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Piracy-Free Video Distribution With Microsoft Windows Media Technologies
White Papers Tata Consultancy Services, a Microsoft Certified Partner, came up with an innovative solution: encoded video CDs those customers can decrypt and play with Microsoft Windows Media Player via the Shigram Web site.
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
Media Overview - A Vision Of A More Secure Future For The Enterprise, Autograph And CoMo Technologies
White Papers Researchers at Intel are working toward this vision of a more secure future for the enterprise. In collaboration with researchers at leading universities in the US and in Europe, they are exploring a novel worm detection system and systems...
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
Patent Ruling Creates Ripples On Net
News SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won a ruling in its patent case against Bertelsmann subsidiaries that could have wide-reaching effects on the business of Net music and video downloads.
[November 4, 2003, 14:20]
Forum To Target Global Digital Standards
News A bevy of digital-media experts, led by the founder of the group that created the widespread MPEG set of media standards, launched an international forum on Tuesday that's aimed at standardising digital media and copy protection technologies.
[October 1, 2003, 9:55]
Net Music Sales Under Threat In Patent Case
News SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won an important ruling on a set of patents that could give it substantial reach over the business of selling music and video online. The patent ruling, while not final, is a sign that many more...
[February 15, 2002, 10:56]
Digital Media: Will Microsoft Win Again?
News On the one hand, Microsoft is pushing its proprietary Windows Media technologies and its pending successor, dubbed Corona. Microsoft has yet to commit to fully supporting MPEG-4, opting instead to push Corona and proprietary digital media...
[June 25, 2002, 14:48]
Flash Streaming Deal Announced
News Akamai Technologies and Macromedia on Tuesday announced a media-streaming technique designed to let users more quickly view online graphic and video content. The new offering -- which combines Akamai Streaming with Macromedia Flash technology...
[February 23, 2005, 10:50]
US Report: Glaser Levels New Charges Against Microsoft
News Microsoft Media Player disables a lot of companies' technologies. Clooney cited both Microsoft's Windows Media Player and ActiveMovie technologies as offenders. It's a bug in RealNetworks' setup," said Gary Schare, Microsoft lead product manager...
[July 27, 1998, 9:20]
A Technical Overview Of Windows Media DRM 10 For Devices
White Papers This paper provides a technical overview of Windows Media DRM 10 for Portable Devices and Windows Media DRM 10 for Network Devices, two new technologies that permit portable and network devices to play content protected using the Windows Media...
[July 8, 2004, 3:00]
Linux 'needs DRM Support' For Consumer Success
News He pointed out that Microsoft Vista is implementing a number of digital rights technologies, such as Protected Media Path, Protected Video Path and Protected User Mode Audio. But the Free Software Foundation Europe countered this claim on Thursday...
[April 7, 2006, 10:10]
Hollywood Heads To Court Over Movie-swapping
Talkback The media company's refusal to embrace and use those technologies to deliver new business models is their mistake, not that of the technology industry. It's about time the MPAA and RIAA woke up to the fact that CD's and DVD's are nothing more than...
[November 5, 2004, 15:07]
Real Takes Charge In Subscription Software
News Still, RealNetworks continues to face mounting pressure from Microsoft, which has integrated its Windows Media technologies into its operating system. In its ongoing effort to become the torchbearer for paid online programming, RealNetworks on...
[April 10, 2002, 7:31]
Trident Leaves PC Graphics Chip Market
News Following the merger of its graphics division with XGI, expected to be completed before 1 July, Trident will merge its digital media division -- which creates graphics hardware for high-definition TVs, LCD TVs and similar products -- with its...
[June 12, 2003, 15:07]
Intel Capital Reveals Prime Tech For Investment
News Digital media — the third key tech investment area — includes the convergence of technologies driven by the internet, such as online gaming and unified communications as well as business processes, including online payments.
[December 19, 2007, 7:27]
MPEG-4 Adds Interactivity To Video
News MPEG-4 is a wide-ranging set of audio and video technologies designed in part to condense large digital packages into small files that can be easily transmitted online, much like today's most common media formats, such as MP3, RealVideo and...
[August 9, 2001, 10:41]
The Politics Of Patents
News Over the years Acacia has patented proprietary its digital media transmission technology to a veritable Who's Who of blue-chip tech companies in the streaming media business. Q: We ran a profile on your company about a year ago and the lead...
[July 11, 2006, 17:25]
BBC Throws Down Broadband Gauntlet
News Media companies must now keep their side of the bargain and deliver content which justifies consumers' switch to broadband, according to Keith Little, head of IT at the BBC. Little said the BBC is on the verge of releasing an "Internet media player...
[November 9, 2004, 12:13]
Microsoft To Attack MP3 With MS Audio 4.0
News Microsoft does not comment on any unannounced products," said Gary Schare, lead product manager for Windows Media Technologies. That said, Windows Media Technologies support playback of MP3 today. MS Audio 4.0 is not expected to be incorporated...
[March 18, 1999, 9:38]
Coming Attraction On DVD Players: PC Content
News The player is part of a growing effort in the PC and consumer-electronics industries to combine technologies, making digital media such as images and music stored on PCs accessible on consumer-electronics devices using wired or wireless networking.
[December 17, 2002, 8:09]
Media Centre Struggles With Digital TV Support
News Microsoft is keen to stress that while MCE revolves around Windows Media technologies, this isn't a way of locking people into one particular platform. The latest version of Windows, aimed at making it easier to use digital media, has been such a...
[March 14, 2003, 13:33]
