Acer won't commit to pre-installing Linux on its line-up in Australia, despite hinting that it would do so in the UK.
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.
The Recording Industry Association of America apologised Monday to Penn State University for sending an incorrect legal notice of alleged Internet copyright violations.
Apple Computer's new music service could help shift the battle to control digital media away from Microsoft's proprietary file formats, according to analysts.
AOL Time Warner has updated its popular Winamp MP3 player, adding video capabilities that bring the program into direct competition with Microsoft, Apple and RealNetworks.
RealNetworks, the most recent corporate convert to open-source religion, has pledged to embrace streaming media's open-source stalwart in a move that could threaten the popular MP3 format.
Will open source be the trick to topple Microsoft's empire? CEO Rob Glaser hopes so.
Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format.
The Ogg Vorbis project to create a fully open, licence-free alternative to the MP3 format got a boost with the recent release of the first Ogg player for a handheld device.
Microsoft's retirement schedule for Windows NT Server 4.0 shows all sales are to stop in 2003, and support to end in 2005.
Programmer Christopher Montgomery believes the Ogg Vorbis audio format can challenge Microsoft, Netscape and even MP3. Do he and his cohorts have more than a snowball's chance?
The online world is to get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy.
The group of programmers trying to create an open-source alternative to the MP3 format is going nonprofit, hoping to raise funds and give developers legal cover in an increasingly litigious online music world.
Thomson Multimedia is working to develop a new version of its patented MP3 technology in a bid to stave off rival Web audio formats that achieve similar or better quality using smaller files.
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