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Article | 5/06/2002 Aural envy -- Via unveils new audio chip

Via Technologies Inc. unveiled the Envy24HT audio chip at the Computex trade show in Taipei yesterday, offering top notch quality, truly immersive sur...

Article | 5/06/2002 Apple releases previews of QuickTime 6, Broadcaster

After an almost four month delay over licensing terms of the MPEG-4 technology, Apple Computer Inc. announced the first public release of its QuickTim...

Article | 5/06/2002 Sony unveils Memory Stick Duo, finds new licensees

Sony Corp. plans to release a new generation of its Memory Stick Duo flash memory card in July, the company announced at its second annual Memory Stic...

Article | 4/06/2002 Napster files for bankruptcy, Bertelsmann still keen

Napster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, just two weeks after its major creditor, the German media group Bertelsmann AG, had agreed to acqui...

Article | 3/06/2002 NEC develops software for faster audio compression

NEC Corp. has developed software that can quickly compress audio data at a flexible rate, the company said Friday. This new development will allow mob...

Article | 24/05/2002 Sony licenses InterTrust's digital rights technology

Consumer electronics giant Sony has agreed to license patents from beleaguered InterTrust Technologies to create digital rights management (DRM) techn...

Article | 23/05/2002 Verbatim ships 40X CD-R media

Verbatim, the company behind a variety of digital storage products, is now shipping DataLifePlus 40x-certified CD-R discs that the company says can bu...

Article | 22/05/2002 Markers may threaten CD copyright protections

An anticopying technology used by Sony Music Entertainment on music CDs sold in Europe is apparently being defeated by music lovers using simple strai...

Article | 22/05/2002 Dutch music rights body takes Kazaa to Supreme Court

Dutch music rights body Buma/Stemra is taking its case against Kazaa BV to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, fighting the March 28 Amsterdam Appea...

Article | 20/05/2002 Vitria marries Web services, BPM

If a new peer-to-peer (P-to-P) upstart has its way, users of the popular Kazaa file-sharing network will soon see secure, copyright-protected content ...

Article | 20/05/2002 Altnet opens Kazaa's doors to paid content

If a new peer-to-peer (P-to-P) upstart has its way, users of the popular Kazaa file-sharing network will soon see secure, copyright-protected content ...

Article | 20/05/2002 Companion service launches on Kazaa

Users of the Kazaa Media Desktop will be offered a controversial update starting Monday, with the introduction of a second file-sharing service that i...

Article | 20/05/2002 Bertelsmann buys Napster for $8 million

After a long and torrid courtship, Bertelsmann AG said Friday that it has agreed to purchase Napster for US$8 million, and is reinstating Konrad Hilbe...

Article | 17/05/2002 Will fees silence Web radio?

The budding Internet radio industry is squaring off against the recording industry, saying a proposed new fee for Webcasting music could run Web radio...

Article | 15/05/2002 Apple advises on ejecting copy-protected audio CDs

By now many consumers are aware that the music industry is beginning to press audio discs that have been copy protected to prevent them from being rip...

Article | 15/05/2002 If music be the food of law

I just drove from my home (north of Los Angeles) to Las Vegas, a pleasant five-and-a-half-hour jaunt. It was great - I loaded up the CD cartridge, pac...

Article | 15/05/2002 Napster CEO calls it quits

The chief executive officer of embattled file-sharing company Napster Inc. has resigned, the company confirmed in a statement Tuesday.

Article | 15/05/2002 AMD unveils flash memory based on MirrorBit

Mobile phones should be able to hold twice as many rings, MP3 players twice as many songs, and cameras twice as many photos at the same price, using f...

Article | 10/05/2002 Sonicblue to ramp up production of iPod competitor

Last year when Apple Computer introduced the iPod, some analysts suggested the unit's price would be a turn-off to consumers. Now another major player...

Article | 7/05/2002 Intuem: OS X MIDI music authoring for students, home

Companion Engineering & Design on Tuesday announced Intuem. Intuem is a MIDI-based music authoring application for Mac OS X that has been developed sp...