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Intel's Barrett raps crypto controls
News Intel President and CEO Craig Barrett called on the Clinton administration to drop its controls on encryption during testimony before Congress' Joint Economic Committee Monday. [15 Jun 1999]
The Rio story - dawn of a new era?
News In May 1998, Bill Schroeder was being pitched on a new stand-alone music playing device. [14 Jun 1999]
A Year Ago: Guest slams Java devices for no consumer appeal
News First published: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:49:21 GMT [14 Jun 1999]
Sony to offer digital music to retailers
News Sony has joined forces with Digital On-Demand to distribute much of Sony's music catalogue to music stores worldwide. [10 Jun 1999]
SDMI approves standards for MP3 portables
News Members of the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Alliance) have agreed the standards for portable music players and a final specification is expected at the end of the month. [10 Jun 1999]
Nuggets: Another day another graphics card
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [09 Jun 1999]
Study: US out ahead on e-commerce
News If you're an American buying goods or services off a U.S.-based e-commerce site, chances are you won't have major problems with billing, shipping, or dispute resolution. [09 Jun 1999]
IBM DVD ThinkPad to act as 'VCR'
News IBM will launch a range of ThinkPad notebooks in the U.K. in October which will enable users to plug them into a TV and use them as a DVD-based video player. [08 Jun 1999]
Nordic Netizens shame British Web community
News The UK may be one of the most Net-savvy countries in Europe but compared to the Nordic regions our Net growth is slowing, according to industry analyst IDC. [08 Jun 1999]
Watchdog slams flipper format
News Warner HomeVideo, distributors of blockbuster movie Armageddon, has agreed to replace all copies of the DVD film following a BBC Watchdog programme last week complaining about the format. [07 Jun 1999]
Public Enemy prefers Zip to MP3
News Online record company Atomic Pop will release the latest album from rap group Public Enemy on Iomega's Zip disks, marking another departure for the recording industry from traditional ways of offering music. [07 Jun 1999]
Canadian crypto companies beat U.S. export laws
News A new wave of start-up companies in the Great White North promise to transform the Internet into a bastion of privacy, free speech, and safe surfing. And there's nothing the U.S. government can do about it. [04 Jun 1999]
Chris Long's Column - 'MP3, yeah right...'
News [04 Jun 1999]
GoodNoise changes tune to EMusic
News Pioneering online-music seller GoodNoise Corp. officially changed its name to EMusic.com and began trading on the American Nasdaq exchange Wednesday as part of an effort to broaden the scope of its business. [03 Jun 1999]
AOL buys music sites - MP3 delivery planned
News [02 Jun 1999]
Internet radio: The sound of money?
News Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into Internet radio this year by companies like America Online, Yahoo! and Viacom for one simple reason: It finally works. [02 Jun 1999]
News Burst: AOL buys pair of MP3 sites
News America Online entered the digital music fray Tuesday buying two Net music companies, Spinner Networks and Nullsoft. [02 Jun 1999]
Independents could be forced out of DVD
News The cost of DVD could drive independent producers out of the market according to Victoria Willis, head of DVD at French publishing company Editions Montparnasse. [27 May 1999]
Beastie Boys go digital
News The Beastie Boys will offer three previously unreleased songs for digital download as part of a fundraiser for the Kosovo relief effort. [26 May 1999]
Public Enemy is Number 1!
News The latest Public Enemy album is on the Internet in MP3 format -- a little late, granted, but better late than never. [26 May 1999]
Web-enabled DVD... it's coming
News Web-enabled DVD, tipped as the next major advance in the development of the high density storage format, was on show at the first European DVD production conference in London on Monday. [26 May 1999]
MP3 - Civil liberties group joins the row
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation is weighing in on the debate over how music should be distributed online. [26 May 1999]
Nuggets: Tiny package is very impressive
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [24 May 1999]
High-tech morphing indie films
News [20 May 1999]
Hollywood's brave new virtual world
News The Phantom Menace, which takes place in soaring futuristic cities and among vast space battlefields, is one of the more visible examples of a world that is entirely computer-generated. [20 May 1999]
