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Article | 9/01/2008 CES - OLED TVs shine at CES

Two of the world's largest consumer electronics companies are displaying flat-screen TVs at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that are...

Article | 9/01/2008 Microsoft: No HD DVD Xbox

Microsoft has no plans to add HD DVD capabilities to its Xbox console, despite rumors to contrary.

Article | 8/01/2008 Microsoft 'stands behind' HD DVD despite setbacks

Despite Warner Bros' recent decision to back Blu-ray (and Paramount's rumoured reversal), Microsoft says it is standing by its decision to support HD ...

Article | 8/01/2008 Sony-BMG to sell DRM-free music downloads through stores

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will crack open the door to its music vaults on Jan. 15, taking the DRM copy-prevention wrapper off a limited selection o...

Article | 8/01/2008 CES - Philips improves technology, design in new LCD TVs

Philips Consumer Electronics has thrown its full support behind the Blu-ray high-definition DVD format, adding a new Blu-ray DVD player and declaring ...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Warner's Blu-ray Disc move has industry buzzing

The decision by Warner Bros. to drop HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc for high-definition movies has set the electronics industry abuzz. Announced on t...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - LG to launch 60-inch thin TVs, show UMPC at CES

LG Electronics will later this year launch a 60-inch flat-panel TV that is just 45 millimeters thick, the company announced Sunday at the Internationa...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Samsung to show 14, 31-inch OLEDs, quad-HD prototype TV

Samsung Electronics unveiled Sunday two ultra-thin TVs and a prototype LCD (liquid crystal display) TV with four times the definition of today's most ...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Toshiba defiant on HD DVD: It ain't dead yet

Two days after it lost an important ally in the high-definition format battle, Toshiba put on a defiant face at the Consumer Electronics Show and decl...

Article | 7/01/2008 CES - Warner Bros dumps HD DVD, to go Blu-ray exclusive

Warner Bros., the only major movie studio to release titles on both of the rival high-definition video disc formats, has decided to drop HD DVD and ex...

Article | 28/12/2007 Group warns of sites offering unlicensed music

People who received MP3 players as holiday gifts may want to steer clear of some Web sites that claim to offer legal music but don't have licensing ag...

Article | 20/12/2007 Soundbuzz offers lossless downloads in Singapore

Online music store Soundbuzz is offering customers in Singapore the ability to purchase lossless audio files.

Article | 19/12/2007 MPAA wins copyright case against TorrentSpy

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won a lawsuit against the operators of TorrentSpy.com, with the judge ruling in favor of the MPAA...

Article | 13/12/2007 The world in an iPod soon

In the foreseeable future, all the world's content will fit in the palm of your hand, according to Google, which made some fascinating IT predictions ...

Article | 13/12/2007 Led Zeppelin clips may be hard to wipe off YouTube

YouTube's technology for finding videos posted without the copyright holder's permission may be useless to identify footage posted to the site from Le...

Article | 12/12/2007 Free MacBooks underpin live success for indie rocker

A little bit of chutzpah has gone a long way for one musician. Concert goers at last weekend's Homebake music festival in Sydney were the latest to fi...

Article | 11/12/2007 Exploit menaces media players from Microsoft, AOL

Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft and AOL, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (cod...

Article | 7/12/2007 Porn treasure trove unearthed: Aussie pirates pay $1.35 million

A concurrent raid on two adult stores in Sydney has lead to the discovery of a large scale adult movie piracy operation, and has resulted in a payment...

Article | 7/12/2007 Sony claims high def lead as Toshiba targets retailers

The battle for HD supremacy notched up another gear this week with the Blu-ray camp claiming to have near-domination of local hardware and software sa...

Article | 5/12/2007 DOJ: $222,000 award in RIAA copyright case not excessive

The U.S. Department of Justice says a US$222,000 damage award in a music copyright infringement case won recently by the Recording Industry Associatio...