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Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Copyright

Howdy all. Getting quiet out there as everyone gears up for Computex. Funny thing: the Facebook updates I'm seeing show an industry-wide progression...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Miscellaneous

Believe it or not, those Zune rumors that circulated around gadget sites recently were spot on. Microsoft has finally announced the Zune HD, a...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech

We haven't been hearing much about the Zune lately. One might have even thought Microsoft was trying to sweep its in-house music player business under...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech

Another consumer multimedia application can now use GeForce GPUs to speed up video encoding. Nero has released an update for Move it that brings...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Multimedia Software

Meet Lisa and 11-year-old Jackson, the stars of Microsoft's latest Laptop Hunters ad. You probably know the drill by now: Microsoft films actors stepping...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Mobile computing Windows

Music downloads may have just gotten a little more expensive. The Associated Press reports that Apple has updated the pricing structure of its iTunes...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Consumer-oriented video transcoders that take advantage of GPU acceleration are all well and good, but what if you want to do some video editing, too?...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Multimedia

Attention, trendy joggers and celebrities everywhere: the third-generation iPod shuffle is out. Apple has...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Apple has quietly updated its DRM upgrade policy on iTunes. According to iLounge, folks wishing to strip digital rights management protection from their songs

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Copyright

When Analog Devices said it would stop developing PC audio codecs this summer, we expected the move to empower other audio codec providers. That's...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

If you need a new MP3 player this Christmas and Apple's "Get a Mac" ads have rubbed you the wrong way, good news: you...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Despite some of the things we heard this summer, Dell may hold off on resuming its battle with the iPod. eWeek says the Wall Street...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Google is in for a direct collision course with Hulu, according to CNet News. The news site has learned from an "executive with a major...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Internet

A couple of months ago, AMD announced that it had struck a deal to sell its digital TV business to Broadcom. The transaction would...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

In the face of heated competition from Amazon and Apple, Walmart looks to be working hard to make its new MP3 downloads store more compelling....

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia

Nvidia has made lots of noise about its CUDA general-purpose programming interface in recent months. While the company still boasts about CUDA's benefits for...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Multimedia

Yesterday, rumors of a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 re-emerged after several months of silence. Supposedly, Microsoft had contracted Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology to...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Game consoles