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U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders are praising the courage of pro-democracy protesters who succeeded in the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Google Inc. has developed a new service that will allow people in Egypt to post Twitter messages without an internet connection.

Traveling outside Canada can be a killer on your cellphone bill. We’ve seen many Canadians get hit hard with massive bills, some have reached as high as $37,000, a $8,000 and $13,000.
This one is from our friends south of the border who came to our …

1. A full English Breakfast – it must have beans, sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, hash browns and toast. Of course, it should all be knocked back with a cup of tea, but black pudding is optional as far as I’m concerned.

2. Breakfast in Ira…

1. A full English Breakfast – it must have beans, sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, hash browns and toast. Of course, it should all be knocked back with a cup of tea, but black pudding is optional as far as I’m concerned.

2. Breakfast in Ira…

Even before WIND Mobile launched their wireless service other competing carriers had concerns about the amount of foreign ownership they have. Globalive, WIND’s parent company, is heavily backed by Egyptian-based Orascom and was given the green ligh…

Iran’s telecommunications chief has stated that, in two years, the Iranian people will have use a state-controlled internet as a way to enforce Islamic values and combat Western influence. Right. Becau…

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
First Tunisia. Then Egypt. Now Nokia. The twittersphere is again afire with buzz about massive protests. They’re not political this time, but the outcome could be just the same. Can Nokia CEO Stephen Elop survive the revolution?…

If TMZ.com has taught us anything, it’s that there’s a lot of cell phone footage out there. Researchers at Microsoft’s Labs in Egypt are doing something cool with all that content, combining feeds from multiple phones into multi-angle, live broadcasts.

Dubbed Mobicast, the system requires two sets of software, one for the phone and one for the server receiving the footage. When two or more phones are in the same place capturing the same scene, the software synchronizes their clocks so the framing lines up correctly. Image recognition technology on the server then figures out how the footage should physically mesh, using features of the landscape or scene to recognize parts of the images that match. It then blends the images to create a wider, more detailed view of the scene, sort of like PhotoSynth for video (but without the 3-D – for now).

The coolest part, of course, is that Mobicast can do all this in real time, so an event can be captured and broadcast live to the Web by several cameras at once. Users also receive feedback to their phones showing stills of the stitched video with their contributions highlighted, helping them to see how they can better position themselves for the best contribution.

Before going public, there are some issues to sort out, like how to tell if several phones are in the same vicinity filming the same scene (GPS?). Until then, all we can do is keep on filming and dream of the day that celeb scandals break in full 360-degree 3-D.

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I'll admit it—I'm jealous. Some of you have bad-ass home theaters. Maybe one day I will be able to step up to something like one of these 10 home entertainment gems.

The_Foxman:Here is the theater that I built in my basement. Front projection with 100 inch screen. 7.1 surround sound. Base shakers in the theater seating. Lots of fun.
By the way – the house is for sale in the northwest suburbs of Chicago 🙂
kev50027:61″ HD Plasma with 5.1 surround sound, PS3 and Xbox 360
rtkane: 104″ Carada Criterion Screen w/ brilliant white screen material
Panasonic projector (don’t remember model).
Onkyo stereo/speakers/sub
Boston Acoustics center channel
PS3
XBox w/ HD-DVD
Vudu
Tivo HD w/ Digital Cable
sbcale:1080p LCD Projector, 110″ Diagonal screen, 7.1 Surround Sound, 8 Berkline 090 Theater Seats, Xbox 360, PS3, HD DVR, OPPO DV-981HD 1080p High Definition Up-Converting DVD Player, Biometric Figerprint Door Lock.

Did all the work myself, minus the paint and carpet
TonySwank:Epson 6100 Projector
DIY 117″ Screen
Onkyo 805
Polk Speakers
PS3
360
Media Center through custom built desktop
ds10484: Pioneer Elite PRO-151FD 60-inch Kuro Plasma
Pioneer Elite VSX-94TXH AV Receiver
Panamax M5400-PM Line Conditioner
Definitive Technology Speakers:
– 2x Mythos ST
– 1x Mythos Ten
– 2x Mythos Gem XL with Gem Stands
Sony PS3 (Original 60GB with a swapped 500GB 7200RPM HDD)
Nintendo Wii
Motorola PVR
Logitech Harmony One
ShyamlataCynortas:Here is a project we did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGhJNuSkGxE
Venomuss: Egyptian Tomb Home Theater. Screen size 8’X14′.
ara23: 110” Projection with the Panasonic AE2000U
selianth: Our home theater was just written up in Electronic House, actually.
Panasonic PT-AE3000 Projector, SmX Cinema Solutions 129-inch ProLine Screen (2.37:1)
Monitor Audio RS6 Front Speakers (2), Monitor Audio RSFX Rear Speakers (4), Monitor Audio RSLCR Center-Channel Speaker, SVSound PC-13 Ultra Subwoofer
AuraSound Aura Pro Bass Shakers (6), BASH Subwoofer Amplifier, Berkline 13175 Home Theater Seats (6)
Comcast HD DVR, Denon 3808ci Receiver, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3
Logitech Harmony 680 Universal Remote, Logitech Harmony PS3 IR Adapter, X10 Powermid IR Repeater
Thecus N5200 1.5TB RAID5 NAS, Home Theater PC