Qualcomm plans to integrate Microsoft Windows media technology into many of its cell phone chips, the companies said Thursday.
California-based holding company Acacia Research said Wednesday that it won a preliminary court ruling in favor of broad patent claims covering virtually all streaming media transmissions.
Several industry leaders are joining together to push for the adoption of open standards for streaming media, a move that would benefit vendors, enterprises and consumers.
At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.
Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent has launched an enterprise content delivery product called BitTorrent DNA.
Hey Channel Ten, I'm sorry I slagged you off last year. So your Web site is pretty cruddy, Yasmin turned out to be the queen of the harpies, and Matthew Newton brought shame to you over the new year. We all make mistakes. But before your site relaunches, might I be so bold as to make some suggestions for what to include?
Fair is not what the National Broadband Network tender is about; it's bloodsport, and a fight for survival, and a challenge of the wills, and all the other sorts of superlatives you might expect from an Olympics announcer.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
Last night I visited Ten's Supernatural site in order to test the service. As a result, I can comfortably list 10 things wrong with it.
Channel 10's threadbare online presence stands out among the other TV networks' swish Web sites. But why?
Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
The explosion in drive-by download attacks continues to grow. How has the situation got so dangerous? Are there any "trusted" Web sites left?
Are streaming servers really the future of home entertainment? Networking experts SMC seem to think so.
Adobe's Media Player is an excellent application that is beautifully designed and easy to use. Shame about the currently available content.
RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the industry standard MPEG-4.
Count Windows Media Player 9.0 as a strong but not breakthrough upgrade--if you use XP, that is.
Microsoft cozies up to the music industry to protect rights--or is it setting up a new beachhead for Windows? Can Microsoft be trusted?
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