Yahoo introduced on Thursday an audio search beta to help people track down music downloads, podcasts, newscasts, speeches and interviews.
The ability to surf rich media content as if it was a series of Web pages may be just around the corner following Australian research into the area.
Yahoo and Google's ongoing rivalry turned to video search this week, with each company touting more searchable content and marquee partnerships.
As Hollywood goes ever more digital, IBM is gearing up to grab some of its business by introducing souped-up technology for production and editing of video and audio.
Australia's CSIRO research organisation has developed a Firefox plugin named Annodex that allows browsing through time-continuous media such as audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through text.
Defhead.com chooses music acts, invite them to play at an inner-city Sydney venue and Webcast the show live to their Web site visitors. Here is some behind-the-scenes footage of the night as well as an interview with the lead singer of Something With Numbers.
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Apple customers must cringe when Microsoft starts talking about Windows Vista -- after all many of the same "new" features have been available on Mac OS X for about five years.
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Intel is investing in VoIP giant Skype to make sure the company's software products are streamlined for its next generation of dual-core processors.
One way to maintain "face time" in business without incurring outrageous travel expenses is to use technology to bring people together, even when they're widely dispersed, with video conferencing.
Instant messaging is often characterised as a frivolous application used mostly by home users. But its business use has increased dramatically in the past year, thanks to a plethora of IM features beyond text messaging.
It may once have been over-hyped and underwhelming, but the quality and cost-effectiveness of video conferencing systems available now are very impressive.
Final Cut Studio 2 is a solid value and worthy upgrade for serious film editors who work on Macs. However, hobbyists should consider simpler software.
Video, audio players get smaller and more powerful.
Connecting technologies for cribs of the future
915 and 925 Express chips from Intel to debut in desktop PCs.
Microsoft's Technical Beta release of Windows Media Player 10 features a redesigned interface that provides easy access to online media stores. It also syncs better with portable devices.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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