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Nokia looks to Linux for games
News With major competitors such as the PlayStation 2 for games and TiVo's device for home entertainment already finding firm footholds in the market, garnering support among developers is critical to the success of any new format.
[May 15, 2001, 7:56]
Companies fear costly MPEG-4 licences
News Some MPEG-4 backers praised the licensing plan for removing lingering uncertainty over the costs of implementing the new format, but others said a proposed per-minute streaming fee, equivalent to 2 cents an hour, makes the plan all but unworkable.
[February 11, 2002, 10:50]
Universal copy-protected CD shuns media players
News The digital files are contained in a single "CDS" file format, which is not explained. Universal has tapped Midbar Technology's Cactus Data Shield to lock up the ordinary CD audio files. But it has also included a separate audio player that allows...
[December 19, 2001, 11:32]
Hacked Rio to pose legal problems?
News Yet, Diamond's choice to use MP3 as the player's format has the music industry up in arms. In contrast, everyday audio CDs typically require around 10MB of data to represent a single minute of sound. The device plays small digital audio files known...
[January 28, 1999, 9:49]
Ten failures that went down in IT history
Comment But the MP3 format makes this list because of all the licensing issues it has caused. Their attempts cause as much hair loss as MP3 causes audio-quality loss. Richard Stallman was supposed to be the champion of open source, but he now endangers it...
[November 20, 2009, 11:42]
EU to throw patents in with the bath water
Talkback Elements of the DMT transmission process include a source material library, identification encoding process, format conversion, sequence encoding, compressed data storage, and transmission. Elements of the DMT receiving process include a...
[December 18, 2004, 22:45]
Hackers build movie player for Xbox
News The software allows modified Xbox consoles to play videos in the VCD format, commonly used for bootleg movie discs, and versions 3.x and 4.x of DivX, a controversial compression format used to swap videos over the Internet.
[June 12, 2002, 9:13]
Online music body favours MP3
News According to UK trade mag Music Week, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) is on the verge on accepting the MP3 format as an interim measure. MP3, a format that allows music to be easily compressed in digital form so that it can be uploaded...
[May 13, 1999, 15:47]
Apple sauces up OS X for gizmos
News Support for storage devices based on the PC Card format, including media readers, that are useful for shuttling data between digital cameras and laptops. Assorted improvements for audio, networking, printing and display.
[December 28, 2001, 9:50]
RealNetworks signs 3G deal
News Under the deal, RealNetworks and Envivio will codevelop a product called the Mobile Producer that will allow both people producing audio and video content and wireless carriers serving it over their networks to transform content in any format into...
[November 5, 2002, 7:57]
Sun upgrades xVM VirtualBox
Blog There is also more support for Mac OS X on Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x), improved support for VMware's virtual machine disk format (VMDK) and Microsoft's virtual hard disk (VHD) file format, for better transfer of critical business...
[December 19, 2008, 14:46]
