking where resolution, tonal range,
archival permanence and colour fidelity are important, a six- or eight-
coi6ur photo inkjet is so superior to a colour laser that there's no contest.
As well, if you need printouts that are larger than letter or legal size, you
can get into a wide-carriage inkjet for less money than a tabloid laser.
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Sound's Important — Everywhere! and while it is well-used for music, jingles and soundtrack work, it is
Digital Audio Editing, Part 2 very good for spoken word material as well. Likewise, Apple's Final Cut
Its long been the shame of many video producers that audio is the poor Pro has audio tools, but nowhere near as many or as powerful as in its
cousin in the media world. Often, as little as 10 per cent of a video's dedicated audio program, Soundtrack.
production budget is spent on sound, and just as often, that is to the So, with a simple nod to the those and other powerful audio tools
video's loss. (Cubase, or Pro-Tools, come on down!), here in Part Two, we'll look at a
Put another way: how long did silent movies (pictures without good couple of software programs for the editing and production of spoken
sound) last, as opposed to radio (good sound without pictures)? word or vocal-based audio content.
As we saw in last month's DV, or Not DV, PC-based hardware support for Let's start where things sound good right off the bat: good, easy
audio production is becoming more common, more functional and more and cheap!
economical. In fact, the last issue of HUB: Digital Living, subtitled The Audio Audacity is a handy little audio recording and editing program for all
Issue, was dedicated to sounding good — whether singing, playing an PCs and their operating systems. It is open source software, freely
instrument or building sound samples. distributed under the General Public License (my copy of the program
As was explained, there are dedicated software solutions for each: came with the MicroTrack 24/96 mobile digital recorder). Like all GPL
great music programs for creating your very own CD, looping programs software, Audacity's source code is open and available to investigation,
for original musical tracks, sampling tools and MIDI programs f o r enhancements and improvements from the user base.
sequencing and composing, powerful programs for recording, mixing and Audacity works with high quality sound, and can record and edit
publishing music. 16-, 32- and 64-bit audio at up to 96 KHz. Using its own dithering and
And, as digital video editors know, pretty much every video editing re-sampling algorithms, Audacity works with a wide range o f audio
software program has some sort of audio functionality, from basic two- formats and sample rates, converting them automatically in real-time.
track sound tools t o sophisticated m u l t i -track audio m i x i n g and It supports several common audio file formats (again, you can.refer to
manipulation programs. Video editors like Adobe Premiere do have some the last issue of HUB: DL for more technicalities about music and
audio functionality; Audition is the company's dedicated sound program, .audio), such as WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files. Support for MPEG
formats is available, but Audacity does not currently support WMA, MC,
or other such proprietary or restricted file formats.
Audacity records audio through a microphone or mixer, or you can use
Ell 3J Data Rec e i u it to digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs.
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The program uses what's known as an "Envelope" tool for fading or raising and Windows XP, and it's used primarily to correct intonation problems in
volume smoothly, and a mouse-driven "Drawing" tool to alter individual vocal or solo instrumental performance. It does so in real-time, without
sample points. distortion or artifacts, while keeping all of the expressive nuances of the
Even though I have access to other audio programs, and powerful video original performance.
editing tools, I often use Audacity for editing spoken-word podcasts. It's Over a typical pitch correction range, it is simply not possible to tell that a
ability to help me quickly cut out unwanted sections, clean up undesirable sound has been processed, except that it is perfectly in tune. It's possible
noises, and package the 'cast with music, effects or other sound sources is to -save" even the most off-key or vibrato-saturated vocal (or instrumental)
hard to beat — especially at the price. performance, and that's why it is well-known and well-liked in the music
n-Track is an audio and MIDI editing software, newly available in its recording business.
Studio 5 version. Another Antares program, called Throat, is a dedicated "vocal designer" —
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(running natively on x64 versions). Using a 64 bit internal sound path point, for example, of adding "breathiness" to a recording.
makes for the maximum audio quality available on today's CPUs. It's priced According to some observers (studio engineers are notoriously close-
at less than 51.00. lipped), programs like Antares' are why many hits from artists like Cher,
nTrack is optimized for the latest dual-core and hyperthreading CPUs, and Green Day, and even Paris Hilton sound so good — or to put it another way,
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n-Track is compatible with a wide variety of 16- and 24-bit single and family favourite.
multichannel soundcards that use PCI, USB or FireWire (IEEE 1394) or audio
interfaces with Asio, WDM, MME, DirectSound or other compatible audio By Lee Rickwood
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The mobile movie phenomenon — content produced on and created with Aesthetically, Gass-Donnelly found a mobile video does have a new
mobile phones — is gaining both popularity and respect among filmmakers identity. Technically, it has some hang-ups too, such as the non-existence of
as it opens new avenues for creative visual output as well as a compelling time code exists on cell phone video. "It has a shallow depth of field, and a
new genre for storytelling. forced perspective to it: he adds. The video shot was 15 frames per second
Media mobility brought together Motorola a n d t h e 2 0 0 6 Toronto (as opposed to film's 24, or video's normal 30), but he was still limited to
International Film Festival. shooting in three minute chunks, owing to the size of the handset's internal
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the Talent Lab MotoFilm Project were released during the Festival after being Cell phone image dimensions are usually 126 x 144 pixels, a far cry from the
processed to make them suitable for big-screen viewing. Each was shown in 1920 x 1080 size of high definition video. It was obviously necessary to blow
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Motorola provided the filmmakers with a Moto° videophone, and service degradation and aspect ratio conversion were not inconsequential.
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stage producer and music video maker, used his video-enabled handsets for couldn't — have video cameras," he says. "Wherever you can take a phone,
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By creating a unique camera rig of five handsets mounted along a block access to subjects and scenery. It's perfect for documentary filmmaking, as
of Styrofoam, Gass-Donnelly was able t o add a panoramic feel to his a cell phone is a lot less intimidating than a camera, and also for guerrilla
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from a height of a few metres. But before the notebook can crash to the
What would you do if you were the world's third biggest personal computer floor, tiny jetpack thrusters emerge from the sides of the machine causing
maker but scant few in North America had even heard o f you? That's it to hover momentarily before gently landing on the floor.
Lenovo's cross to bear.
Some recent history: Lenovo i s the China-based personal computer Len,-
manufacturer that acquired IBM's personal computer division for USS1.25 Murray Wright, President of Lenovo Canada, says the challenge here is
billion in 2005. That acquisition gave Lenovo a couple of valuable brands — similar to Lenovo's problem in the Americas as a whole — combating the
the ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCenter desktop lines — and vaulted it to "Lenovo who?" syndrome.
Number-Three globally, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard. With the 'Think" product line inherited from IBM, Lenovo Canada has held
Taking over those marquees gave Lenovo a considerable and immediate its own, and Wright says Lenovo Canada has maintained a Number-Two
slice o f the North American market, but that's not enough to ensure position in commercial PCs this year. To further bolster its position among
long-term success for two reasons. First, the halo effect of Big Blue heritage business users, in September Lenovo Canada signed a deal with Air Canada
won't linger forever (Lenovo can use the IBM moniker for up to five years). under which Lenovo will supply almost 100 PCs to Air Canada's 19 Maple
The premium IBM brands are vulnerable to depreciation — either real or in Leaf Lounge Business Centres, located here and abroad.
the minds of potential purchasers — into parity products from yet another One of the biggest challenges for Lenovo Canada is that it started with zero
far-east PC builder. retail presence. Earlier this year, it introduced the first new PCs for North
Second, today's PC game is as much about consumer retail as biz2biz, and America under its own brand. Called the Lenovo 3000, it includes desktop
oops — IBM got out of the retail PC market years ago. You just don't see and notebook models, and will be the products the company uses to tackle
ThinkPad or ThinkCenter PCs in electronics and office supply retail stores the retail market. So now, if you go to office supply chains in Canada, you
alongside HP, Acer and the like. So even with IBM's portfolio, Lenovo has no may actually come across Lenovo branded products.
shelf presence where we ordinary citizens shop. By David Tanaka
What is the company doing about that? To provide some answers, Lenovo
Canada recently arranged a media tour to its product development centre
in Raleigh, North Carolina and invited HUB: DL along. Raleigh was chosen, I
Lenovo a force in Asia-Pacific
suspect, because it's home to one of IBM's premium R&D centres — and
Lenovo has retailing smarts and a portfolio of products aimed at the
when the new Lenovo facility is complete, one of Lenovo's premium R&D
consumer market. For example, it is the biggest domestic cell phone
centres as well. The Raleigh venue helped communicate a message about
brand in China and has about 20 per cent of the PC market there. The
continuity from IBM to Lenovo. Continuity in staff, since many of the key
trouble is, it has operated almost exclusively in the Asia-Pacific region,
IBMers that shaped IBM PC product development are now part o f the
mostly in China.
Lenovo crew; as well as continuity of product quality and innovation, as a
You might have seen Legend brand motherboards in Canadian shops
tour of the new product showcase and briefings indicated.
in the late 90s. Legend was the anglicized name of Lianxiang Company,
Deepak Advani, a senior VP and chief marketing officer said that Lenovo's
which has been around since the mid-1980s and morphed into Lenovo,
main marketing slogan i s "the best engineered PCs." To bolster that
or 'the new Legend" in 2003.
claim, Daryl Cromer, who is the executive director of Lenovo's Raleigh
Advanced Technology Center talked about some of the innovations that
flowed out of the centre when it was IBM-run, and continue to flow under
Lenovo's direction.
ThinkPads have long been popular with business users for a few reasons,
not the least of which is the overall physical robustness of the machines.
I've seen IBM reps stand on them, pour water onto the keyboard and fling
them onto the floor. Dog and pony show theatrics for sure, but they
demonstrate some o f the engineering within t h e machines — a n
accelerometer that detects sudden movements and parks the hard drive
heads to avoid HOD crashes, rigid alloy cases that reduce screen flexing
and breakage, and waterproof pans under the keyboard (complete with
drainage holes). Under Lenovo, the latest innovation is the roll cage, a
magnesium alloy skeleton that further protects the electronics within.
To popularize that sort o f engineering prowess, Deepak
Advani developed a viral marketing campaign
called "the Lenovo Tapes" which purport to be
secret tapes showing the latest technologies
Lenovo engineers are working on. These are
entirely fictional but highly entertaining. One
shows a robot arm dropping a Lenovo notebook
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compress and degrade your audio even further. Just make sure your deck
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couple decades ago, retail music CDs are certainly not that today. They better decks support MP3, WMA and AAC playback, and many offer multiple
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MP3 standards. They typically incorporate just three or four really good Still, compressed music CDs aren't today's best option. For that, you need
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or be swapped in and out of your deck, you have maybe a couple hours of The most affordable method is an FM transmitter, a smallish device that
good music. plugs into an iPod-type player and essentially acts as a miniature radio -
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space and you'd still have just a fraction of the A-list songs your buddy Pricier transmitters will also charge your iPod's battery via an additional
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A better answer is to stop allowing those pesky retail CDs in your car in the
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The easiest and most obvious way to do so is to bum a best-of MP3 CO. low-grade fidelity. Moreover, some transmitters work efficiently only when
Considering that a 192Kbps compressed music track sounds virtually they're positioned literally inches from the deck. And none of them will
identical to CO-quality audio when you're zipping along at 80 kph yet is just allow you to control your iPod through your deck.
three to six MB in size, and given that a standard recordable CD will handle A better idea for those with a dash-mounted cassette deck is a cassette
about 700 MB of data, you can count on fitting perhaps a couple hundred adapter. Looking just like a standard cassette but with a short cord that
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