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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates gave his 11th and final keynote address at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday, a speech laden with predictions that technology will grow ever more personal and interconnected in coming years. Gates, who first addressed CES as keynote speaker in...
Nielsen and Digimarc have unveiled a new service designed to let media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user-generated content sites monitor and manage the distribution of media content. The Nielsen Digital Media Manager will use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to provid...
ABC wants to increase its network news viewers by tapping Facebook's constituency -- a younger crowd than the usual audience for its evening news program. The social networking site, for its part, is always on the prowl for new features to keep its 56-million and growing user base happy -- and stick...
Marvel Comics is opening its archives to the public with the launch of an online subscription service called "Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited," the company announced Tuesday. Curated by Marvel editors, the company's Super Hero adventures collection is now available in one digital location, giving fa...
SanDisk has renamed and launched its USBTV flash memory-based gadget, introduced in January, and says the Sansa TakeTV video player is an easy way for people to watch on the televisions video content downloaded on their computers. Described by the company as a "smart, simple and seamless way to easi...
BitTorrent, the company whose Internet file-sharing technology is perhaps best known for the illegal trafficking of copyrighted content, has launched a new service designed to let media companies use its technology to blast out faster streams of online content over their legitimate channels. The ser...
It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...
America's "third screen" -- that is, the mobile market -- is at a crossroads. The direction it will go is anyone's guess, but IDC is advocating that Internet powerhouse Google should take a leading role in determining its path. Conditions are ripe for a strong player like Google to transform the thi...
Microsoft, along with several partners, has launched a bundle of new methods for connecting household PCs to the living room entertainment center. Collectively called "Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center," the solutions are WiFi hardware devices that deliver video, high-definition TV, music...
MySpaceTV will relaunch "Quarterlife," a network television pilot about a group of recent college graduates that aired briefly on ABC in 2005. Accompanying the show's Nov. 11 resurrection will be a social networking site for fans, complete with the usual Web-related content, such as character profil...
The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web. The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources...
Last week was a vacation week for me, and I'm writing this before I leave for Atlantis and some of the most wonderful waterslides in the world. However, I had a heads-up on HP's announcement, and the Blackbird gaming machine is on the other side of incredible. This announcement basically assured Del...
Just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season, HP has introduced a slew of new products, including a PC specially designed for gaming. Called the HP Blackbird 002, it is the first HP personal computer bearing VoodooPC's distinctive stamp after HP purchased the high-end gaming PC maker la...
Vudu, a California company that will sell or rent movies to customers with high-speed Internet access, began selling its $399 units Thursday and expects the downloads will begin in about three weeks. The company has agreements with major and independent film distributors and can offer its customers ...
When ripping and playing digitized music was a novelty, media players basked in the hot software limelight. There were articles about the merits of one over another, about "wars" among vendors and lots of noise when a new version of a player arrived in the market. Today, though, new releases of medi...
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