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Colleen
ColleenMusician In this technologically advancing age, French musician Colleen has released several CDs without ever stepping into a recording studio. She began her musical career in a band, but after it broke up she began to record using her computer and thousands of CDs she borrowed from Parisian... Read more |
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Cnet Networks Inc
CNET NETWORKS INC. CNET Networks Inc. is a leading provider of technology and e-commerce news and information across several media, including the Internet, television, radio, and print. Its target audiences include both consumers and businesses, and the company has created online marketplaces for... Read more |
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Personal computers
Computers, Personal In 1976, the Cray-1 supercomputer was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. It was then the fastest computer in the world, performing 160 million floating-point operations per second. The computer cost 8.8 million dollars and generated so much heat that it... Read more |
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optical disk
optical disk any of a variety of information storage disks that are played or read using a laser . Optical disks include compact discs (CDs and CD-ROMs), laser discs (see videodisc ), and digital versatile discs (or digital video discs; DVDs and DVD-ROMs). WORM [ W rite O nce/ R ead M any]... Read more |
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Josh Groban
Groban, Josh February 27, 1981 • Los Angeles, California Singer Josh Groban is not a typical twenty-something pop singer, and record store owners have had a tough time deciding just what bin to put his CDs in. Many of his songs are contemporary romantic ballads, but Groban, who is... Read more |
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Video equipment industry
DVD Player Digital video disk or digital versatile disk (DVD) is a type of optical data storage medium capable of holding up to 17 giga-bytes (GB) of information. First introduced during the mid-1990s, they were developed as an improved form of compact disk (CD) technology.... Read more |
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Missy Elliott
Missy ElliottRap musician, music producer Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott is a phenomenon. She did not merely take the traditionally male-dominated recording industry by storm as a singer, songwriter, arranger, producer, and head of her own label, she did so in one of the most macho, testosterone-laden... Read more |
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Nimbus CD International Inc
Nimbus CD International, Inc. State Route 629Guildford FarmRuckersville, Virginia 22968U.S.A.(804) 985-1100Fax: (804) 985-2893 Public Company Founded: 1982Sales: $118.2 million (1996)Employees: 871Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 3695 Blank Computer Software Tapes and Disks; Blank Recording... Read more |
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Puddle of Mudd
Puddle of Mudd Rock group The history of Puddle of Mudd's rise to popularity could provide the definition of being in the right place at the right time and with the right talent. Their major label debut album, Come Clean, sold more than 100,000 copies in its first week of... Read more |
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compact disc
compact disc (CD), a small plastic disc used for the storage of digital data. As originally developed for audio systems, the sound signal is sampled at a rate of 44,100 times a second, then each sample is measured and digitally encoded on the 4 3/4 in (12 cm) disc as a series of microscopic pits... Read more |
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Jekyll and Hyde
...is beloved by Jekyll. Notable songs: This Is the Moment; A New Life; Someone Like You. Because the score had already been recorded and released, selling more than two hundred thousand CDs, the negative reviews did not dampen business, and the musical... |
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associate program
...other company's site. For example, the first company may sell CDs and the other may run a GURU SITE for some category of music...overwhelmed with the process of tracking clicks. This has led to a new type of company, the CLICK INTERMEDIARY, which manages the... |
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principal
...employers assume 80 percent of its cost for their workers.” (New York Times; July 1, 1994.)Substituting principle for principal is perhaps even more common—e.g.: “Audio CDs are a principle [read principal] source of material for making... |
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New CDS Requirements For Book-Entry-Only Issuers.
...use the book-entry-only (BEO) services1 provided by CDS to enter into a new agreement (the BEO Securities Services Agreement) with CDS to make BEO issues eligible for deposit at CDS and to maintain the eligibility of securities of an issuer... |
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New CDS Version 3 Data Security Standards to be Launched.
...2010-Certified Digital Security: New CDS Version 3 Data Security Standards to...20042010 Certified Digital Security (CDS) will unveil its breakthrough Version...Version 1 and 2 predecessors. By becoming CDS approved, organisations and the contractors... |
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Libraries to get 13,000 new CDs.(News)
...And they are going to be nice brand new CDs." According to the agreement, if...expected to be popular, they can sell the CDs, Harrop said. "They can be sold as...to the music program or to buy other CDs," he said. In the settlement, music... |
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Copernic Desktop Search is First to Fully Support Mozilla Firefox Browser; Up...
...announced the availability of a new and improved version (1.2...winning Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) product that fully supports the Mozilla Firefox Web browser. CDS 1.2 also features up to 200...Spanish and Italian content. "CDS continues to get rave ... |
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ISDA unveils new CDS protocol.(International Swaps and Derivatives...
...will be incorporated into the new set of credit derivative definitions...in the credit default swap (CDS) market, incorporation of a...off their balance sheets, the CDS market has grown to encompass...the total notional size of the CDS market at more than ... |
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S&P Launches New CDS Indices.(Week on the Street)(credit default...
...Wednesday unveiled a trio of new indices aimed at measuring the...of a basket of single-name CDS. The first type of calculation...calculate the performance of each CDS basket on a continuous basis. "With the launch of the S&P CDS US Indices, S&P is ... |
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Fonseka new CDS with wide powers
...Commander Sarath Fonseka as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) with wide powers from Wednesday...appoint General Fonseka as the CDS soon after the LTTE was militarily...General Fonseka is the first CDS to be appointed after the new ... |
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USA: MOODY'S: NEW CDS INDEX INDICATES INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON INSURERS STILL...
...recently launched Global Insurance CDS Index (MDYGIX) provides a window...the rating agency says in a new report. The index will serve...gap, or difference between the CDS-implied ratings and Moody...three notches, implying that the CDS market has a more ... |
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MOODY'S: NEW CDS INDEX INDICATES INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON INSURERS STILL MORE...
...recently launched Global Insurance CDS Index (MDYGIX) provides a window...the rating agency says in a new report. The index will serve...gap, or difference between the CDS-implied ratings and Moody...three notches, implying that the CDS market has a more ... |
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Reaction mixed to new CDs that invest in stock market
NEW YORK Some call it a bold, innovative...Index Investment" - a series of CDs with maturities ranging from...ago. The interest paid on the CDs is pegged to the performance...against loss." Fosback called the CDs "good news for investors" but... |
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