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Coral Signals A New Era For DRM
News The problem the group is tackling is the one familiar to anyone who owns Apple Computer-made iPod music player and has found themselves unable to play music purchased from an online music store operated by Napster, Microsoft or other Apple rivals.
[October 4, 2004, 8:50]
Rainbow Media Selects Scientific Atlanta Systems For Analog-to-Digital Content Distribution Migration
White Papers In addition, Rainbow Media has purchased a backup PowerVu SD multiplex system for deployment in Belmont, N.Y.and will rely on Scientific Atlanta for assistance in distributing more than 6,000 PowerVu Integrated Receiver/Decoders (IRDs) to its...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
Downloads Web Premium includes Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3, Contribute CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 8.Note: The trial for Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium is only available on a DVD set that...
[June 22, 2007, 23:09]
TVedia
Downloads TVedia can playback both Windows Media DRM protected files and iTunes Music Store purchased music. Using TVedia, you can access content on digital media server; you can play online photo slideshow on Flickr, stream online radio from Live365, or...
[April 28, 2007, 7:16]
Compaq To Spin Off AltaVista
News Recently, Compaq purchased $220 million Shopping.com, an e-commerce company, in an effort to pump up AltaVista's portal capabilities. Digital dropped plans to spin off the division in 1997, deciding to focus on the business opportunities and to...
[January 26, 1999, 14:23]
Sky Shares Skyrocket On Online Strategy
News Sky has purchased stakes in three Internet companies, sports site Sportal, e-tailer Streets Online, and Static, which designs interactive TV services, as part of its drive to build up its online brands.
[February 10, 2000, 9:00]
Judge Rules DVD-copying Program Is Illegal
News The case was widely viewed as a test of how far commercial software could go in helping consumers make backup copies of their own legally purchased digital entertainment products, such as DVDs or video games.
[February 23, 2004, 7:50]
Beatles Judge Finds ITunes 'nothing To Get Hung About'
News As for whether the Apple Computer logo on iTunes and in advertisements creates a connection between Apple Computer and the content in violation of the agreement, the judge ruled that the average person can distinguish the difference between a...
[May 9, 2006, 10:25]
New Version Of XP Media Centre Edition To Be Released
News For example, Microsoft has been developing technology, code-named Janus, that paves the way for a new class of portable music devices capable of playing music that is rented on a subscription basis rather than purchased.
[October 6, 2004, 15:40]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
News Questions from Siggraph attendees also concerned their annoyance with regional coding, which prevents people from playing DVDs from one region of the world on a DVD player in another, even though the customer purchased the DVDs legally.
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Music Search Tools Target Tastes
News Most of those companies were ultimately purchased by other companies -- including Microsoft, in the case of startup MongoMusic -- and folded quietly into other services. A Soundflavor account is free; people pay for the songs they download or CDs...
[December 12, 2003, 10:20]
Patent Claim Threatens Streaming Industry
News It had determined that it owned about a third of the patents it needed to mount a licensing strategy for Web streaming, and its attorneys spent considerable time researching the rights held by another set of companies that Acacia ultimately...
[February 6, 2003, 12:26]
Sharman Offices Raided By Piracy Investigators
News Sharman Networks became a target for the music industry when it purchased the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing technology from its Dutch creators Kazaa BV in 2002. If each downloaded track was purchased for $0.99 the total would be more than $2bn...
[February 6, 2004, 8:35]
DRM Is Failing, MPs Told
News DRM limits the ability to enjoy legally purchased material, and punishes behaviour widely seen as normal. MPs were warned on Thursday that digital rights management systems are preventing consumers from exercising their fair-use rights.
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
News Pressplay, recently purchased by Roxio and renamed Napster, already plans a pay-by-the-song music store, slated to be launched this winter. A new pay-by-the-song music service is launching in Western Europe, putting an iTunes-like digital download...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
WebTV Founder's Next Act Unfolding
News As a result, products from big names such as America Online and Microsoft -- which purchased Perlman's WebTV in 1997 -- have been slow to catch on. According to sources, the Palo Alto, California-based start-up is developing software and hardware...
[January 2, 2002, 12:18]
Antipiracy Battle Moves To Hardware
News When products with no protections have been left on the market, consumers have purchased those instead. Computer and electronics companies badly want the market for digital media players to expand -- and that means convincing the content companies...
[March 23, 2001, 14:07]
Major League Baseball Takes Swing At Sling Media
News The cable subscriber in such a scenario already purchased the content from a programmer back home and under the law can watch it wherever he or she chooses, he said. Proof of the growing conflict came on Tuesday during a panel discussion at the...
[June 7, 2006, 11:10]
Intel Merges Desktop And Notebook Design
News Many people have purchased lighter notebooks to replace their home desktop PCs over the last several years. The consumer machine, dubbed Florence Digital Home, has a 17-inch wide-angle liquid crystal display, giving it a similar appearance to an...
[February 16, 2004, 7:50]
ElcomSoft: Software Could Be Used For 'bad Purposes'
News However, government objections prevented the defence from making it clear whether those people had legally purchased the eBooks they decrypted. ElcomSoft is accused of violating the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or...
[December 6, 2002, 11:56]
