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Call it the Pleasure PC. Digital Living Space. Or, as Microsoft would like you to think of it, Media Center. Vendors and analysts have been flagging a new era for home PCs, and there is more than just talk in the air. Dell, Gateway, and other computer makers are busy touting PCs optimized for entert...
Sony, maker of the first portable music device in the Walkman cassette player, has switched course on the format of its latest digital players, which will now support the consumer format of choice: MP3. Sony's MP3 move is a departure from its earlier policy of supporting only its own Atrac format, w...
While consumers have been slow to move to digital TV, that hasn't deterred Congress from trying to goose the transition process. That process includes snatching back spectrum currently used to broadcast over-the-air analog TV channels -- a process that, under current law, is supposed to occur by 20...
The Recording Industry Association of America is continuing to wage its war against peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. On August 25, the RIAA filed new copyright infringement lawsuits against 744 individuals on a variety of peer-to-peer platforms, including eDonkey, Limewire, Grokster and Kazaa. Me...
At long last, the noses of computer users have a purpose beyond holding up eyeglasses and balancing spoons. Thanks to a Canadian scientist, now you can use your nose to control your computer. Dmitry Gorodnichy of the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, Canada, has created the "Nouse," a c...
XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement. The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to X...
As it has been suing thousands of computer users accused of illegally trading copyrighted music online with peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, the Recording Industry Association of America has also been polluting P2P networks with bogus and corrupted media files to discourage P2P use. Now the industry g...
The sight of commuters' heads bobbing up and down as they listen to music on their way to work may be replaced by intent gazes examining the previous night's episode of the "Sopranos" or the ninth inning of the baseball game. Manufacturers are hoping that the next big wave in personal entertainment ...
Electronic Arts announced an agreement to acquire Criterion Software Group from Canon Europe. With the acquisition, EA will assume Criterion's studio in Guildford, UK; two intellectual properties, Burnout and Black; and the RenderWare middleware technology. Under a previous agreement, Criterion's Bu...
Thanks to the combined powers of music and the Internet, anywhere between 8 million and 9.5 million people around the world are logged on to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks at any given moment. At a conservative estimate, some 1 billion files are being swapped online between and among music lover...
Microsoft has formed a new Media/Entertainment & Technology Convergence Group, a move analysts say is calculated to build trust between the Redmond, Washington, technology giant and the media and entertainment industries. "Clearly Microsoft is trying to reach out to the companies that own rights...
Pointing to the growing number of movie downloaders worldwide, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is complaining that the practice is harming the movie industry significantly. Through a commissioned study of moviegoers and downloaders, the MPAA reported that about one in four Internet ...
At the moment, the truism that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" can easily be applied to Apple's iTunes online music store and those services that are attempting to compete with it. In April 2003, Apple launched the iTunes service and quickly sold millions of songs. As a result, compani...
Great Britain's On Demand Distribution (OD2) might be the biggest online music downloader in the region right now, but the company is preparing for battle with the likes of Apple's iTunes and the reborn Napster, unveiling this week its own digital jukebox that will provide pay-as-you-go music for ab...
Microsoft released a "technical beta" of Windows Media Player 10 yesterday, and while the target date for the prime-time version isn't until later this year, there's little doubt now who is in the crosshairs with this incarnation of the software. According to Michael Gartenberg, vice president and r...
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