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...mainstream, it may prove useful for documenting natural disasters, crimes and sensitive situations in which a tiny cell phone may go unnoticed by prohibitive authorities - and before anyone can put a stop to the video's transmission. The feeds are live, so they can't be censored, but the site relies largely on community filtering to identify and bar users who abuse the technology...
...already got competitors. Flixwagon debuted this month with a similar cell-phone-video broadcasting service. Only a few select phones, including the Nokia N95 smartphone, have Qik or Flixwagon capability, but both sites plan to expand their service to other models, including Apple's iPhone, in the coming months. Another similar site, Kyte.TV, has already partnered with the major music labels and artists like 50 Cent. Kyte has broader, slightly more commercial ambitions, enabling professional videos and photos to be broadcast alongside live cell-phone feeds...
...broadcast quality of cell-phone video on these sites is still imperfect - it's often grainy, occasionally blurry and nearly always a step below video-camera clarity. Sometimes videos freeze and audio is muffled. For those committed to higher-quality images, Eye-Fi sells a wi-fi-enabled SD memory card for digital still cameras that stores your photos and uploads them automatically via a wireless network to your home computer or to the online photo-sharing site of your choice. (The technology has surprising advantages: in June, a camera thief in Florida inadvertently turned himself in when the images...
...Herzegovina was more the foreman than the architect of the worst massacres in Europe since World War II: the siege of Sarajevo, which killed at least 10,000 people, and the slaughter at Srebrenica, which killed more than 7,000 men, some of whose bodies had filled the site at Glogova. It was former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in jail in 2006, who had hatched and orchestrated the overall plan for the ethnic cleansing and violent division of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...After his Sderot trip, Obama is expected to don a yarmulke in Jerusalem on Wednesday night and visit the Western Wall, Judaism's most holy site. Many Jews believe that a prayer written on a scrap of paper and placed in the cracks of the ancient wall will be answered, and Obama is unlikely to resist the opportunity to solicit a celestial bump for his election campaign. This may lead to a predicament for the Almighty, since Senator McCain, made a similar pilgrimage to the Western Wall several months ago. The candidates may not win divine intercession, but both...