| JVC GR-D750
The final word: The GR-D750 is a solid little performer that punches well above its weight; offering impressive image quality for entry-level users. If you're on the lookout for a cheap miniDV camera, you could certainly do a lot worse than this. ON PAPER at least, the GR-D750 is the unmistakable runt of the JVC litter. With its low image resolution, rudimentary feature set and cheap looking design, we certainly weren't expecting much; yet it turns out that looks can be very deceiving. From its attractive price tag to its above average video performance, this is one of the best budget offerings we've seen in quite a while. It represents excellent value for money and is a perfect introduction to digital video - provided you can live without the bells and whistles. The GR-D750 is a standard-definition camcorder that records video to miniDV tapes.
Microsoft shuffles online executives
Survey: Google, Microsoft moves make digital marketers nervous [East Bay] Avenue A Razorfish in the Microsoft net [Seattle] deal makers (deel' may'-kerz) n. 1 Closers or brokers of important transactions [Business Journal usage] [Seattle] Google, YuMe partner on ads for Web videos [San Jose] Google in joint venture with Cleveland Clinic [San Jose] .
Qualcomm Makes Next-generation Mobile Internet Accessible With New ...
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) , a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today introduced a new single-chip solution bringing unprecedented multimedia and broadband capabilities to the mass-market tier. The Qualcomm Single Chip(TM) (QSC(TM)) QSC6295(TM), which leverages advanced 45 nanometer CMOS process technology, combines rich multimedia, power-saving innovations and broadband data speeds to redefine the capabilities of the next generation of mainstream handsets. With support for downloads of up to 10.2 Mbps, uploads of up to 5.76 Mbps, compelling multimedia content and integrated Bluetooth/FM/GPS, the QSC6295 is helping drive the migration of popular Internet community and media sharing services to the mobile space.
Children’s Wear Digest morphs into web retailing
As the redesign took shape, Childrens Wear Digest managers had to work with employees to view the Internet as a new channel with different design priorities. We had to teach our photographers to shoot new angles and dimensions for the products we posted on the web, she said. Even though the company did use an outside company to help redesign CWDKids.com, Childrens Wear Digest managers were still very involved in the design decision-making process. You know your customers better than the designer, Schneider said. Childrens Wear Digest is No. 350 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide. Back... .
Reviving the J-School
You do need to understand your audience, your community and the business you are in. You do need to appreciate the role of independent media, grasp the explosion of communications vehicles and value the First Amendment rights of a free press. And you’d benefit enormously from a solid liberal arts underpinning as well as a defined area of expertise. That’s why we have journalism schools. Our role is to prepare better journalists, provide them the tools to enter the marketplace and meet the demands of the industry for ready-to-work graduates that probably can not be met by English majors. Isn’t that what universities do for aspiring doctors, lawyers, chemists, engineers, teachers, philosophers and even businessmen? By the way, Michigan may not have a j-school, but I’ve taught a course in its journalism program, so I’d like to think it does value what we do.
Brooks resigns as COO from Broadstripe
Bill Shreffler was named president and chief executive of Broadstripe in September 2006 and replaced Westbrook, who was named chairman and chief strategic officer of the company. Westbrook resigned from that position in October 2007. Chesterfield-based Broadstripe currently provides voice, video and high-speed Internet data services to 120,000 residential and commercial customers in Maryland, Michigan, Washington and Oregon. Broadstripe is the 111th largest privately-held company in the area with approximately $105 million in 2006 revenue, according to St. Louis Business Journal research. .
From The Economist print edition
MICHAEL VEENSTRA'S 60-berth marina at Goolwa has room for only 30 boats: half the moorings are now on dry land. Over the past 18 months, the water level has dropped and its salt content has risen. Goolwa faces the mouth of the Murray River. Yet drought, climate change and more than 100 years of irrigation have left the Murray in one of its worst crises. The Murray and its main tributary, the Darling, are Australia's longest river-system and the lifeblood of its crop farms. It supplies four of the country's six states. The picture at the Murray's source, 2,500km (1,550 miles) east of Goolwa, is more refreshing, as it bubbles out of a clear spring in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales (NSW). But it grows steadily worse from there. In the past two years, the volume of water flowing into the Murray from the rivers that feed it in NSW and Queensland was the lowest since records began in 1892.
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