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A USB socket is the must-have TV accessory in North Korea

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Fascinating (and sobering) article on watching television in North Korea from New Focus International: The second feature is miniaturization. Ms Kim said that in order not to be caught by surveillance officers, people prefer small, portable TVs that are easy to hide. She said that the latest must-have item is a miniature TV with a USB socket. Kim Yoon-suk, who escaped North Korea six months ago, said, “Recently, people have begun trading USBs loaded with episodes of South Korean TV dramas. That’s because USB sticks are easier to hide than CDs. When I watch dramas on a miniature TV with

Microsoft’s Live Mesh: Some Thoughts

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So last night (or 5am for us Brit’s, what great timing) Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie unveiled Live Mesh, the 10,000 user beta of some of the ideas talked about at Mix08. In essence this is the start of Microsoft’s journey into cloud computing and ‘Somethng-as-a-Service’ facilities. The beta is now currently full up, but those signed up to will get an XP/Vista client, access to 5gb of online storage, and sync between desktop PC’s and the online ‘Live desktop.’ Currently file and folder sync is available – drop a file in any one device into the live folder and it is

Flickring at 25fps – Video Crashes the Still Party

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Techcrunch is reporting (and demoing) Flickr Video. Short summary; Pro users have the ability to upload a video into their account, as long as they are under 90 seconds and 150 mb. I’ve not played around with it yet, but I’m skeptical that the Flickr community actually want this. I have to assume the Flickr team has thought (and fought?) long and hard over this one. The explosion of mobile video in the last six months (Seesmic, Qik, Bambuser, etc) must have focused them on the task at hand, but if they have been plannig this for a while (as