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New version of XP Media Centre Edition to be released
News Hewlett-Packard has announced its Digital Entertainment Centre, a Media Center device that is designed to look more like a consumer electronics device than a PC and is also expected to offer dual tuners, among other features.
[October 6, 2004, 15:40]
Redmond takes aim at your home
News Despite all the changes Microsoft is touting with the new version of Media Center, the biggest change may be one that the company barely mentions: the price drop. With the first two versions, the software maker sold Windows XP Media Center edition...
[October 13, 2004, 9:10]
Analysis: Ofcom to give BBC remit for universal Net access?
News In the sixties and seventies -- when TV was the main kind of mass media for most people -- the government was very keen to regulate. I can't say what David Edmond's role will be within it," says a spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media...
[December 13, 2000, 16:20]
Microsoft makes Longhorn in modules
News Microsoft sells four different versions of Windows XP for PCs -- Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Centre -- with additional versions for embedded devices and 64-bit workstations.
[May 27, 2003, 16:13]
Intel's consumer fumbling
News If a PC carries the Viiv brand, as Intel's marketing has put it, that PC was expected to be a sleek package at the centre of the consumer digital media universe, downloading and sending movies to televisions around the home.
[April 12, 2006, 13:35]
HP backs Blu-ray DVD format
News HP will introduce Blu-ray Disc drives in late 2005 as well, starting in its media centre PCs, desktops and personal workstations and followed by notebooks in early 2006. PC buyers can look forward to DVDs with up to 10 times the storage they now...
[November 17, 2004, 7:50]
Statistician defends his outsourcing figures
News As someone whose job it is to traffic in raw numbers and statistics, John McCarthy doesn't fit the profile of a media celebrity. The reports transformed McCarthy into an offshoring guru who was highly sought after by the media.
[August 10, 2004, 12:15]
Microsoft mulls XP 'reload'
News Microsoft had been planning to update to its two specialised versions of Windows -- Media Centre and Tablet PC -- before Longhorn. Issuing an update to XP would represent a significant shift for the software maker, which for months has insisted...
[February 27, 2004, 7:20]
Desktops morph to fit latest chips
News Hewlett-Packard's Media Centre m1000, for one, offers a mount for a digital camera on its top. The drive, which HP calls its Personal Media Drive, can be used to store or back up data and to share data between computers via a universal serial bus...
[June 22, 2004, 8:40]
Intel and Sony push for home content-sharing standard
News At the conference, Intel will show off a forthcoming all-in-one LCD (liquid-crystal display) TV-PC running Microsoft's Windows Media Centre OS. A number of manufacturers have started to sell digital media adapters, which are small boxes that link...
[September 16, 2003, 11:25]
HP still undecided on Dunn's fate
News HP said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it hired an investigation company to try to track down board leaks to the media. Chairman Patricia Dunn has been at the centre of a controversy involving the ordinarily secret...
[September 11, 2006, 8:55]
eBay cracks down on Romanian fraudsters
News Henley is currently in town to discuss the latest online fraud techniques with representatives from the Australian Federal Police, the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Communications and Media...
[June 28, 2007, 12:11]
Rackable puts data centre in a box
News We'll have Blackbox on customer properties in the next six to eight weeks," said Dave Douglas, Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility, at a media event on Friday. Rackable Systems has begun selling a data centre packed into a modular storage...
[March 27, 2007, 9:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So I sit there, for a speech talking about how well Broadband Britain has performed since Ofcom came into being a few years ago (no mention of BT's price cuts, or rural activists, or media pressure). It was the Broadband Britain Summit at the QE2...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Do tablets face a convertible future?
News The Premium version, which is based on Vista Home Basic, is similar to the Windows XP Media Centre Edition (XP MCE) but adds features designed for tablet PCs such as improved handwriting recognition and ability to use a tablet's stylus to pan...
[October 20, 2005, 19:45]
Start-up sees low-cost future in clusters
News His VirtuOS co-founder is Alex Vasilevsky, who was an engineer at now-extinct supercomputer maker Thinking Machines and most recently was chief technical officer of home media software maker Ucentric Systems.
[December 17, 2004, 13:45]
Users warned on Yahoo! Messenger attacks
News According Jupiter Media Metrix, 16 percent of workers with access to the Internet will be using Instant Messaging (IM) by the end of the year, with that figure expected to reach 46 percent by the year 2005.
[June 6, 2002, 15:06]
Microsoft muses on free desktop apps
News One suggestion is a low-end version of the operating system that comes bundled with other ad-supported programs, such as Works, Outlook Express and Windows Media Player. It's not just about (ads that run) in your PC with your browser open," Joanne...
[November 15, 2005, 8:35]
CeBit America called off
News Sell said more targeted shows were necessary to make it relevant to attendees, sellers, media and analysts. Javits Convention Centre in New York City from 28 June to 30 June, 2005. CeBit stands for Centrum der Buero- und Informationstechnik -- in...
[August 3, 2004, 8:40]
Longhorn's needs set for revelation
News In addition to the system requirements, the company said it will detail how to write the drivers needed to connect hardware in Longhorn, along with "future directions for mobile computing and Tablet PCs, Media Centre Edition, 64-bit Windows" and...
[February 19, 2004, 7:20]
