Topic: News

The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.

Microsoft are the first major operating system developer to incorporate more complete Blu-ray support into its Windows platform.

Taiwan disc makers are operating at over 90% production capacities this quarter, up from 70-80% despite price increases of approximately 10%, which were recently instituted by CMC and other Taiwan suppliers.

Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing on Apple's latest smartphone stem from a faulty Infineon chip. A software fix is on the way.

Who would've thought that a few thousand daily views of online sketch videos could translate into fame and the web-based financial success that comes with it?

Online DVD rental pioneer Netflix have resumed normal shipping on Friday after a three-day disruption, the worst in the company's decade of operations.

We’re all excited about PlayTV’s launch next month, but would you be upset if we said that the PlayStation 3 telly tuner now won’t allow saved video to be copied to the PlayStation Portable, a PC or a Memory Stick?

Prodisc have said they will continue producing optical discs following its request with a local court for corporate restructuring and emergency measures, according to company chairman Ming-fa Lin.

A patent recently filed by Apple and unearthed by the folks at Apple Insider suggests that future iterations of the Iphone and Ipod Touch firmwear could enable media streaming.

Rob Cohen, director of The Mummy 3, said the Blu-ray Disc edition of his film will look superior to the theatrical exhibition.

Dell has met its carbon neutral goal ahead of schedule, achieving a major milestone in its commitment to be the 'greenest' technology company on the planet.

I-O Data has introduced two new 8x Blu-ray burners the internal BRD-SP8 and external BRD-UXP8.

Punters fed up with having to take their laptops out of their bags for airport security checks might be relieved to know that change might be in the air.

iPhone users can now buy themselves a picture of a red gem to display on their handsets, purely to demonstrate they've got enough money to throw $999.99 at such a pointless gesture.

Panasonic has just announced a new internal SATA Blu-ray Disc burner that hits 8x speed when writing to BD-R single layer and dual layer discs.

Matrox are showing off the digital version of the TripleHead2Go product called strangely enough the TripleHead2Go Digital Edition.

Buffalo has unveiled an external USB 2.0 upscaling Super-Multi DVD Drive. The DSM-SL20U2 is able to upscale DVD movies (480p) to High Definition (HD) at 1080p.

Clips and highlights of Olympic events are to be made available on the video-sharing site YouTube, owned by Google, under an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, the IOC said in a statement.

Social.fm, the company formerly known as Mercora, has closed down. The service, which allowed users to stream their music collections to each other, cites no reasons for shutting up shop.

Blockbuster has expanded its earlier partnership with NCR, and will be deploying about 50 DVD rental kiosk machines in a pilot test.