Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
News "More choice for you" is the argument a Sony executive repeatedly made when questioned about digital rights management during an open-mic panel at Siggraph, a computer graphics industry conference taking place in Boston this week.
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
Talkback Greater choice? I guess they mean to say: greater choice within the boundaries and how we see fit. That's not choice. That's control. If you take a bird and lock it into a empty cage one can put all sorts of toys and gadgets into that cage and...
[August 4, 2006, 1:36]
Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
Talkback If Sony believes there should be interoperability, when is Sony's music business launching its service to exchange FairPlay protected tracks for PlaysForSure protected tracks? Or ATRAC for that matter?
[August 2, 2006, 12:35]
Siggraph audience takes Sony to task on DRM
Talkback Question: Why did Singer laugh about commercials in DVD movies? Answer: Because Sony is inbedding commercials into PS3 games on Blu-ray.
[August 2, 2006, 12:27]
Start-up touts keyboard made of light
News Canesta will release chipsets next year that will beam a fully functional keyboard onto a flat surface, Carlo Tomasi, the company's chief technical officer, said on Tuesday at the Siggraph 2003 conference here.
[July 30, 2003, 10:19]
Portals in space
News On Tuesday, Firmage returns from the high-tech wilderness to the Siggraph computer graphics gathering in San Diego to announce that his company, ManyOne Networks, has acquired San Francisco-based Web start-up Media Machines, a 3D technology company.
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
Graphics technology shows shape of the universe
News Astronomical data, computer graphics and the emerging field of "conformal geometric algebra" are giving researchers a clearer picture of the shape of the universe, according to Anthony Lasenby, a professor at Cambridge University and the keynote...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
MS, Netscape to collaborate on VRML
News The announcement will be made at a press conference to be held by the VRML Consortium at SIGGRAPH 97 in early August. In an unexpected alliance between Web browser rivals, Microsoft Corp.and Netscape Communications Corp.are expected to announce...
[July 28, 1997, 10:09]
MS eyes Talisman for 70fps 3D
News It was shown in a series of technology papers at the Siggraph computer graphics conference in New Orleans, and the only demonstration was a simulation. Microsoft is trying a second way to make workstation-class 3D graphics a reality on PCs: hardware.
[August 7, 1996, 11:18]
DreamWorks spins off animation unit
News No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep getting more sophisticated," said Scott Owen, a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia and...
[November 1, 2004, 9:10]
Laughing from Sunday mornings all the way to the bank
News No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep getting more sophisticated," says Scott Owen, a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia and...
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
US Report: Intel slashes price of 300MHz Celeron
News Next week at the Siggraph trade show, it will announce specifications for standard workstation designs, called WTX. Next month, Intel will cut the list price of a 300MHz Celeron chip from about $160 (£98) to less than $100 (£61), according to sources.
[July 17, 1998, 9:34]
Intel reveals Larrabee's cores and effects
News In a paper to be published at the Siggraph conference in Los Angeles on 12 August, the company reveals that the chip will use x86 cores based on an existing Pentium, but with in-order processing instead of the complex out-of-order designs of later...
[August 5, 2008, 16:10]
Sony open sources digital effects software
News While Imageworks has released other open-source software in the past, the release of five tools at once brings its involvement in open source to a new level, the company said on Monday, in an announcement marking the beginning of the Siggraph...
[August 3, 2009, 15:07]
Microsoft shows off 3D video-editing tool
News What we've done is built a way of patterning the essence of a video in a single pattern," said Andrew Fitzgibbon, who presented the technology Tuesday at the Siggraph trade show in Los Angeles. Microsoft showed off a technology on Tuesday that...
[August 13, 2008, 9:29]
