Magical things happen once upon a blue Moon. And this Thursday we get a chance to find out just what those magical things as we watch the rare lunar event coincide New Years Eve.
Blue Moon is the term applied to the second full Moon in a calendar month. It’s an event that occurs roughly every two and a half years. This Thursday’s blue Moon is far rarer than that though, because it’s happening right on New Years Eve-a coincidence that happens only about once in every twenty years.
Dont know if you will be able to see this from the UK but it will be worth a look
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The European Commission (EC) has accused six TV and monitor companies of running a cartel in the cathode-ray tube (CRT) market, charging the companies after a two-year long investigation.
The companies in question are Philips, LG Electronics, Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Matsushita, Samsung and Toshiba .
The complaint is that the manufacturers colluded in an effort to keep CRT screen prices artificially high in the midst of falling demand. CRT TVs and monitors have almost completely left the market, at least in western Europe, and the Japanese and North American markets, replaced by thinner LCD sets.
However, the CRT sets are “still widely used in Southern and Eastern Europe, especially for TVs,” as well as “still made for a couple of emerging markets,” says EC spokesperson Jonathan Todd.
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Sharkoon brought out there SATA HDD Dock just over a year ago, and now it’s making the leap to USB 3.0 , meaning that whatever SATA hard drive you slam down into it can be connected to your PC at USB 3.0 speeds. ‘Course, you’ll need a PC that’s actually up to that very task, so it makes sense that the company is simultaneously launching a PCI expansion card that adds USB 3.0 capabilities to any desktop made in the last decade..
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Myka has launched the Myka ION media center set-top box this weekend, giving users a one-stop shop for Internet video services and video playback via your HDTV.
The ION has an Intel Atom 1.6Ghz Processor 330,a NVIDIA ION Graphics Processor, as well as 4GB of RAM, ten USB 2.0 ports, VGA / DVI / HDMI outputs, an eSATA connector and Ethernet.
“Technology has finally caught up with what consumers want out of Internet video services,” said Myka President Dan Lovy. “They want to be freed from their computers and watch the growing variety of Web video content on their large-screen, high-definition living room TVs. And they want to do it without a lot of hassle and without video quality suffering.
You can add a Blu-ray drive, HDD and Wi-Fi module, but that will increase the price significantly.
Prices start at $379 USD.
This will be interesting when it hits the uk
the original via Afterdawn
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