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Dell yesterday announced six personal technology products, including a tiny new music player aimed at grabbing market share from Apple's iPod Shuffle. Weighing a little more than an ounce, the Dell DJ Ditty music player is the latest addition to Dell's Digital Jukebox lineup. It holds up to 220 song...
Technology writer Robert X. Cringely and PBS TV on Tuesday began offering a Web-exclusive hour of tech talk, appropriately titled NerdTV. Although it may seem like a giant step toward TV on the computer, analysts don't see a significant trend toward Internet protocol TV, or IPTV, among mainstream co...
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is set to grow tenfold by 2010, but according to industry reports the leader won't be the United States. Instead, countries such as China, France, and Italy are forecast to lead. It's possible, however, that recent changes in Texas and at the Federal Communicatio...
According to reports today, Samsung has announced it will bridge the gap between two rival next-generation DVD formats by building a machine that is compatible with both. Sony, the leading backer of the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, and Toshiba, the leading backer of rival HD-DVD, have been go...
Intel and Philips are working together to build and market home entertainment centers that will run on Intel processors, the chipmaker said at IFA, the International Consumer Electronics Fair, in Berlin. Both personal computer makers and consumer electronics manufacturers have been touting centraliz...
Toshiba, the main backer of a next-generation DVD disc format known as HD-DVD, has signaled it will not ship its players based on the technology before the end of the year, leading some analysts to doubt the format's ability to compete with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format. Analysts observed that it a...
Toshiba, the main backer of a next-generation DVD disc format known as HD-DVD, has signaled it will not ship its players based on the technology before the end of the year, leading some analysts to doubt the format's ability to compete with the Sony-backed Blu-ray format. Analysts observed that it a...
In what appears to be clear evidence that the digital revolution is ready for takeoff, results from a commercial mobile TV pilot in Helsinki, Finland, reveal consumers are willing to pay for services. Specifically, 41 percent of pilot participants said they would be willing to purchase mobile TV ser...
Universal Pictures has already started touting its US$150 million re-hash of "King Kong," due out around Christmas. But how will the mighty ape be kept safe from the Evil File Sharing Villains? High-speed Internet connections can mean huge, extremely fast downloads and, as a result, movie studios ar...
The consumer electronics industry has had a hard time with standards. Each manufacturer has its own specialty and few components work well with products from other companies. CE products have a mixed ease-of-use record. The most famous problem is probably the VCR which had the ability to time-shif...
Sirius Satellite is looking to get a jump on its satellite radio competition -- mainly XM -- and leverage the increasing popularity of the medium via its new portable player, touted as a wearable satellite radio that allows users to capture and store Sirius content as well as MP3 and WMA files. Siri...
In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...
In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...
Music being burned onto CDs is becoming a bigger threat than P2P file-sharing to both the music industry and record stores. The news comes from Recording Industry Association of America chief Mitch Bainwol, speaking for his bosses and the RIAA's owners, the members of the Big Four record label carte...
In announcing its new anti-piracy protections, the Blu-ray Disc Association indicated it had adopted the same content management system used in the HD-DVD format, known as Advanced Access Content System. Blu-ray backers said they had also included a "Blu-ray specific" enhancement for content protect...
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