Seattle – Loudeye, a provider of branded digital song stores and other digital media services, announced on Friday that it has shuttered its Overpeer unit, which developed media content protection technology. Overpeer provided services to record labels and movie studios that included seeding illicit file-sharing networks with “spoof” files, which contained only noise, or copyright [...]

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Mountain View, Calif. – The National Basketball Association (NBA) has partnered with Silicon Graphics, a provider of high-performance computing and storage products, to digitize all of the league’s historical archive of video and post it on NBA.com, CNET News.com reported on Friday. The project that will digitize 60 years of video footage may take up [...]

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Digital video recorder maker TiVo is expected to announce a plan to allow its users to download any television program stored on their recorders to video iPods. TiVo is making the move without Apple’s involvement, according to the WSJ paper. Apple launched a new generation of its iPod digital music player that can play video [...]

In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent. Under the terms of this agreement, Bram Cohen, founder and CEO, BitTorrent, has agreed to remove links which direct users to pirated content owned by the seven studios that [...]

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We all know how much Jobs likes the education market, so according to the Wall Street Journal he did a very magnanimous thing and offered OS X up to Nicholas Negroponte for his $100 laptop for developing nations. But not even bothering to discount the vast technical difficulties with getting OS X to run on [...]

Nice to see that companies are continuing to milk as much power from those USB ports as possible: this week brings the Trust USB speaker set (SP-2930p). Not really the most thrilling conception we

Panasonic today announced that it has developed the new chipset for disc drives to record and play Blu-ray Disc (BD), DVD-Multi (DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and DVD-ROM), +R, +RW, and all CD formats. full text: cdrinfo.com

Looks like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are going to be the latest networks to offer their programs for download over the Internet for playback on portable video players. Just a couple of things though: the downloads will only work on Hasbro

Popular Internet telephony network Skype pronounced to rhyme with ripe which allows computer users to gabble away for free and make cut-price calls to mobiles and landlines, is adding video and a slew of extra features to its service. Skype, acquired in the fall by online auction behemoth eBay for $2.6 billion, now has the [...]

CyberLink ‘s PowerDirector 5 enables the production of widescreen and high-definition movies, and the output of video files using CyberLink’s optional MPEG-4 AVC encoder or the Sony PSP-compliant MPEG-4 SP format. Support for MPEG-4 AVC and MPEG-4 SP, via optional plug-in packs, allows the creation of quality, compressed video files with low bit-rates. Both formats [...]

The best gadgets are the ones that squeeze a lot of functions into a tiny package. Hauppauge has somehow fitted a TV tuner, good for both analogue and digital signals, into a USB device the size of an ordinary flash memory stick. Actually that is a bit misleading because you also have to plug in [...]