Stories about: Media Technology

The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet.

Apple's walled-garden approach places unnecessary limitations on its online educational content.

A new open source group, the Annodex Foundation, will be launched at the Australian Linux Conference being held in New Zealand this week.

The effort spearheaded in the US to require people building voice technologies to code in wiretapping from the beginning of development, is currently the gravest threat to cyber-freedom, according to Brad Templeton from the Electronic Frontier Foundation who spoke at AUUG 2005 today.

RealNetworks Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rob Glaser has urged Apple Computer's CEO Steve Jobs to partner its digital music businesses against rival Microsoft, according to a report published Thursday in The New York Times online edition.

IBM Tuesday introduced what it claims is the highest-capacity and most powerful tape storage device in the world, the TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592.

Microsoft has chosen InterVideo to port its Windows Media technology to consumer electronic products based on the open source Linux operating system.

RealNetworks Inc. Monday unveiled new software that can distribute streamed audio and video in a range of formats, including rival Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media format, and announced a shared source code initiative that is backed by a slew of industry players.