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Nice pic like the hair and color.

Girls Got Rhythm - AC/DC

Hell it got me for 12 posts.. and you feel sad.

Well I am sorry if I did not see your post. When and were did you post it?

Confirming our belief that some people are just "bad with computers," a boy named Joe Falciatano III from Pulaski, New York, seems to have simply the worst luck ever -- and some think it could be do to an overly magnetized touch. While using PCs at this elementary school, Joe -- who dubbed himself "Magneto Man" -- found that every system he laid his hands on went totally haywire. Only after a teacher suggested he use a grounded, anti-static wrist strap did the systems experience relief from his Geek Squad-inducing grasp. Apparently, the boy has also disrupted slide show presentations and caused his Xbox to freeze repeatedly. Though tests have been run on Joe, there's still no conclusive evidence about the source of the problem, though at least one electricity expert said the cause could be his over-insulated shoes. Maybe, but we won't be surprised when he forms an army of mutant super-villains and tries to take control of the White House. Check the video after the break for the whole report. And the guy testing him is a ass. No such thing has human magnetism or electric. Hell I got it I can't wear a watch. Every battery powered watch I put on dies in 2 days. Everyone has electrical charges in their body just some have more. This tester guy needs to get a new job cause he sure sucks at this one. Read about it HERE

Some people are born with a chip on their shoulder, but Jonathan Oxer's chip is surgically embedded in his left arm. The 37-year-old from Melbourne's outer-east never has to worry about forgetting his keys because the tiny chip, typically used to tag pets, opens his front door. A swipe of his arm under a small scanner identifies Oxer with the house computer, which then unlocks the door. But that's just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's biggest nerd, whose entire house is connected to a central processor and can be controlled remotely via a computer or mobile phone. Teeming with technology, the abode conjures up images of The Jetsons but, much to the surprise of visitors, the house looks no less ordinary than a typical suburban dwelling. Wires, switches and gizmos are concealed, true to Oxer's philosophy of "having everything work invisibly". A magnetic switch installed inside his letterbox detects when mail is inserted and occupants are notified via either the house computer, email or SMS. The garden irrigation system, too, is fully automated and computer-controlled. Oxer's doorbell doesn't ring - instead, button presses are detected by the computer, which then activates a camera to stream video to TVs around the house showing who is at the door. If nobody is home, a picture message is sent to Oxer's mobile and he can choose to let the person in remotely. Inside, curtains, doors, lights and windows are all wired up so they can be controlled electronically. "You can go to bed and realise that you left the light on at the other end of the house and be able to turn it off without getting out of bed, using an interface on a mobile phone or using a telephone keypad," said Oxer. "You can do things like issue a single command when you leave the house to tell it to go into lock mode and know that every single door is locked, all the curtains are closed and all the windows are closed, without checking them individually." In the bathroom, lights and curtains are computer controlled and a keypad on the wall lets Oxer set the water temperature. Issuing the "shower" command turns all the lights on, closes the windows and curtains and sets the water temperature to 41C. Oxer, who recently retired as head of the Linux Australia community group, holds down a full-time job as technical director of Internet Vision Technologies, which he formed in 2000. He said the entire home automation project cost him "a couple of thousand dollars" because he did most of the work himself. Damn I should make my house like this. I have thought about it at times and controlling it from a laptop but never thought about from a embedded microchip...lol. Full Story HERE

Yahoo Inc. has extended a deadline for nominating candidates to its board, giving the struggling Internet pioneer more time to search for a white knight to help it fight off an unwanted takeover bid from Microsoft Corp. The announcement Wednesday comes amid published reports that Yahoo has stepped up discussions with Time Warner Inc. about acquiring or forming a joint venture with its AOL online unit to fend off the world's largest software company. Microsoft's bid, originally valued at $44.6 billion, or $31 per share, was made public Feb. 1. Yahoo has rejected the offer as too low, and it was expected Microsoft would nominate its own slate to the Yahoo board to push the deal through. Yahoo said the deadline for nominations would be 10 days after it announces the date of its annual shareholder meeting. The previous deadline was March 14. In a statement, Yahoo said the extension would allow its board "to continue to explore all of its strategic alternatives for maximizing value for stockholders without the distraction of a proxy contest." Yahoo and AOL declined comment on the reports Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that Yahoo and Time Warner have stepped up discussions over AOL. One scenario calls for Yahoo to acquire AOL outright with Time Warner taking a minority stake in the combined company, the Journal reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The Times, citing unnamed people close to Yahoo, said a Yahoo-AOL combination has the backing of Google Inc., which owns 5 percent of AOL LLC. and fears a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo. A Yahoo-AOL combination would create a stronger advertising-driven business that could ultimately compete with Internet search and advertising leader Google. Both AOL and Yahoo have strengths in emerging technologies for targeting ads based on users' Web surfing patterns, an approach that Google so far has shunned in favor of contextual, keyword-based placements. Yahoo also has been in discussions media conglomerate News Corp., the owner of the popular online hangout MySpace, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. Yahoo and Time Warner have talked about a combination before, but the idea was rejected in 2005 because Time Warner at the time insisted that it retain majority ownership in the AOL unit, two people close to those discussions told the AP. And you all thought it was over. Seems that big bully Microsoft really wants Yahoo. I hope AOL and Yahoo join forces to fight off this take over. Source HERE

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails made headlines again this week as he released his new, four-part instrumental album Ghosts I-IV, at a variety of price points, including a $300 super-deluxe package. He's also giving away Ghosts I at no charge, even throwing the tracks up on The Pirate Bay for anyone to download. And it appears to be working quite well for Reznor, who has managed to sell all 2,500 copies of his $300 package without major label backing or much in the way of splashy marketing. If Reznor's earlier experiments in digital distribution failed to recoup their costs, he's clearly learned his lesson: grossing $750,000 in the space of three days isn't a bad haul for any businessperson. With Ghosts, Reznor had some obvious advantages. NiN is a better-known brand with a devoted following, and Reznor's strategy of using multiple price points made his music easily accessible to fans. Those who wished to pay nothing could download a free version of Ghosts I. For $5, a digital version of all four albums was available, and for only $10, fans could get all the music on CD along with an immediate digital download. $75 and $300 deluxe versions were also made available and include things like a Blu-ray disc, a DVD of the multitrack audio files from the project, videos, deluxe packaging, and more. Nice to see his second attempt at this was quite a success not like his first attempt which was a total bomb. Way to go Trent glad to see Music is not all about the RIAA. Full Story HERE

FROM MIX 08 - At last, we'll all be able to see "Standards mode" for itself, and whether the new default operating mode for Internet Explorer truly adheres to written W3C standards as Microsoft now says it has bound its browser to do. There's a lot of activity surrounding the public release of Beta 1 of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8...and we mean that quite literally. While its general appearance is not in as stark a contrast with its predecessor as IE7 was from IE6, there is one prominent feature about it that developers such as Scott Guthrie were proud to show off this morning in Las Vegas: It's called "activities." In a similar sense to how right-clicking on an object brings up a list of commands, in what has been called the "context menu" or, from time to time, the "actions menu," IE8 has come up with a way for content suppliers outside of an active Web site to supply functionality to terms inside of a Web page. It's through an activities menu which is loaded in advance into IE8 using an XML-based template. Users can then right-click on content from anywhere to see a list of services that may pertain to it, or they can choose those same services from a new Activities button on the IE8 "An example could be that you are on the Web site of a local dealer and are interested in buying something there," writes Microsoft architect and evangelist Alexander Strauss on his personal blog this morning. "Unfortunately this dealer has no delivery service and also does not have a store locator. So in that case you would usually take the address and get directions using a mapping tool of your choice. Now you could do the same with a mapping activity. But now the big difference is that you can do it in the context of the dealers Web page. Just mark the address, right-click, and choose the mapping activity of your choice." Continuing the tradition of "embrace and extend," IE8 also borrows a few features made popular by other browsers, albeit renamed. WebSlices, for instance, provides a means for serving up a small chunk of content either as a subordinate part of another Web page, or through a perpetual link. That link can reside in IE8's newly renamed "Favorites Bar," which now not only holds bookmarked pages but also general shortcuts to everyday files. (Mac users will note a similar feature in the Safari browser called WebClips.) The Phishing Filter has reportedly been expanded to become the Safety Filter, and promises to encompass other possible malware threats. And IE8 has now been endowed with an automatic crash recovery (ACR) system that can pull content back up after a restart or reboot. As a Microsoft white paper published just today reveals (PDF available here), the new system won't just pull up the lost Web page, but anything you may have been typing into that page at the time the browser or system crashed. "Contextual work is 'soft work' that is manifested in the state of the browser," the white paper reads. "It may not be as painful to lose this type of work, but it is nevertheless frustrating when it happens...The ACR feature will help prevent contextual and compositional work loss in the unlikely event of a crash, hang, or an accidental application closure." You can get it for Vista HERE You can get it for XP HERE Being a beta tester for Microsoft products I got to say this is still a bit buggy I think to actually release. I do however like the Activities buttons for added things like highlighted words and such. But you be the judge and give it a whirl. I hope it becomes better then IE 7 which I think is a joke for a browser. Source HERE

FROM MIX 08 - While Silverlight was first sprung upon the public as a distributed graphics program for the Web, Microsoft is now expanding it as many thought it might, into an all-purpose, Web-based, cross-platform extension of the .NET Framework. At one level, it's the dream of distributed software developers of decades ago: a rich programming environment with too many controls to list all in one page, the capacity to deploy applications cross-platform, and the flexibility for the logic to use the programming language of the developer's choice. We knew things were headed this way; we were just never certain of when. Today, Silverlight 2 has entered the public Beta 1 stage, along with its development toolkit for Visual Studio 2008. The runtime platform may be downloaded here. As Silverlight product manager Brian Goldfarb told BetaNews this afternoon, the company is moving towards enabling the runtime graphics platform to be programmable using the general concept of "managed code," as opposed to the choice of either C# or Visual Basic to which Silverlight 1.1 was limited. "Whatever language, Microsoft doesn't care, it's just code," he told us. With the right tweaks, Goldfarb added, one can make any .NET control work with Silverlight 2. Thus any control designed for use with the Windows Presentation Foundation for general applications, has the ability -- theoretically at least -- to work with the new Silverlight. That said, Goldfarb later remarked that current .NET controls should be tailored for use with Silverlight, pointing to the possibility that some developers may need to make "the right tweaks" one way or the other. We asked him whether he expects the Silverlight runtime to become as ubiquitous as Adobe's Flash, its key competitor, and arguably the dominant player in this field. "It's not a question of if," he responded, "it's a question of when. And when is coming soon." While Microsoft's own Web services use some degree of Flash today, every new rich Web application it develops from here on out will be based on Silverlight. That said, the company wants to be careful not to give the appearance that it's pushing customers into deploying Silverlight, the way it once appeared to be pushing them to use Internet Explorer. Consumers will never be forced into installing Silverlight, Goldfarb promised, not due to the need to respond to someone's anti-competition findings, but out of its own principles. "Consumers should want to install Silverlight to get these great experiences," he said. For now, Silverlight 1.0 will continue to be deployed on the company's own servers, though it plans to make the switch the moment 2.0 is officially released. One exception to the rule may come during the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where Microsoft is scheduled to partner with NBC Sports in the delivery of online content for the US market. Goldfarb left the door open for the Olympics site to require the Silverlight 2 beta platform. This is good news for web creators everywhere. Being a cross platform for Net Frame will allow us to make any Net control work with Silverlight. I have been trying out 1.0 and got to say 2.0 sounds promising. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Full Story HERE

Agatha Christie Under The Sun

Well since Odie is not a regular and the strip is based on Garfield this is wack and not funny in my opinion.

The press conference was hosted by Eddie Trunk, who can be heard on XM’s Boneyard Channel 41, VH-1 Classic and is syndicated throughout the nation. In attendance was Bret Michaels, front man of Poison, all of Warrant featuring Jani Lane, along with members of Cinderella, LA Guns, Enuf Z Nuff, Beautiful Creatures, Night Ranger, XYZ, Pretty Boy Floyd, Vain, and Lynch Mob. The Rocklahoma Press Conference was heard live on XM’s Boneyard Channel 41, as well as streamed on Wyldside Radio. The initial lineup on the main stage is as follows: Thursday (Pre Party for those who have bought three day tickets) Bret Michaels, LA Guns featuring Tracii Guns, Enuf Z Nuff, Vain, House of Lords and Jet Boy. Friday: XYZ, Armored Saint, Kingdom Come, Night Ranger, TBA, Triumph and TBA. Saturday: Pretty Boy Floyd, Every Mother’s Nightmare, Tora Tora, Black N Blue, Trixter, Kix, Warrant featuring Jani Lane and Cinderella Sunday: Axe, Beautiful Creatures, Zebra, Lynch Mob, TBA, Tesla and TBA Additional bands on the main stage will be added in the upcoming weeks. Lineup and bands are subject to change. Two side stages adjacent to the main stage feature over twenty-eight regional artists on each stage. The Retrospect Records stage includes the following bands: Jester, Sidekixx, Pair-A-Dice, Front Runner, Tommy Had a Vision, Valor, Gypsy Blue, Whitefoxx, Blue Tiger, Wild August, Messang, Paul Shortino, Mariah, Warryor, Bad Candy, Lorraine, Nasty Nasty, Real Steel, Cuttlass, Vyper, Mass, Bad Candy, Oney, Strikeforce, Herazz, Reckless, Heartless, Ron Keel, Warryor and Alibi. The other stage has Texas Hippie Coalition, Karnevil featuring Dario Lorina, Dirty Penny, Crooked X, Gypsy Pistoleros, Sweet FA, Banshee, Gods of Kansas, Lipstick Magazine, Pownd, Shadowside, Mindflow, Warmachine, Asphalt Valentine, Krucible featuring Lance King. Rocklahoma is the world’s largest Rock Festival of its type featuring bands from the eighties. Rocklahoma has already sold tickets from all fifty states and throughout Canada and Europe. Already got my tickets and going. What a 4 day event it will be.

Look What The Cat Dragged In - Poison

Give me a hint it has to due with India or Islam? Looks familiar but hell I play way to many games to remember.

She is hot MasterPhW but what is that streak on your chin. You call that a beard/gotee or something?

Man what sad news indeed. I have played D&D since 1979 and got to say it is one of the best role playing games out there. Easy to get engulfed in. Lots of time and money spent on books by me. You will be missed Gary.

The term "latecomer" is a particularly uncomfortable one for AMD. So for its 45 nm CPU unveiling at CeBIT in Hannover today, the company had to make the case that, despite being later, Shanghai and Deneb will be technologically better. It's now an unavoidable asterisk in AMD's history: Intel introduced its first 45 nm CPUs to consumers last fall. So the fanfare accompanying the demonstration of AMD's first 45 nm quad-core CPUs just today at CeBIT in Hannover can't come from the usual source. It's following up, and it has to catch up fast, but it won't have the full arsenal of process technologies that Intel is already putting to use. One of the key differentiators between AMD and Intel process technology continues to be their choice of substrates. Years ago, Intel made a conscious choice to stick with ordinary CMOS, or "bulk silicon," while AMD introduced an insulating layer in its base wafer, for what's called silicon-on-insulator (SOI). That reduced power leakage considerably already, which is one of the key benefits of HK+MG. But that benefit is best appreciated for a bulk silicon substrate, which arguably needs it most, Silcott remarked. "Because we use silicon-on-insulator substrates as opposed to bulk silicon that Intel uses," he said, "SOI gives us a certain amount of advantages at a performance-per-watt level...as well as other things that we do in terms of our design and our process. [so] we don't feel like we're going to be lacking by not having high-k+metal gate right away." Intel has claimed it made the choice to stick with bulk silicon because it doesn't scale as well at smaller lithography levels, it's too costly to implement for the benefits it produces, and that it actually introduces a problem at smaller scales: With a CPU's SOI supporting a higher thermal resistance, it requires a higher operating temperature, according to Intel's explanation. Typically that implies higher power consumption. Well a better late then ever. I still like AMD and recommend them all the time to my customers but Intel sure is putting the hurt on them lately. So my question to you is AMD on the way out? Full story HERE

Gamasutra's list of best selling games this week sees Sins of a Solar Empire in the number one slot, beating out Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and WoW: The Burning Crusade. The Realtime Strategy/4X game was released on February 4, and has already received critical acclaim from several video game review publications. What has won it such praise is its unique combination of 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) civilization management gameplay with the battle speed of a RTS, and its sheer size, which creates an immersive effect heretofore unseen in strategy games. Players take control of one of three races and attempt to dominate the galaxy through diplomatic relations, economic acumen, and military superiority. The game's story represents each of the three races as a sort of dynasty: one which was formerly in control of the galaxy but was wiped out (and then came back,) the "current" one which restored order after the former empire, and one which is a nation exiled from relations with the current empire. Putting out such a successful game is an admirable feat when considering the company's main focus is not gaming. Stardock began as an applications provider for the OS/2 platform, and later found success in the skinning and customizing of Windows with its WindowBlinds skinning tools and Object Desktop accessory suite, which remains the company's chief products. Compounding the impact of this feat is the size of Stardock when compared against whom it beat in sales. With under 50 employees, Stardock's product bested Activision/Blizzard, which has 3,000+ employees, and EA which has over 9,000. Developers of Sins of a Solar Empire, Canada's Ironclad Games, is a group of only nine programmers and designers who had formerly worked for the following: Sierra Studios, Take2 Interactive / Rockstar Games, Disney Interactive, TNT Television, The Cartoon Network, and Mattel. By comparison, Infinity Ward, developers of the Call of Duty series which took second place behind Sins has a team of over 70. Anyone here played this yet? I am not a big turn based game fan but still it is big news do knock off something as big as COD 4. Source HERE

Confirming earlier reports, Sony Computer Entertainment's Phil Harrison has indeed taken a job with Infogrames, owners of the Atari brand. Harrison stepped down from SCE at the end of last month. Industry insiders have speculated that his departure had a lot to do with Sony's failure to fully embrace social gaming, ceding control of the video game market to Microsoft and Nintendo. At Sony, Harrison was involved in the launch teams for all of the PlayStation consoles, and had served in a number of roles over his tenure. He has held management positions in both the company's European and North American divisions, most recently as president of SCE Worldwide Studios. With Infogrames, he will assume the role of president, and would roughly have the same duties as his former job. He will oversee software development and its students, as well as attract new blood to the company. It would not be all that surprising if Harrison uses his long tenure with Sony and deep connections within the company to poach talent from the Japanese company. Harrison would also gain a seat on the board of directors for the French company as well, it said in a statement. "This is the perfect time to join Infogrames and help shape the future of Atari; one of the industry's legendary brands," Harrison said. "As the game business moves rapidly online I believe we have an outstanding opportunity to create amazing network game and community experiences for players the world over." The hiring of Harrison marks Infogrames' second big hire in as many months -- in February, it named former EA executive David Gardner as its CEO. Nice maybe now Atari will be back in the limelight. Source HERE

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Today, Dell announced the availability of its Latitude XFR D630, a ruggedly designed notebook meant to serve as competition to Panasonic's Toughbook. Though it cannot claim to have made the strongest nor first rugged laptops, Panasonic's Toughbook line of computers undoubtedly is the most recognizable rugged laptop brand on the market today. Dell, however looks to be moving in on the territory, by making direct challenges to Panasonic's performance. Dell's Latitude XFR D630 meets the oft-cited MIL-STD 810F, or the Department of Defense-certified standard of toughness. MIL-STD is a series of specifications that cover resistance to different conditions including pressure, temperature, and humidity variance, fungus, fog, sand, dust, acceleration, shock and even gunfire. Dell XFR rugged notebooks The new notebook line features a sealed keyboard, shock-mounted solid state drive, a 14.1" widescreen LCD display designed for outdoor use by outputting 500 nits (sRGB standard luminance is 80 nits, most LCD displays go up to 300), and ExpressCharge batteries, which Dell claims can achieve an 80% or greater charge in 60 minutes. The XFR directly challenges Panasonic's CF-30 in its initial marketing push, claiming 23% greater performance with its 2.2 GHz Intel Core2 Duo T7500 processor against Panasonic's Intel Core2 Duo L2400 running at 1.66 GHz. Availability of the XFR begins today, starting at $3,899. Impressive but I wonder what the true battery life is going to be with the up to 500 nits on the display. Though the express charge is nice it is really works and holds. I have a toughbook and got to say on of the best laptops I own. Source HERE

When it comes to the Internet, no matter how overt and honest people are, we don’t want our privacy to be invaded. While President Bush may defend domestic eavesdropping, it doesn’t mean you should. Things have gone from bad to worse - why, we can’t even send an email without worrying about it being intercepted. Every site we visit, every facebook or hotmail login, every search in a browser - it’s all recorded, logged and saved in giant datastore farms, surreptitiously laying-in-wait for that one day where it’s all dragged out and thrown back in our faces. It’s anyone’s guess who’ll be granted access to this datamine down the road. An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables — e-mails, documents, pictures, Web browsing, voice-over-Internet phone conversations, everything — was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room,” - Mark Klein, a 20-year veteran for AT&T, referring to the sixth floor (secret room) in which the U.S. Government & NSA have unconditional access. According to Mr. Klein, there are 15 - 20 more buildings just like it across America, set up the same way. This is just the tip of the iceberg - there aren’t many whistleblowers like Klein that “leak” sensitive information such as this. Whilst there’s not much one can do about Big Brother™ and his Orwellian cohorts from videotaping you at the local convenience store, or taking pictures of your licence plate at every street corner, or even RFIDing your next born - the least we can do is not let it happen to us in our own living room. Here are a few tips for total anonymity within the Internet. * Web Surfing * Anonymous Chat * Anonymous email * Blog Anonymously * Anonymous Hosting * All-in-one Anonymity I found this a very refreshing read and lots of good information about Anonymous tools out there. We all want to be safer on the web and not give Big Brother too much info on us. I have used Tor and VPN tunneling in the past. Tunneling worked well but tends to slow down the connection a bit. I hear that the pay tunneling sites are much faster but have never purchased on as of yet, maybe I will and report back on it, on a later date. But still much to learn and read here check it out. Full Story HERE

Filtering all Internet traffic to look for signs of illicit file-swapping has been a hugely controversial idea, criticized on grounds of privacy, efficacy, cost, and long-standing "safe harbor" principles that apply to network operators such as ISPs and phone companies. But a new study out from UK media lawyers Wiggin suggests that, if it works, such filtering could actually curtail "digital piracy" by 70 percent. The finding is of special relevance in the UK, where some form of ISP filtering is currently being considered as a way to deal with the illegal trading of copyrighted material. ISPs and content owners are engaged in a voluntary negotiation over how to address the problem, but the UK government has indicated that it will legislate in April 2009 if no agreement is reached by then. The government appears to be planning something similar to the French system, which is developing a "three strikes" approach to notifying and then blocking offenders. Wiggin commissioned the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey, which found that 70 percent of all people polled said they would stop illegally sharing files if their ISP notified them in some way that it had detected the practice. When broken down by age group, an unexpected trend emerges: teenagers are generally more likely to change their behavior than older Internet users. The survey showed that people would also stop sharing files if they felt that the chance of being prosecuted was higher, but that 68 percent of all users think it is "very unlikely I will be caught." Even if more stories about P2P prosecutions find their way into the mainstream press, half of all users said they would continue to share files because they perceive the total risk to be quite small. A notice system that required only a letter or a phone call instead of a full-blown legal proceeding could clearly operate more quickly and more widely, and seems to have the best chance of altering behavior. Whether ISP filtering can work, and can do so while avoiding false positives and maintaining user privacy, remains an open question, and there's still debate over the idea that ISPs should (as a matter of policy) become enforcers of the copyrights for a specific industry segment. Still, the new survey suggests that if these problems can somehow be overcome, ISP notification might well have a better chance of changing behavior than legal action alone. Ok I can speak from past experiences that this did slow me down for awhile. But did it stop me no. All it caused me to do was find more secure less watched avenues to get my fix of warez. This might work on the average say Kazaa or Limewire user but that is about all. So I find this percentage a bit over the top. Source HERE

"We enthusiastically support QTRAX as an innovative method for reclaiming rights and revenues from music misappropriated by worldwide P2P networks, while at the same time providing users with a superior legal and free net- based music experience," said Martin Bandier, Chairman and CEO, Sony/ATV Music Publishing. "This agreement expands upon our original agreement with QTRAX and represents another example of Sony/ATV's commitment to securing our songwriters' rights in the digital space." QTRAX (www.QTRAX.com) is the world's first legal and free peer-to-peer (P2P) music service. QTRAX showcases an innovative ad-supported delivery model that easily directs revenue back to artists and rights holders. QTRAX is available for browsing now and soon will provide fans with access to a colorful and diverse catalog with millions of high-quality digital music files representing the broadest artist-based fan-directed array of products available anywhere. Based in New York City, QTRAX is a subsidiary of Brilliant Technologies Corporation BLLN, a publicly traded technology holding company. Will I am not a big fan of Sony Corporation I do think this is a step in the right direction upon their part. Anyway for users to hear and share new music is a good thing. I have used QTRAX in the past and will most likely use them in the future. Full Story HERE