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I Want My IPTV

Watching television over an Internet connection is no longer a futuristic idea for select groups in the area of San Diego, Calif. The testing of a new service called "Broadband TV" demonstrates the power of communications convergence and shows why legacy regulations governing the sector need to be s...

Sony today announced new tools to allow software companies to develop games for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The electronics maker said this morning that it will acquire Britain's SN Systems and has formed alliances with U.S.-based Ageia Technologies, Havok and Epic Games to make more tools...

The world is getting a little thinner, according to Samsung Electronics. Company executives told International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID) 2005 Business Forum attendees that the global flat panel display market would double in size within the next two to three years. "The gl...

Teleste, a Finnish maker of cable broadband components, has announced technology that it says relies on existing TV networks to boost cable broadband speeds more than 10 times, to as high as 100 Mbps and at least 30 Mbps. The company's CEO reportedly said the company will be testing the technology -...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Big Champagne CEO Talks Up the Digital Revolution

Long after Napster, mainstream software giants like Microsoft are beginning to get into the online music fray with file-sharing applications, and Internet giants like Yahoo are moving to subscription models for digital downloads. While we've not quite seen a digital revolution yet, file-sharing pund...

Teleste, a Finnish maker of cable broadband components, has announced technology that it says relies on existing TV networks to boost cable broadband speeds more than 10 times, to as high as 100 Mbps and at least 30 Mbps. The company's CEO reportedly said the company will be testing the technology -...

The world is getting a little thinner, according to Samsung Electronics. Company executives told International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID) 2005 Business Forum attendees that the global flat panel display market would double in size within the next two to three years. "The gl...

Search upstart Blinkx has introduced a new service designed to allow Internet users to receive personalized audio and video content via Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. SmartFeed draws from news and entertainment sources to offer automatic rich media updates. Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillak...

By boosting the bandwidth of its front side bus (FSB), chip giant Intel is gradually improving performance of its Itanium 2 chips, laying the groundwork for the dual-core version of the microprocessor to come later down the road. Intel said its latest Itanium 2 processors will have a 667 megahertz (...

Search upstart Blinkx today introduced a new service designed to allow Internet users to receive personalized audio and video content via Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. SmartFeed draws from news and entertainment sources to offer automatic rich media updates. Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratill...

Apple Computer has reportedly been talking with major recording companies in efforts to license music videos to sell through its iTunes Music Store. The iPod maker hopes to replicate its success in digital music downloads with the offering. Apple said yesterday that it has sold 500 million songs via...

"Speed of Sound" from Coldplay's X&Y album is currently Number 7 in the Modern Rock section of p2pnet's unique Top Ten Music Download chart. And Gorillaz's "Feel Good Inc." is at Number 8. Cool. And meanwhile, at EMI Music, "New album releases from Coldplay and Gorillaz have both enjoyed conside...

We spend a lot of time forecasting the death of Sun these days. Employees have probably forgotten how to spell the word "morale," acquisitions seem more focused on distracting stake holders from clueless executives, and there often seems like a plan to develop more never-to-be-executed, silly strat...

The federal government is moving forward with a proposal to tap -- and track -- in-flight Internet communications, experts tell TechNewsWorld. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, teaming with the Department of Homeland Security, is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission, an independent a...

The Blu-ray Disc Association is trumpeting a survey it commissioned to demonstrate its lead in the DVD standards war. The poll suggests that as the battle between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD heats up, consumers prefer Blu-ray as their format of choice. Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates conducted the p...

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