Author Sidney Sheldon dead February 1, 2007
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Sidney Sheldon, noted author and screenwriter, passed away on Tuesday. He was 89. He died of complications from pneumonia at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.
Sheldon was born on February 17, 1917 in Chicago.
Sheldon is known for his books Rage of Angels, The Other Side of Midnight, Master of the Game and If Tomorrow Comes.
Sheldon was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the greatest number of languages into which his novels were translated, and more than 300m copies were printed. He was also the only writer ever to win both an Oscar, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer in 1947 starring Cary Grant, Shirley Temple and Rudy Vallee, a Tony for one of his Broadway productions, The Redhead, in 1959, and an Edgar Allan Poe award for mystery writing, for The Naked Face.
Seventeen other novels followed; all made the New York Times fiction bestseller list, many at the number one slot. The first to do so was Sheldon’s second book, The Other Side of Midnight (1974). Other titles included Bloodline (1977), If Tomorrow Comes (1986), The Sands of Time (1988), Nothing Lasts Forever (1994), The Sky Is Falling (2000) and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, which appeared in 2004 when its author was approaching 88.
No GMail for Europe February 1, 2007
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German users can’t sign up for “gmail.com” accounts, they get “googlemail.com” instead.
Daniel Giersch, a German-born 32-year old entrepreneur, has just announced that his company received a positive ruling last week from the Harmonization Office supporting his claim that “Gmail” and his own “G-mail” are confusingly similar. G-mail is a German service that provides a “gmail.de” email address, but also allows for a sort of “hybrid mail” system in which documents can be sent electronically, printed out by the company, and delivered in paper format to local addresses.
Giersch has been successful in German courts so far, which is why German users can’t sign up for “gmail.com” accounts, and he has now taken his fight to the EU office that handles trademark disputes for the continent.
Google is certainly interested in using the Gmail name wherever it can—Giersch claims the company offered him $250,000 for it at one point—but it now looks it will be “Google Mail” throughout Europe.
Splashcast February 1, 2007
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SplashCast enables anyone to create streaming media ‘channels’ that combine video, music, photos, narration, text and RSS feeds. These user-generated channels can be played and easily syndicated on any web site, blog, or social network page. When channel owners modify their channel, their content is automatically updated across all the web pages ‘tuned’ to that channel.
Splashcast’s CEO, Michael Berkley, demonstrates how Splashcast’s new services can help get your video and audio the distribution they deserve.
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