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Apple picks aluminium over titanium
News A 1.25GHz version priced at $2,599 adds AirPort Extreme and the backlit keyboard and comes with 512MB of DDR memory, an 80GB hard drive and a drive that can burn both DVDs and CDs. The new 12-inch model sells for $1,599 with a 1GHz G4 processor...
[September 17, 2003, 17:15]
MP3.com and Tower Records sing the same song
News The deal also gives Tower Records a leg up in selling CDs via the Web. CDs bought through MP3.com's instant listening partners, including TowerRecords.com, JungleJeff.com, Duffelbag.com and Cheap-CDs, do not count toward the 25 CD limit recently...
[December 7, 2000, 9:06]
Apple unveils iPod
News Apple's iTunes software is used for playing digital-audio files and burning CDs. Many are also adding features for playing mini-CDs. In fact, he said, the company spent $50,000 on CDs to go along with review copies of the unit so that Apple would...
[October 24, 2001, 8:54]
The day the music (CD) died
News Last month, BMG Entertainment said it will work with security technology provider SunnComm to test copy-protected CDs. Ma said that while the partnership is a step in the right direction for both companies, the concept that DataPlay discs are going...
[August 7, 2001, 10:41]
Intel looks at leap in handheld memory
News OUM uses chalcogenide, the same material used for rewriteable CDs. So far, Intel has identified three promising technologies: "plastic" memory, or polymer ferroelectric RAM (PFRAM); Ovonics Unified Memory (OUM), which uses the same materials as...
[July 12, 2001, 9:40]
Malaysia backs down on software price controls
News The deadline for the report in price controls on DVDs, CDs and video CDs was to have been last month, but so far no sign of it has appeared. They feel that the current prices charged for software, DVDs, CDs and video CDs (VCDs) are forcing buyers...
[September 3, 2003, 10:54]
SuSE Linux Desktop review
Reviews Much of the time, the problem can be avoided by sticking with what's on vendors' CDs, vendors' online updates and ready-made packages. In the end, this seemed to be down to a combination of bad install CDs and a bad CD-ROM drive; the software...
[July 28, 2003, 8:23]
CD copying war heats up
News Tues 20 Nov: BMG has been forced to issue replacement CDs after copy protection on the latest Natalie Imbruglia causes problems for consumers Sites spotlight reports of copy-protected CDs Tues 13 Nov: UK and US sites are listing music CDs with the...
[April 10, 2002, 11:55]
Garageband unplugs site
News Garageband's three founders -- Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison, former Washington Post rock critic Tom Zito, and Amanda Lathroum Welsh, former head of Netcenter, a division of Netscape Communications -- discovered 12 aspiring bands and produced 12 CDs.
[February 18, 2002, 11:26]
Acez CD Ripper
Downloads Acez CD Ripper supports CDDB (compact disc data base ), you can connect to any remote CDDB as you want to get the album information about your CDs automatically. Acez CD Ripper also provides a native CD Player, the native player lets you listen the...
[June 9, 2005, 8:00]
MPs demand DRM safeguards
News Last year, Sony caused outrage when it emerged that the company had included a rootkit-like program on some music CDs to hide its copy-protection technology from users. This was then used by some malware to hide itself, which forced some IT...
[June 5, 2006, 17:15]
Amazon users campaign against Sony's copy-restriction technology
News Some postings called on Amazon customers to stop buying Sony products altogether, to discourage them from putting such software in future CDs. Sony might be alienating more and more customers from buying CDs.
[November 3, 2005, 16:35]
eMacs and iMacs get more bite
News The £899 entry-level version features a 1.8GHz chip, a 17-inch wide-screen display, 512MB of memory, a 160GB hard drive and a combo drive that can burn CDs and play DVDs. The £999 midrange model also has a 17-inch screen and similar size hard drive...
[May 4, 2005, 10:05]
Best-ever site for online music?
News Over the last few months during the run-up to the launch, Schmidt says the site was receiving hundreds of CDs a week from prospective bands, out of which just 1000 were chosen. They can then post a selection of tracks for free play or download, and...
[October 19, 1999, 11:38]
Looking for True Permanence in File Storage
Blog At the same data density, blue laser light, a relatively short wavelength, used in DVDs has the ability to enable a better signal/signal+noise ratio compared to the longer red laser wavelength used for CDs.
[May 9, 2008, 11:47]
How to make money from online music
Blog The option to take a playlist and turn it into an instant CD - or fifty instant CDs, or five thousand - would open up a whole new market for social sharing of music. Any social get-together where music is a feature - weddings, birthday and...
[August 4, 2009, 16:47]
Windows XP: entertainment and multimedia review
Reviews As well as categorising your media, XP's Windows Media Player will copy tracks to and from CDs, converting them into MP3s if you have the appropriate third-party add-on, from where they can be downloaded into a portable player.
[October 30, 2001, 15:23]
MP3.com shares explode
News MP3.com said the CD isn't actually uploaded because it has a database of 80,000 CDs. The company would then charge consumers a small fee to access all their CDs. MP3.com shares rose from the ashes on Thursday, rallying up 15 5/8, or 95 percent, to...
[March 3, 2000, 10:53]
MP3 revamp to prevent piracy
News The move is recognition of a dawning new era in digital music, in which pay-per-song services are beginning to gain ground on the anarchic file-swapping networks and in which CDs themselves may ultimately be overtaken by digital downloads.
[March 2, 2004, 7:50]
Jane Wakefield: Don't stop the music
News But, whatever the music industry thinks of CDs, it is determined that its successor will not be MP3. While the people who sell CDs continue to believe they will be around for ever, there is no question in my mind that in ten years' time we will be...
[July 24, 2000, 12:57]
