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1. DivX CEO: We've still a lot of streaming to do

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   ... "We have agreements with Paramount and Warner Brothers to deliver that content so what is required for the three screen promise to come to true is a standard where everyone speaks the same language."The ...

2. World's quietest room opens for business

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Tuesday, 08 September 2009

   ... laboratories where vibration and acoustic noise levels are among the lowest ever achieved, despite being located in the centre of Bristol City. The basement houses the low noise area with a suite of ultra-low ...

3. SETI celebrates ten years of not finding aliens

   (Space/Space Features)

   Tuesday, 19 May 2009

   ... power of hundreds of thousands of volunteer PCs is used to search this data for narrow-band signals and other types of signals of alien origin. Development of the project began in 1998, with initial ...

4. Video-on-Demand available in HD via Amazon

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 22 April 2009

   ... Studios Home Entertainment, Showtime Networks, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Can Amazon catch up with Netflix?Seattle (WA) - Amazon expanded its Video on Demand service on Tuesday to include more ...

5. First look: Mozilla Firefox FX 3.6 alpha 1

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 06 April 2009

   ... provides us with an early glimpse of upcoming FX features. Join us for a first look. EXTRA: SLIDESHOW Chicago (IL) - Although Firefox 3.5 (formerly Firefox 3.1) is ...

6. How to turn your iPhone into unbreakable security token

   (Security/Security Features)

   Thursday, 02 April 2009

   VeriSign has teamed up with Apple to provide a second-factor authentication (2FA) token generator application for the iPhone. For those interested in maximizing their online security against fraud and ...

7. Fennec Beta 1 review: The future of mobile browsing is here

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 27 March 2009

   ... plugin-based web content easily viewable. The support for Mozilla's add-ons platform alone puts Fennec far ahead of other mobile browsers, enabling a personalized browsing environment just as with desktop ...

8. Review: IE8 is no speed demon, but is most secure browser available

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 March 2009

   Today is a red letter day for browsers. Microsoft has unleashed the final version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). Designed to counter its declining web usage share with the entire IE brand, IE8 doesn't ...

9. New iPod shuffle contains tiny DRM?? chip in earbud

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 17 March 2009

   ... to be sent from the earbud to the iPod Shuffle to change tracks, pause, volume up/down, etc. While the iPod shuffle comes with earbuds from Apple, the desire by many to use third-party headphones is paramount. ...

10. IBM may allow 20% of its workforce to work from home

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... connections. The effort would reportedly start with the sales and marketing teams, then to all positions that "require constant movement." IBM expects an additional 10% savings to the company from this ...

11. Update2: New Enterprise movie trailer now available online in HD at up to 1080p

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    Paramount has teamed up with J.J. Abrams (of Armageddon and Mission Impossible III fame) to create a new Star Trek The Original Series (TOS) movie, set for release May 8, 2009. This movie will reclaim ...

12. Dreamworks separates from Paramount, gets India into Hollywood

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 05 October 2008

    ... form a new movie company in an alliance with India’s Reliance BIG Entertainment. David Geffen will not join the new movie company.   Hollywood (CA) – Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks formally ...

13. Outmaneuvered: Real Networks hits Hollywood with preemptive suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 September 2008

    ... enables content-ripping and subsequent playback on a PC. Hollywood gets angry and threatens with legal action and a lawsuit follows eventually The difference in this case, however, is that not Hollywood ...

14. PS3 expected to remain the driving force behind Blu-ray sales

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 01 July 2008

      The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) released its 2008 annual report with a wealth of data revealing the most trends in TV, home video and video gaming segments. The flood of data reveals ...

15. DVDs come under pressure from the-same-day iTunes digital releases

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 02 May 2008

      Analysis - Movie rentals and purchases in iTunes Store are catching up with DVDs big time with today's announcement that Apple's online media store will offer new and library titles the same day ...

16. Bee Movie, other Paramount titles coming to Blu-ray

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 30 April 2008

    ... released.  One other milestone, its first new Blu-ray title to come out day-and-date with the DVD release, will be The Spiderwick Chronicles which is slated for June 24. ...

17. Midway may become part of Viacom

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Monday, 28 April 2008

    London (England) - Media conglomerate Viacom may soon add Midway to its portfolio, according to an interview with England trade magazine MCV. The CEO of Midway Matt Booty told the publication that the ...

18. Getting inside Steve Jobs’ head

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 25 April 2008

    ... unauthorized biographies have pointed out that bothered me in perspective. These behaviors previously seemed stupid and being stupid is inconsistent with the kind of quality work Jobs otherwise does.  ...

19. Scientists to develop 3D camera with 12,616 lenses

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 21 March 2008

    ... out the distance of objects to the camera lens in order to calculate the geography of objects within a picture. Current projects appear to either focus on pictures that are taken by multiple lenses at ...

20. Recent writer’s strike may force Blu-ray prices down

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 17 March 2008

    ... slash the price of its PS3 console as soon as the current promotion with BD movies ends at the end of this quarter. There are big hopes on the impact of the release of Polyphony’s GT5 Prologue game, which ...

21. DVD Forum sets new rules on China HD DVD format

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 29 February 2008

    ... The review approval authority remains with the DVD Forum. It is expected that the format will use a codec (Advanced Audio Video Encoding Standard in Information Technology, AVS) that is owned by the Chinese ...

22. Dreamworks Animation still HD DVD exclusive under contract terms

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 28 February 2008

    ... creators of HD DVD have officially abandoned the format, Dreamworks Animation is still locked in to an exclusivity contract. So far this year, nearly everyone still involved with HD DVD has decided to ...

23. Warner to still support HD DVD through May

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 20 February 2008

    ... its lasting HD DVD plans in light of the format-killing news that came out this month, with HD DVD creators Toshiba and Universal axing their commitment to the high-def platform.  The studio did not ...

24. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... may have played a significant role in the downfall of HD DVD, due to its decision not to offer an HD DVD drive integrated in its Xbox 360. Even if we here have dealt with HD DVD and Blu-ray almost on a ...

25. HD DVD defeated: Toshiba halts production of players

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 16 February 2008

    ... out Blu-ray players within months, perhaps weeks. The company has covered its bases through Toshiba Samsung Storage Technologies (TSST), a joint venture with Samsung. Samsung has been focused on Blu-ray ...

26. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    Analysis - If you had to choose between Blu-ray and HD DVD today, what would you buy? Based on recent media coverage we guess likely you would go with Blu-ray. But has the market already made its decision? ...

27. Blu-ray winning format war, Gartner says

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 January 2008

    ... format to die within this year. In a research note that was leaked to media today, Shimizu was quoted stating that the recent HD DVD price cuts “may prolong HD DVD's life a little”, ...

28. Digital Playground drops HD DVD

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 16 January 2008

    ... HD DVD is left with just Universal, a founding member of the format, and Paramount, which reportedly received huge monetary incentives to move away from Blu-ray. ...

29. Sony CEO considers HD format war to be in a “stalemate”

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 09 November 2007

    ... war between Sony’s Blu-ray and Toshiba’s HD DVD technology. Sony was winning, he said - until Paramount switched sides. In a conversation with the Associated Press, Stringer described the ...

30. Urban Challenge: Opening Ceremonies

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 26 October 2007

    ... the press largely condemned the race as a big failure, Dr. Tether knew he was seeing history made. The winning teams will get money and trophies with the top prize being a cool $2 million dollars, a very ...

31. Transformers sets new HD video sales record

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 22 October 2007

    Transformers has become the best-selling high definition video title (that is available on a single format) within the first week of its launch, Paramount Home Entertainment announced. Hollywood (CA) ...

32. Microsoft steps up support for HD DVD format

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 October 2007

    Microsoft today announced that it will be forming with Toshiba the Advanced Interactivity Consortium (AIC), intended to become an “open forum” that aims to accelerate the adoption of “advanced ...

33. Disney CEO calls Blu-ray victory a "foregone conclusion"

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    ... of supporting both. Meanwhile, News Corp CEO sided with Iger and claimed it was obvious that Blu-ray was a better format.  "The public can tell the difference," he said.  News Corp ...

34. Shrek the Third HD DVD dated, detailed

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Wednesday, 19 September 2007

    Hollywood (CA) - The biggest animated feature film of the year is coming to high-def, and thanks to a recently minted exclusivity agreement with Dreamworks, it will be available only on HD DVD. Shrek ...

35. TG Daily Coverage: AMD's Barcelona launch event

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ...   In the best tradition of similar product launches AMD chose to open its product introduction with a CGI video, titled "QC-64:  Contains imagery of power, speed and virtualization."  ...

36. Vudu service offers direct-to-set-top video downloads

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 06 September 2007

    Vudu, a new video download service, was announced this week, along with proprietary set-top boxes designed to deliver downloadable high definition movies. New York (NY) - Vudu, a new video download service, ...

37. Background: SSE5 to give AMD faster compute abilities

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 31 August 2007

    ... They can be viewed logically like this.   SIMD was first introduced for integers only with MMX.  It was then extended to 32-bit floating points with SSE.  SSE2 brought 64-bit floating ...

38. Warner exec in charge of high definition DVDs steps down

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 24 August 2007

    ... DVD. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Nickerson is leaving his post at Warner to pursue other plans.  With Paramount's eyebrow-raising announcement to back HD DVD exclusively earlier this ...

39. Paramount and Dreamworks go HD-DVD: Sony’s curse continues

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 21 August 2007

    ... Disk for Data, HiFD, Music Clip and the Super Audio CD.  They had one success with the 3.5” floppy drive and negotiated out of the Multi-Media Disk to create the DVD with Toshiba and Phillips. ...

40. Paramount, Dreamworks go HD DVD

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 20 August 2007

    ... begin with the release of Blades of Glory on August 28, followed by Transformers and Shrek the Third. Today’s announcement does not include films directed by Steven Spielberg as his films are not ...

41. Blockbuster to buy Movielink

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 09 August 2007

    Though Blockbuster has flip-flopped on the idea of digital downloads in the past, it has now reportedly entered the market with a confirmed deal to acquire Movielink. Dallas (TX) - Though Blockbuster ...

42. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 01 July 2007

    ... recent Top 500 list has all five of their primary workhorses listed. Three of them were even in the top 100 with Abe debuting at #8. To walk by the facility you would have no idea what's going on inside. ...

43. Buy a Blu-ray player, get five free movies

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 28 June 2007

    ... the United States. The free movie offer follows on the heels of a similar deal given by the HD DVD association.  Several player makers are giving free movies away with a purchase of an HD DVD player.  ...

44. Apple in talks to launch film rental service: report

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Monday, 11 June 2007

    Apple, maker of MacBook laptops and iPod digital media players, is in advanced talks with Hollywood's largest movie studios about launching an online film rental service to challenge cable and satellite ...

45. Samsung announces plans for Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 13 April 2007

    ... to hit retail stores.  LG unveiled the first one earlier this year.  Both manufacturers previously only worked on Blu-ray devices. However, Samsung is in a joint partnership with Toshiba as ...

46. Ready, Set, Text! at the LG championships

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 04 April 2007

    ... participants signed up for a chance to win a total of $25,000 for their dexterous thumbs. Pictures from the contest here...   The event was open to the public and roughly 100 people attended with ...

47. Blockbuster eyeing acquisition of Movielink

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 01 March 2007

    ... for 24 hours.  A new deal last year also opened up a download-to-own section of the site, where consumers can pay more to own digital files of movies, which are packed with extensive encryption that ...

48. BitTorrent to offer legal TV, movie downloads

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 26 February 2007

    ... up and up. Dubbed the BitTorrent Entertainment Network, it has reportedly already inked deals with Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MGM, and Lionsgate for online purchases of feature ...

49. Viacom enters deal with Joost

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 20 February 2007

    Viacom today announced that it has formed a partnership with Joost, an online video rival created by the founders of Skype. New York (NY) - After a tension-filled move to have all its videos taken down ...

50. Wal-Mart digital movie store moves into beta

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 February 2007

    ... studios to stay away, with Walt Disney and Paramount as the only two currently available from Apple's digital store. Wal-Mart says all major studios have signed on to provide content to their online ...