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Gates Wants Information Everywhere
News The service will focus on streaming video and other media content, such as recaps of NBC's "The Tonight Show. Dubbed Windows Media Center Extender, the technology will allow TVs and other devices to display content from PCs equipped with Windows...
[January 8, 2004, 8:40]
The Future Is Broadband, Says Microsoft
News The Windows Media audio and video technology is being positioned as the basic infrastructure for music and video download and subscription services. The challenge is for the leaders from the key technology and media industries to develop the kinds...
[July 25, 2001, 9:36]
Intel: You Ought To Be In Pictures
News POPcast will utilize Intel's Easy Web Media software, which allows consumers to splice together audio, video, still images and text to create multimedia picture books. Intel said its free, downloadable Easy Web Media software has a five-button user...
[June 13, 2000, 9:38]
MSN Remote Record For Media Center
Downloads MSN introduces Remote Record, a new service that enables Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 users with a broadband connection to remotely schedule TV shows to record from any PC with Web access. The service lets you resolve scheduling conflicts...
[October 10, 2005, 22:08]
Cable Network Builds Interactive Television Application On Cutting-Edge Technology
White Papers To offer new customers a different way to enjoy its premium content offerings and to provide existing subscribers a richer preview of its varied programming, Showtime Networks built an interactive TV service for premium editions of the Windows...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
XP Media Center Gets Makeover
News Unlike other Windows operating systems, which Microsoft updates with a series of service packs between new releases, the next Media Center release will be a new version, according to sources familiar with Microsoft's product strategy.
[February 14, 2003, 11:52]
Ballmer Reveals Mobile TV Smartphone
News According to information released by BT on Tuesday, the Trilogy also contains the latest version of Microsoft's digital rights management software, and will include applications such as Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger and Internet Explorer.
[February 14, 2006, 12:00]
BBC Launches IPlayer 2.0 Beta
News As well as Windows, iPlayer is now available through Virgin Media, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch and the Nintendo Wii. Speaking in London on Wednesday, BBC group controller for future media and technology Erik Huggers said: "We've learned quite a bit...
[June 26, 2008, 8:49]
Media Center Will Succeed, Just Not Yet
News The personal media server is a programmable platform available to any content owner or service provider that wants to deliver a digital home application directly to consumers. Microsoft is promoting its Windows Media Center Extender devices as the...
[October 13, 2004, 14:25]
Microsoft Releases Fix For SP2-adware Clash
News On its Web site, Microsoft recommends that users download a 'critical update' if TV Media is running on their system and they wish to install SP2. The company initially recommended that people remove Velocity's Software TV Media application by...
[October 7, 2004, 16:55]
Microsoft And Intel Dancing To The Same Tune
News For several years, Microsoft promoted its Windows XP Media Center edition software while Intel touted a similar PC concept it called the Entertainment PC. Intel has launched a new brand, Viiv, that labels PCs containing Intel chips, Microsoft's...
[January 5, 2006, 10:30]
New PCs Restrict Copying
News The company released Window XP Media Center Edition to PC manufacturers last week, after the release of Service Pack 1 -- the first collection of Windows XP updates and bug fixes. Jodie Cadiuex, marketing manager of Windows Media Center, defends...
[September 4, 2002, 8:55]
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. Microsoft has also been doggedly courting content providers to endorse Windows Media as their...
[April 10, 2002, 7:31]
TiVo Upgrade Sets Up Streaming Network
News Our approach recognises that the PC or Mac may be the best place to store, organise, manage and protect your digital media, but the living room is the best place to enjoy it," Brodie Keast, senior vice president and general manager of TiVo Service...
[April 9, 2003, 14:42]
Asian Webcast Will Be Better Than DVD
News Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series player will be used on the PC end, and a server running the upcoming Windows Server 2003 operating system will feed the streams, said the representative. The collaboration was announced in Japan on 3 December 2002...
[April 9, 2003, 15:52]
AOL Unveils 7.0 As Competition Mounts
News Nevertheless, the momentum that AOL continues to garner, coupled by its media assets acquired through Time Warner continue to hook consumers into a variety of mediums, such as broadcast and cable TV, CD sales, movies, magazines, books and Internet...
[October 16, 2001, 15:38]
Little Things Mean A Lot For Gates
News Microsoft revealed plans Tuesday for licensing its Windows Media 9 software to enable digital media playback on devices besides Windows PC. Polaroid will soon offer the first DVD player with Windows Media support.
[January 9, 2003, 7:51]
Analysts: Microsoft Is Gunning For Google
News Beyond its core Windows and Office businesses, Microsoft has not been able to put the pieces of its media business together, said Alan Weiner, a managing vice president at Gartner. Google also has not made great strides in social search or search...
[April 26, 2007, 10:58]
Microsoft Mulls Xbox-PC Connection
News It appears to focus on Freestyle, an extension to Microsoft's Windows XP operating system aimed at turning PCs into digital media jukeboxes, although the survey refers to the product as "NewPC. The kit would include software and a remote control...
[May 30, 2002, 9:24]
BBC Launches IPlayer Service For Macs And Linux
News In an exclusive interview with ZDNet.co.uk's sister site silicon.com in October, the BBC's head of Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield, said he couldn't promise a download version would be developed for other non-Windows platforms.
[December 17, 2007, 7:50]
