Creating New Map Overlays in StreetDeck StreetDeck, the in-car computer navigation/infotainement software, uses the MapPoint engine for its built-in maps, and then can overlay the Microsoft Live Virtual Earth maps on top of those images. VE supplies several overlays – street images, satellite images, hybrid street name + satellite images. Using the “show extended virtual [...]
Even though we can all “rip” our own personally purchased CDs legally and put them on our digital media players for personal use, this has not not necessarily been the case for DVDs. A high end “DVD Jukebox” product, Kaleidescape, has existed in the market since 2002, and has been in contest with the DVD [...]
Microsoft’s Tellme Purchase Will Have Immediate Impact on its Car Plans | Digital Media Wire: useful article. Here’s a quote: “Remember that little piece of crap called a Zune everyone’s been so quick to bash, and that idiotic digital store that goes with it, the Zune Marketplace? Well they won’t seem like such terrible ideas [...]
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . The $7 TV Network | PBS: The $7 TV Network: Neokast brings multicasting to the masses. Basically it’s a P2P live streaming solution; unlike bitttorrent, which is actually very easy to pull off, this is a live stream. My company, Blue Falcon Networks, perfected (and I’m not exaggerating) a [...]
We’re still in this strange situation where digital inventory – which should be BIGGER than hard inventory – pales in comparison to any hard-media inventory out there. The only practical solution to being able to watch what I want, when I want it, is NetFlix or Blockbuster. Technorati Tags: drm, emerging technology, home theatre, movies
I just saw happy feet today as part of a Warner Brothers employee preview. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend it – I cried for a good 20 minutes of it. I would describe it as a cross between March of the Penguins, Brazil, and Xanadu. Technorati Tags: movies, penguins, xanadu
Damien Stolarz is an inventor, entrepreneur and writer who has spent most of his life making electronic devices talk to each other. Damien is currently the Chief Technology Officer of MP3Car.com, developers of the StreetDeck car PC software and the leading worldwide forum, designer, and online retailer of car PC parts and accessories. In 2004, [...]
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