Tracking key Tech item for mp3 blogging
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    HTC Touch clone is the first Android smartphone based on MediaTek chip




    htc, touch, android, mediatek, mediatek chips, mtk platform first android smartphone


    MediaTek bowed to the ever-increasing craze for smartphones in March and released the MTK6516 chip for Windows Mobile smartphones. The shanzhai king has again responded to the global plea for Android and have tailored the MTK6516 chip to embrace Android goodness. The MTK6516 chip has transformed the old non-Android T3333 smartphone into a brand new Android-powered HTC Touch lookalike, the T3333a.


     


    http://shanzai.com/index.php/bandit-gadgets/phones/1776


     


    Hurry up with the sub $100 smartphone. and fork android already.

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    Marvell introduces 1.5GHz triple core ARM chip




    Sure, NVIDIA already has a dual core ARM-based chip for tablets, smartbooks, and smartphones, and Qualcomm is working on one of its own. But who needs a dual core chip when you can have a triple core chip?


    Chip maker Marvell has announced a new 1.5GHz tri-core processor called the Marvell ARMADA 628. It’s an ARM-based chip which can handle 1080p 3D video and 3D graphics performance.


    One of the things that makes this chip stand out is how the three cores are arranged. There are two “high performance symmetric multiprocessing cores,” and a third core which is “optimized for ultra low-power.”


    In other words, the third core kicks in when you don’t need the more power hungry cores to take action, for instance when performing routine tasks. So while you would think that a tri-core chip would use more energy than a dual core processor, Marvell claims the ARMADA 628 actually uses less.


    The ARMADA 628 supports DDR3 memory and USB 3.0 connectivity. It can support DirectX, OpenGL ES 2.0 and Open VG 1.1. It can project images to 2 LCD displays simultaneously, or pump out HD video over an HDMI cable.


    The chip supports Android, Linux, Windows Mobile, Adobe Flash, and RIM OS. Notice that the press release says “RIM OS,” and not BlackBerry OS… could that be an indication that this is the chip that will power RIM’s upcoming BlackPad tablet?

  • squashedsquashed
    Can we ditch the phone company already?  hurry up smart people. I need it yesterday ...



  • squashedsquashed
    Hold on to your pants people. 300mbps/s  wireless is ready for launch. In market by early 2012.



    That would be, your entire 1TB hardrive in under 2 minutes, wirelessly.   Whoa, you will never hear same music ever again for your entire live....



  • squashedsquashed
    hmmmmm, we won't see any telco company left in 5 years. . I'll set up my own antenna first thing I got the chance





    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20016274-266.html



    In recent interviews with The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Dan Reed, Microsoft's corporate vice president for technology strategy and policy, said that devices using "white spaces" could be on the market within the next two or three years.


    Microsoft has been testing new technology that uses the unlicensed spectrum on its 500-acre Redmond, Wash., campus. The company built the wireless network using only two base stations to transmit the signals via the white-space spectrum. Signals that use the white-space spectrum travel at least three times farther than signals transmitted over other unlicensed spectrum, such as Wi-Fi. This means it can cover an area that is almost nine times as large as one that uses Wi-Fi and because it operates at a much lower frequency than Wi-Fi, it can penetrate buildings much more easily.


    Microsoft showed off its network to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski in April. Genachowski has been bullish on the use of white-space spectrum to spur innovation in the mobile broadband market.


    "The goal here is to spur the development of another new, huge industry," Genachowski said in a recent interview with Bloomberg.

  • TsuruTsuru
    Squashed, I'm with you. When I find people have land lines in their house and it doesn't double as a general use business phone... I'm always surprised & perplexed.

    that's a good word.

    "perplexed"

    I resolve to use it more.
  • squashedsquashed
    Yeah. The entire spectrum allocation is not making sense anymore. Why should AM/FM radio, wifi, cellphone, TV, etc have their own spectrum when everything is inside one device and the hardware isn't all that different?



    Why do I need large screen TV and big computer monitor when I end up plugging everything into same data source?



    More importantly, why do some  radio /TV idiot get to fill entire spectrum all by himself when the space can be used to transmit several million times data density that I really want to have... total waste of resource.



    Incidentally, the reason they allocate free "wifi" spectrum, was as an empty space/spill over interference padding for "Microwave oven", and look at the amount of data that can be shoved into the supposedly noisy and useless spectrum.



    I for one propose we should consider passing legislation that declares current radio and TV pundits/bobble heads as public nuisance the same level as toxic waste and unwanted radiation.  ...  You want audio/video programming.... log on to the net like any other sensible modern person. The world needs the spectrum for more fun & useful stuff.



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    anyway, my prediction. The avalanche of cheap hardware, linux, wireless gear will come faster than they want to accept. I think the big telcos, and large media will cry mommy in less than 5 years.  There is too much microprocessor capacity around. They are going to integrate all those feature into cellphone/portable computer.
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    RAmos reveals flagship W10 tablet with ARM Cortex-A9 CPU running Froyo




    (Cheap hardware ahoy!!... just start making and selling it for $150 at walmart and be done with it already...



    ebook, portable DVD, mp3, navigation, netbook, web browser, digicam, gameboy, photo frame ...gah.. I just need ONE device.



    http://www.pocketables.net/2010/10/ramos-reveals-flagship-w10-tablet-with-arm-cortex-a9-cpu-running-froyo.html#more





    Starting off with the same 7-inch WVGA resistive touch screen, the W10 packs some serious power with a ARM Cortex-A9 processor aided by a Fujitsu Neon SMID DSP running Android 2.2 Froyo. In comparison, the vanilla W9 and basically the rest of the W10's siblings run a 1GHz Rockchip RK2818, and Android 2.1. It's uncertain about the exact clockspeed and chip arrangement, but the excitement continues in other hardware areas including 3D graphics capabilities in the form of a Mali-400 GPU with support for OpenGL 2.0, and the ability to playback 1080p full HD video with excellent wide ranging codec support. Other specifications are sketchy but RAmos has confirmed that the W10 also features b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB OTG 2.0 support, HDMI output, a G-sensor accelerometer, and an FM radio receiver. So far there hasn't been any confirmation regarding the W10's price or release date, but RAmos is looking to bring the new W-series including an updated W7 to market in the near future.



    Ramos_w10_4

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    First impressions of the Sharp IS01


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    Android tablets are becoming a dime a dozen these days, so the Sharp IS01 is a much-needed and highly refreshing addition to the market. The 1GHz Snapdragon-powered Android clamshell was never intended for use outside of Japan, where it has 3G and phone capabilities, but it works great on WiFi and the sub-$250 price from Conics makes it a compelling choice, especially considering its unique (for an Android device) size and form factor.

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    The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying laptop components incorporating the new Wi-Fi Direct technology, which provides peer-to-peer (P2P) Wi-Fi connections between devices such as cameras and smart phones without the need for a Wi-Fi access point or Wi-Fi network.

    Chief Executive Officer of the Wi-Fi Alliance, Edgar Figueroa, said the new technology was groundbreaking and would, for example, allow a salesperson making a sales presentation by using a smart phone or laptop to send slides or video to a projector without the need for wiring. Another example is a camera taking pictures on the upper deck of a cruise ship, which could instantly upload picture data to a laptop on the deck below. The technology would also allow people to play a game in real time on separate hand held devices, even in places with no Wi-Fi hotspot, such as on a train, Figueroa said.


    Data is transferred at up to 250 Mbit/sec over a range of about 180 meters without the need for a Wi-Fi access point. In a pair of devices only one of them needs to have Wi-Fi Direct installed. P2P communication would be initiated by entering a personal identification number or pressing a button on the Wi-Fi Direct enabled device, and then the second device would present a screen requesting permission to connect to the first. The technology also includes power-saving features aimed at extending battery life.


    http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-wi-fi-p2p-hot-video.html





  • squashedsquashed
    Why on earth is it so important to "stream" 1080p, when the same wireless technology can be used to stream data between computer? What is so urgent about transfering 1080p video one way onto tv set? ... Enough technology to stream 3 gbps /s - 100 feet but being used for streaming DVD content only complete with copyright protection lock? ... lol .. The greed and stupidity are unreal.



    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370215,00.asp




    On Tuesday, Amimon announced the WHDI Stick, a prototype dongle that incorporates the company's WHDI technology for wireless display of video to TVs.
    The WHDI Stick design will be provided to OEMs for manufacturing, hopefully to ship within 2011, said Les Chard, the president of WHDI LLC, who demonstrated the technology at PCMag.com's headquarters. WHDI is responsible for licensing the Amimon technology to CE manufacturers.

    The target price for the WHDI Stick is between $100 to $150, Chard said.
    The Amimon WHDI technology runs over 5-GHz, the same frequency band as Wi-Fi, although over 23 separate channels. The technology claims to have less than 1 ms of latency, can tolerate obstacles, and can transmit 1080p/60-Hz video data now, with an upgrade to so-called "4K" capable bandwidth next year.
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    OK. maybe last rant for tonite. Watch this terahertz thing.  This is moving so fast, few years ago, we didn't know we can create wave in this area (might as well didn't exist)... but now, a rudimentary radio is in the lab already. At this rate a real laptop dongle maybe only few years away, since all the inventions are using off the shelf manufacturing technology... but we can bet the spectrum will soon be divvy up to large corporations and everybody else has to pay. Luckily all patents and inventions are not hold by the usual greedy retards (no TV , entertainment and defense related industry. They are all japanese and korean semiconductors companies who couldn't care less about the survivals of television and movie industry.)



    .. makes you want to zap those rats...



    All I want is to download the entire internet for free before diner. Is it so bad?...



    http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=44508



    When it comes to safe screening and detection, terahertz imaging offers considerable advantages but one major drawback. Terahertz waves occupy a large segment of the electromagnetic spectrum between the infrared and microwave bands and can provide imaging and sensing capabilities not available through conventional technologies such as x-ray and microwave. But remote sensing using broadband terahertz waves remains a great challenge for scientists due to the high absorption of terahertz waves by water vapor in the atmosphere.



    Now, thanks to researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), broadband detection of ultrashort terahertz pulses at a distance of 10 m and remote terahertz generation at up to 30 m have been demonstrated. The work was funded by the US Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.



    http://spie.org/x42059.xml?highlight=x2414&ArticleID=x42059



    We also investigated THz waves for wireless communications. Because they offer extremely wide bandwidth (more than 100 times wider than that of conventional cellular systems), data capacities of up to 100GB/s are expected.5 The frequency band in excess of 275GHz, which has not yet been allocated for specific use, is especially attractive for this purpose. When 100Gbps wireless links are finally realized, one will be able to download a Blu-ray® movie (approximately 25GB) to a memory card embedded in a smart phone in just a second without having to take the phone out of one's bag or pocket. For this communications application, photonic technologies are advantageous compared to electronic approaches because of their inherent broadband nature. Photonic technologies can generate a high-frequency carrier signal and are also able to handle extremely broadband data signals.





    http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20101014/186473/



    Rohm Co Ltd developed a device that generates terahertz waves and exhibited it at Ceatec Japan 2010. It confirmed that the device can transmit data at a speed of 1.5Gbps.


    "In theory, it is possible to transmit data at a rate of 30Gbps," the company said.


    Terahertz waves are electromagnetic waves whose frequency ranges from 100GHz to 10THz (wavelength: 3mm to 30μm). It is difficult to develop a device that generates terahertz waves, but many researchers recently started working on it.

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    "John Carmack has an article up on the Bethesda blog discussing the iPhone/iPad version of RAGE, which is said to run at an impressive 60fps. 'Managing over a gig of media made dealing with flash memory IO and process memory management very important, and I did a lot of performance investigations to figure things out. Critically, almost all of the data is static, and can be freely discarded. iOS does not have a swapfile, so if you use too much dynamic memory, the OS gives you a warning or two, then kills your process. The bane of iOS developers is that "too much" is not defined, and in fact varies based on what other apps (Safari, Mail, iPod, etc) that are in memory have done. If you read all your game data into memory, the OS can’t do anything with it, and you are in danger. However, if all of your data is in a read-only memory mapped file, the OS can throw it out at will.' And a tweet by Carmack yesterday suggests that an Android version of RAGE is on the way too."



    http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/10/30/1647207/John-Carmack-On-RAGE-For-iOSAndroid
  • squashedsquashed
    OpenOffice's future was doomed from the day when Oracle acquired SUN Microsystems. The eventuality became even more obvious when they pulled the plug on OpenSolaris. Thankfully, OpenOffice is an open source software and leading contributors of the original project has forked OpenOffice and the new project will be called LibreOffice.



    LibreOffice



    The Document Foundation

    OpenOffice development community have today announced the launch of  "The Document Foundation" which will develop the new fork of OpenOffice called LibreOffice. The decision was hailed across the lengths and breadths of open source community.



    Richard Stallman said, "I’m very pleased that the Document Foundation will not recommend nonfree add-ons, since they are the main freedom problem of the current OpenOffice.org. I hope that the LibreOffice developers and the Oracle-employed developers of OpenOffice will be able to cooperate on development of the body of the code".



    Future Ubuntu Releases Will be Shipped With LibreOffice

    Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that, future releases of Ubuntu will be shipped with the new OpenOffice fork. He said, "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu."



    Apart from Canonical, Google, Novell, RedHat, GNOME Foundation and many others have already pledged their support for The Document Foundation.



    http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/future-ubuntu-releases-will-be-shipped.html
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    Andrew Steckl's research is featured on the cover of the November issue of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.



    A discovery by University of Cincinnati engineering researcher Andrew Steckl could revolutionize display technology with e-paper that’s fast enough for video yet cheap enough to be disposable.



    In the research, Steckl and UC doctoral student Duk Young Kim demonstrated that paper could be used as a flexible host material for an electrowetting device. Electrowetting (EW) involves applying an electric field to colored droplets within a display in order to reveal content such as type, photographs and video. Steckl’s discovery that paper could be used as the host material has far-reaching implications considering other popular e-readers on the market such as the Kindle and iPad rely on complex circuitry printed over a rigid glass substrate.



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    The use of paper as a material for various device applications (such as microfluidics and energy storage) is very attractive given its flexibility, versatility, and low cost. Here we demonstrate that electrowetting (EW) devices can be readily fabricated on paper substrates. Several categories of paper have been investigated for this purpose, with the surface coating, roughness, thickness, and water uptake, among the most important properties. The critical parameter for EW devices is the water contact angle (CA) change with applied voltage. EW devices on paper exhibit characteristics very close to those of conventional EW devices on glass substrates. This includes a large CA change in oil ambient (90−95°), negligible hysteresis (2°), and fast switching times of 20 ms. These results indicate the promise of low-cost paper-based EW devices for video rate flexible e-paper on paper.


     


    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am100757g


     


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    What is that? a drop of cranberry juice on brown paper, I don't see it glowing... on and off are the same!  lol.

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    Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (Foxconn) exhibited connectors for DiiVa, an interface standard for audio-visual devices, at the China Hi-Tech Fair, which is taking place in Shenzhen, China, from Nov 16 to 21, 2010.


    The company showcased standard connectors targeted at stationary devices and mini connectors designed for mobile devices.


    DiiVa, like HDMI, can transmit uncompressed HD video and has a network function for sharing contents among multiple devices. It transmits uncompressed HD video via multiple devices connected to a network. Its maximum transmission range is as long as 25m. Like the USB interface, it can feed power to a connected device.


    Though there currently is no product that supports DiiVA, a DiiVa-compatible product is expected to be released in 2011 at the earliest, a staffer of Hon Hai said.


    Hon Hai is now a connector maker that is crucial for the formulation of interface standards and seems to be deeply involved in the development of the specifications of the connector for Intel Corp's "Light Peak" optical interface technology. In an interview, the staffer implied that Hon Hai is now developing a connector for Light Peak and the basic specifications of the connector have been almost determined.


     



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    Huawei Ascend is a $150 contract-free Android smartphone




    Nice to see the low cost Android phones reaching pre-paid providers in the USA and around the world. Huawei is delivering this Android 2.2 compatible 3.5″ capacitive Android smartphone to US based pre-paid carrier Cricket. It’s contract-free but it’s probably still locked to only work on Cricket’s network.



  • x4ax4a
    WHAT? A pre-paid smartphone? And who the fuck is Huawei and Cricket? Huawei based in Honolulu? LOL!
  • TimTim
    Is this new?

    I'm sure I've seen Operator branded cheap smartphones on the market for the last 9 months or so (Orange definitely has one, although it's name escapes me).
    I know the US and European telco markets work surprisingly differently, but it surprises me this has taken so long state-side.

    I'm not quite sure why anyone would want one of these cheap smartphones though as the ones I've used so far have been pretty infuriating to use (making use of Android 1.x, having resistive touchscreens, or very slow CPUs bringing the price down). As component prices fall though, and as Android gets better and better, we should be seeing smartphones on the market for sub-$100 with no contract that are on par with the iPhone 3G soon enough, which as far as I'm concerned was the first really good smartphone. Once that happens, expect the floodgates to open with the whole world being internet connected. I give it 12 months max.
  • squashedsquashed
    Green only M&M request is not so impressive anymore...



  • squashedsquashed
    Shadow internet is born from wikileaks censor attempt. (not a new idea)



    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19816-info-pirates-seek-an-alternative-internet.html



    After dumping thousands of secret US diplomatic cables in the public domain last week, WikiLeaks ended up losing its web hosting company – twice – and its wikileaks.org web domain to boot as providers got cold feet about its content. But a plan being hatched by fellow travellers in the file-sharing community may shield the controversial data dumper from such takedowns in future.


    It all started with a tweet on 28 November: "Hello all ISPs of the world. We're going to add a new competing root-server since we're tired of ICANN. Please contact me to help."


    This missive, complaining about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, was from Peter Sunde, an anti-copyright activist based in Sweden and one of the founders of The Pirate Bay website, which tracks the locations of copyrighted movie and music BitTorrent files. It instantly lit a flame among file-sharers. "That small tweet turned into a lot of interest," Sunde blogged two days later. "We haven't organised yet, but are trying to… we want the internet to be uncensored. Having a centralised system that controls our information flow is not acceptable."

  • x4ax4a

    Seriously Dude, what in the Fucking world does this have to do with "Tracking Key Tech Items For mp3 Blogging"?



    If your are gonna blast hourly updates on the WikiLeaks shit then file the shit appropriately. You just ruined a decent tech item thread with one of your WikiLeaks hourly news updates.



    Fuckin' A

  • squashedsquashed
    a split from standard net naming tree seems pretty important for blogging to me. The event that triggers it is obviously wiki getting censored and this is not the first and last one. We already see the recent d.h5. effort taking down names without court order. 3 strike you are out, Amazon caving, etc.  not to mention long thread of C/Ds letters. I think the censorship trend will increase in the future as economic pressure force corporation to take drastic measures.



    Yes, you can argue this has nothing to do with current blogging, just as I can argue you are irrelevant and an idiot clown. *shrug* It's conjecture, opinion, and speculation. You have yours, I have mine. Write down your reasoning so public can see it too.



    But if a successful internet naming root truly emerges, then we will have an alternate internet so to speak, an area with different rules and authority in charge. An entirely new region that blogger can enter and quite possibly different mean to spread good music without the interference of usual power that be. It'll be entirely different universe, different possibilities. Current internet limitation has been reached. It is too easy for few powerful bad guys coopting the flow. The little guys are losing out.



    Current wikileaks tussle is a watershed event and will change the internet. (look at the size of attack and counter attack.)
  • x4ax4a

    Where in your fucking last two posts, on this thread, is there a single mention of a KEY TECHNICAL ITEM for mp3 blogging? There isn't. You started the damn thread, you should know.



    I'm an "irrelevant and ignorant clown". You better watch your step here.



    If you are so passionate about this WikiLeaks stuff, then why don't you take it to a proper political forum? Scared?



    I can read the news and don't see a need for reading your hourly WikiLeaks news aggregation supplemented with your obtuse paranoid comments.



    You may want to take a basic English language writing course. Reading your comments reminds me of what a retarded 5 yr. old would write.

  • squashedsquashed


    " General thread for dumping news items that might considerably change mp3 blogging landscape. This includes hardwares, softwares, networking, social experiments and hacks."



    Does it potentially have huge impact to internet landscape where blogging occurs if the root naming system is split? That system main aim obviously is to evade information subversion by status quo.
  • x4ax4a

    "Hardwares"==>"Hardware", "Softwares"==>"Software"


    • "Is it getting better?"
    • "Or do you feel the same?"
    • "Will it make it easier on you now?"
    • "You got someone to blame."
    • "One"
    • "Have you come here for forgiveness?"
    • "Have you come to raise the dead?"
    • "Have you come to play Jesus?"
    • "To the lepers in your head"
    • "One"
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    not much so far. Boring flat TV, tablet, retry of 3D. Really bad music.



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    amazing phone....



    probably good looking but can't make phone call, as usual...



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    wow, boat anchor... but cool. I wonder if it plays music








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  • x4ax4a

    @Squashed - Excellent stuff about CES 2011, thanks for posting it!


    Also interesting regarding the lack of Apple presence. What's up with that?

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    $499? make it $250 and we have a deal.
  • TsuruTsuru
    hot damn... you guys copy & pasting html code is really fucking up this thread.
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    Hey, this one is pretty handy, they should make it happens.







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    You can now, ride a bike, check your tweeter, blogging and getting hit by a truck all at the same time!

    (This is definitely darwin award winning product)



  • x4ax4a

    @Tsuru - "hot damn... you guys copy & pasting html code is really fucking up this thread."


    ??????? Seriously dude, WTF are you talking about?


    Personally, I'm just happy Squashed is 'back on track' with this thread and I appreciate him capturing summaries of this stuff. Saves me time surfing for it myself. Contrary to popular belief I do like Squashed even more minus the politics.

  • TsuruTsuru
    This.

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  • x4ax4a

    I don't get it or understand your screen capture. I can't find anywhere that I messed up but am probably missing it. Your screen capture confuses me? I'm using Safari on a Mac and the formatting toolbar is different than what I remember when on a PC. I haven't used the "quote" function like you did in the screen capture so? Can you please be more specific about how the HTML is being messed up? If it's something I'm doing wrong, I would like to fix it.

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    @merz - I don't use the quote function. That's just what the screen looks on my browser. Who knows, maybe it's just my version of chrome.
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