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Microsoft Licenses Audio Technology
News Microsoft Corp said Thursday it had reached an agreement to license elements of audio technology developed by Israel's Waves Ltd. Microsoft said in a statement that it would use Waves' TrueVerb technology in future versions of its operating systems...
[January 28, 1999, 16:54]
Digital Audio Players To Use Iomega PocketZip Technology
News I-Jam and Win-Jam digital audio players are going to be compatible with 40Mb PocketZip disks, and designed to work with Windows Media Player 7. They'll hold around 80 minutes of music as Windows Media Audio(WMA) files, although they will also play...
[September 1, 2000, 9:30]
Open-source Audio Wins MP3 Player Support
News Open-source audio technology Ogg Vorbis will get its first official entrée into a commercial portable MP3 player next month. Vorbis, an audio codec comparable to MP3 or Windows Media Audio, was created by open-source programmers to give developers...
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
AOL Hands RealNetworks Job To Dolby AAC
News AOL plans to use Dolby Laboratories' streaming audio technology in its Internet radio products, swapping out software from the service's former provider, RealNetworks. AOL's decision comes at the expense of its longtime audio technology partner...
[May 29, 2003, 12:04]
AOL Swaps Real For Dolby
News America Online is expected to announce that it will replace RealNetworks with Dolby as the default audio streaming technology for its narrowband Net radio service, according to Dolby. AOL will swap RealNetworks' audio streaming technology with...
[March 25, 2003, 12:47]
WOW Thing Audio Enhancement For WinAMP
Downloads The FREE WOW Thing 2 plug in is an audio enhancement processor based on patented technology. WOW from SRS Labs is the next generation of 3D audio technology. The WOW Thing also includes TruBass, another technology from SRS Labs, Inc.
[June 26, 2007, 4:46]
BBC Technology Announces 3G Deal With Hutchison
News The deal will see BBC Technology producing audio-visual content, and is likely to include the production of video footage of Premiership football action. Brewster explained to ZDNet UK that this deal was an significant piece of the jigsaw for...
[January 10, 2002, 14:35]
Microsoft Must Pay $1.5bn In MP3 Patent Case
News A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows. Fraunhofer, which helped develop the MP3 compression technology along with Lucent's Bell Labs, has...
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
Real, Ericsson Team On Mobile Media
News Under the non-exclusive agreement, Ericsson will integrate RealNetworks' technology for audio and video playback into the equipment it sells to mobile phone companies. The combined technologies will support the playback of video and audio files...
[February 19, 2003, 7:26]
IBM Takes Linux To Hollywood
News As Hollywood goes ever more digital, IBM is gearing up to grab some of its business by introducing souped-up technology for production and editing of video and audio. Media producers, digital editors and animators can use it to concurrently work on...
[September 17, 2002, 7:58]
Ballmer: Give Streaming Media A Chance
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer Tuesday acknowledged serious shortcomings in current audio and video streaming technology but promised better things to come. Microsoft overlooks the fact that media delivery is not simply about codecs," she...
[December 13, 2000, 11:10]
Microsoft Patent Dispute Heats Up
News InterTrust Technologies, a digital rights management company, said on Thursday that it has filed a second patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, targeting technology that helps connect audio players and other peripherals to PCs.
[February 8, 2002, 10:57]
Digital Music Focuses On Fight Over Keys
News This is borne out by history; record companies have balked at Microsoft's insistence that its antipiracy technology be tied directly to use of its Windows Media audio format. For example, Microsoft says it's also supporting the "flexibility" to...
[June 25, 2001, 12:49]
Windows Media 8 Shrinks The Streams
News Microsoft released Windows Media version 8 Wednesday, a compression technology that lets companies encode high-quality audio and video into smaller packages. Promising 30 percent improved quality, Windows Media 8 lets content providers present near...
[March 29, 2001, 8:47]
Statistics Firms Rethink QuickTime Stats
News Apple is close to vindication in a long-running dispute with Web researchers over the popularity of its QuickTime multimedia technology -- a victory that could help speed adoption of new digital video and audio standards.
[June 19, 2002, 15:40]
US Report: Is WebTV A Puppet In Microsoft Standards War?
News But they said the lack of support for RealMedia -- a popular technology that delivers audio and video designed for low-bandwidth connections -- doesn't make sense for a television-based platform. The company also used to regularly update WebTV...
[November 9, 1998, 10:05]
Google Makes Audio Search A Labs Project
News The speech-recognition technology was used in an online application, launched in July, that let people search political speeches, and now the Gaudi (Google Audio Indexing) project has an official interface at Google Labs.
[September 17, 2008, 12:23]
MPEG-4 Backers Protest Microsoft Licence
News In a first-ever move for Microsoft, it set pricing this week for licensing of its audio and video compression technology, or codecs, for use on non-Windows operating systems. RealNetworks offers comparable pricing to that of Microsoft's with its...
[January 10, 2003, 7:51]
Open-source Rival To MP3 Released
News The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has been widely anticipated by enthusiasts of open-source software. Because of the small size and high-quality MP3 files, the technology has become the de facto standard for...
[July 22, 2002, 9:25]
US Report: Creative V Aureal For 3D Audio Battle
News It uses a core technology (Environmental Audio), a software interface (Environmental Audio Extensions, or EAX), and hardware (the EMU10K1 processor). Meanwhile, Creative's technology offers more flexibility for high-end audio editing and music...
[August 17, 1998, 15:49]
