More on CD copy protection
As we reported, the legal battles over copy protection are just getting started and so far they seem to be going well for those who would like to see copy protected CDs clearly labeled (if ...
TV in PCs is a Killer AppUsers Approaching 30 Million
User base expected to almost double by 2004
The optical disk business gets tougher
Reports from Taiwan indicate that high-end DVD vendors are going to see further price pressure. In 2002, Media-Tek gained considerable market share with its chips that integrated servo and MPEG-2 decoder. According to some estimates, ...
i-O Display shows off PRO SVGA compatible headset at SID 2003
Are video headphones a practical idea? One of the longest, most tenacious companies in this business is i-O Display Systems, LLD. The company has pioneered wearable, semi-comfortable headsets that are designed to work with PCs ...
Creative Europe will stick with Nvidia
According to an interview with Eoin Leyden, Creative’s European Brand Manager for Graphics, one of Europe’s largest graphics board vendors is going to stand pat with Nvidia-based boards rather than go with the P10 chips ...
Micron demonstrates home brewed DDR/DDR-II at VIA Technology forum
The memory business is headed towards the latest in a string of inflection points for the industry with the introduction of DDRII, DDR400, and DDR333 systems. At his keynote speech at VTF (VIA Technology Forum) ...
OpenTV buys Wink for $101 million
Two well-established interactive TV companies have become one. OpenTV announced the acquisition of Wink TV from Liberty Broadband Interactive telelvision for approximately $101 million ni cash. This, say the companies, is the same amount paid ...
TiVo Mutates
TiVo joins the ranks of companies that claims to be a home gateway. At CES the company debuted a system that enables users to share the content downloaded on the machine to be shared throughout ...
DivXNetworks and ATI team up to further the cause of low bitrate video
ATI and DIvX networks have announced new hardware and software optimizations to enable more efficient video DivX video decoding. The companies say that thanks to the work done to optimize video processing performance is increased ...
ESS introduces DVD recording at CES.
The DVD chip companies are under pressure to deliver DVD recording and they’re delivering at CES. ESS announced their new digital video recorder platform and says they have locked up several wins with DVD manufacturers ...
The more you can see, the more you can do. That’s the promise of using multiple displays.
March 12, 2003—Jon Peddie Research has just released a market study on multi-displays. This 46-page report contains 46 charts and tables on the opportunities in the multi-display market, identifying user types, installed base, buying interests, ...
Computer users are taking their fun with them on the road
March 11, 2003—The number of mobile computers being sold is increasing each year, and has been for over a decade. There have been two steady developments in mobile computing that has contributed to the use ...