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Article | 29/04/2008 Music buyers turn to digital downloads

Digital sales of music represented 10 per cent of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from six per cent in 2006, according to In-Stat.

Article | 22/04/2008 Nokia's Australian Music Store opens for business

Nokia Australia today announced the opening of the Nokia Music Store, aiming to compete with market leader iTunes.

Article | 18/04/2008 Study: LimeWire still top P2P software; uTorrent #2

LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software ...

Article | 15/04/2008 Sonic upgrades Scenarist Blu-ray authoring suite

Sonic Solutions has released Scenarist BD 4.5, a major upgrade to the professional Blu-ray Disc creation solution. The new version features expanded c...

Article | 15/04/2008 Samsung, partners push mobile TV

Samsung Electronics and several other vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters show this week are demonstrating a pending mobile TV broadca...

Article | 14/04/2008 Sun ponders video codec technology

Looking to boost the Web, Sun is working on a royalty-free and open video codec and media system, company officials said Thursday.

Article | 9/04/2008 UPDATE - Adobe debuts Media Player, video content

Adobe Systems debuted a new media playing software, Adobe Media Player 1.0 (AMP) along with online programming instructional video content on how to u...

Article | 4/04/2008 Sony shows smallest HD video recorder yet

Sony has developed what it says is the smallest high-definition video camcorder in the world and plans to put it on sale in Japan later this month and...

Article | 2/04/2008 Virgin Media targets illegal music file sharers in the UK

ISP first to implement 'three strikes' scheme

Article | 28/03/2008 Rockstar and Amazon to sell in-game GTA IV music

A new partnership will make the 150 songs found in Grand Theft Auto IV available for download from Amazon.com.

Article | 28/03/2008 Scientology video channel's credibility in question

The Church of Scientology has refuted claims by an independent French news Web site, the Anonymous Group and the Enturbulation, that a video posted to...

Article | 28/03/2008 YouTube adds tool to analyze activity of video viewers

In a move likely to appeal to the growing number of companies looking to add video to their web sites, YouTube Wednesday rolled out a tool that can cl...

Article | 21/03/2008 Gibson sues MTV, Harmonix, EA for Guitar Hero rights

The guitar manufacturer says guitar controllers infringe on a 1999 technology patent that protects the right to "simulate a musical performance".

Article | 20/03/2008 Rock Band gets Music Store, update, 6 million song downloads

Harmonix gives Rock Band a major software update, plus an in-game Music Store.

Article | 25/03/2008 iPhone/iPod to get unlimited iTunes downloads

Apple considers new retail pricing scheme

Article | 20/03/2008 Apple ponders unlimited iTunes access, says report

Apple is talking with major record labels about offering unlimited access to the iTunes music collection for a flat fee paid when purchasing a new iPo...

Article | 13/03/2008 Japan investigates sparking iPod

A Japanese government agency has ordered an investigation into possible defects in Apple's first-generation iPod nano after one of the music players e...

Article | 12/03/2008 Nortel provides hope for future of IPTV

Television over the Internet -- known to many as IPTV -- is the technology landline operators hope will let them compete with cable providers and othe...

Article | 12/03/2008 YouTube rival Hulu debuts with TV shows, movies, sports

Hulu, a joint online video project of NBC Universal and News Corp., is set to go live this week with programming from Time Warner's television group, ...

Article | 11/03/2008 The first MP3 player in space

Heroic spacemen risking life and limb aboard the International Space Station are braced for their latest trial: not alien attack, nor a malfunctioning...