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Article | 23/10/2002 Feature: Tuning out Web radio
Hundreds of Web radio stations are going dark because they claim that new royalties, currently set at a fraction of a penny per user per song and retr...
Article | 21/10/2002 Matsushita, MS promote new media storage standard
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., better known as Panasonic, and Microsoft Corp. have jointly developed a new way to store, access and retrieve...
Article | 21/10/2002 Musicmatch stops Mac work, offers Windows iPod news
MP3 software maker Musicmatch -- developers of Musicmatch Jukebox -- have announced plans to discontinue support of their Macintosh software, includin...
Article | 21/10/2002 Web radio faces costly future
In a scramble to end their session, senators have left small commercial Webcasters with an uncertain--and potentially expensive--future.
Article | 17/10/2002 Apple: QuickTime 6 gets quick uptake
Apple Computer 's free QuickTime 6 media player got a quick uptake in its first 100 days, and it is a boon for the MPEG-4 (Moving Picture Experts Grou...
Article | 16/10/2002 Radium USB MIDI keyboard coming in November
Midiman's M-Audio, a provider of digital audio solutions, has announced the Radium keyboard, the latest in their line of Midiman Keystation USB MIDI c...
Article | 16/10/2002 IDF - Intel: Digital media adapters to hit market in 2003
Digital media adapters, which will allow users to share music, images and video files stored on their PCs with consumer-electronic devices such as TVs...
Article | 15/10/2002 Steinberg releases Cubase SX, for OS X
Steinberg Media Technologies AG has released the English language version of Cubase SX for Mac OS X, its professional music creation and production so...
Article | 9/10/2002 Bias Sound Soap washes out unwanted noise
The sound specialists at Bias Inc. have unveiled Bias Sound Soap, a new digital audio signal processing plug-in for Mac and Windows systems. Steve Ber...
Article | 9/10/2002 Takara unveils mini digital music player
Takara Co. Ltd., a Tokyo toy maker, is giving one of its most popular product lines a high-tech touch. The company has taken some of its small plastic...
Article | 9/10/2002 Web music keeps streaming--for now
After a week of nonstop negotiations, Webcasters and the recording industry have struck a deal designed to keep small Internet radio stations in busin...
Article | 9/10/2002 SonicBlue unveils two Rios
SonicBlue Inc. has announced two new flash MP3 players: the Rio S50, with an integrated FM tuner, and the Rio S35S, with a rugged shell for athletic u...
Article | 9/10/2002 New applications sniff out pirated software
File swapping aficionados beware. Those MP3s you've been storing on your office computer could soon catch the attention of your network administrator ...
Article | 8/10/2002 DVD copying up against the law
US-based software manufacturer 321 Studios LLC is set to release a product that it says will allow consumers to create perfect copies of their DVDs. B...
Article | 3/10/2002 Vote on webcaster royalties dropped
In an unexpected move, the U.S. House of Representatives canceled a vote Tuesday on whether to give Internet radio stations an extra six months before...
Article | 1/10/2002 Digital Voodoo offers Jaguar drivers for SD video cards
Melbourne, Australia-based Digital Voodoo Pty. Ltd. has released updated software for all of its PCI-based Standard Definition (SD) 10-bit uncompresse...
Article | 1/10/2002 Microsoft buys Liquid Audio media delivery patents
Digital media delivery company Liquid Audio Inc. is selling its intellectual property assets, including patents for digital rights management (DRM) an...
Article | 30/09/2002 Bill may give webcasters royalty rate reprieve
Webcasters could potentially get a break from what they claim are overly burdensome copyright fees if a new bill introduced into Congress late Thursda...
Article | 28/09/2002 Storm Music Studio 2.0 released
French software publisher Arturia SA Friday announced the release of Storm Music Studio 2.0, following its public introduction at Apple Expo in Paris ...
Article | 27/09/2002 P-to-P could mean trouble
Antivirus firm Central Command on Wednesday released the findings of its annual survey, which showed peer-to-peer file-sharing sites are becoming viru...

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