John Townley

A $79 MP3 player has just been announced by MPuls3, a second in their series of products to support popular digital music formats. The device uses compact flash memory and can write compact flash I and II modules from 4 MB to 340 MB (IBM Micro Drive compatible). There is no memory on board but […]

While presidential campaign ads are debating over “rats leaving the ship,” it may be of some reassurance to know that MP3 (the format, not the company) has some real loyalists on its side. After visiting 75 cities this spring to teach consumers about the benefits of online music and the MP3 encoding format, Bruce Fries […]

Excalibur Technologies Tuesday has announced its XML-based video logger, Screening Room Capture. The scaleable, standards-based video logger will be available as a stand-alone product or as part of Excalibur’s Screening Room product for end-to-end capture, encoding, indexing, management and re-purposing of video content. Screening Room Capture extracts visual and textual metadata from analog or digital […]

At the IBC 2000 Conference in Amsterdam, Virage, Inc. has announced its new ControlCenter, a new workflow application that centralizes the management of all video capture, encoding and indexing functions performed by multiple VideoLogger stations. Designed to allow 24×7 remote access and control of multiple deployments of VideoLogger, ControlCenter allows users to schedule, monitor and […]

Terran Interactive, a subsidiary of Media 100 Inc. , Monday announced its camera-to-web streaming media solution — Cleaner 5. Cleaner 5 is designed to enable web designers, web developers and Internet broadcasters to produce highly-interactive, dynamic streaming media content for next generation, interactive video-enabled web sites. Using Cleaner 5, web designers can embed interactive, multidimensional […]

In an attempt to enlist hackers in the interests of the good guys, Leonardo Chiariglione, Executive Director, The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) has issued a money-making challenge to test software that is designed to protect copyrighted material on the Net. The challenge, in a nutshell, is if you can break it, you can get […]

Wind River Systems, Inc. announced Friday an investment in Tvia, Inc. to jointly develop and market streaming media library, Internet appliance, and set-top box technology. Terms of the arrangement weren’t disclosed. In addition, Tvia will distribute an evaluation copy of Wind River’s Tornado integrated development environment along with Tvia’s software development kits to Tvia’s customers […]

StreamSearch has expanded its global reach by introducing both Chinese and Japanese language versions of its product offering, marking the company’s first foray into the growing overseas Internet and broadband communities. “As a leader in distribution and syndication of audio and video content, it is important to begin a strategic expansion of our offerings to […]

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff this week found that MP3.com willfully violated the copyrights of Universal Music Group, and ordered the Internet music sharing company to pay Universal $25,000 per compact disc, perhaps as much as $250 million. This follows on his ruling in April that MP3.com violated federal copyright law in a in a […]

Digital Origin announced Wednesday a free upgrade to its content creation and streaming media authoring tool EditDV which is fully optimized for Apple’s new dual-processor Power Macintosh. EditDV uses Digital Origin’s scalable software codec designed specifically for the DV format. This enables EditDV, already compatible with the new Power Macintosh systems, to achieve maximum performance […]

Firepad Inc. has announced what it purports to be the world’s first high-speed streaming video technology for the Palm Computing Platform. Firepad claims its video technology is capable of displaying full-screen video data on a Palm device at up to 25 frames per second. The technology will be released later this year in the FireViewer […]

From Moscow, breeding ground of both deadly computer viruses and ace virus-slayers, comes news that Kaspersky Lab, an international anti-virus software development company with offices in Moscow (Russia), Cambridge (UK) and Johannesburg (South Africa), has announced the discovery of the W2K.Stream virus, which represents a new generation of malicious programs for Windows 2000. This virus […]