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19-22 Comdex/Spring and Windows World : Chicago, USA [19 Apr 1999]
Nuggets: No ordinary DVD player...
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [16 Apr 1999]
Glaser takes swipe at MS Audio
News Rob Glaser, CEO and president of RealNetworks Inc., took a not-so-veiled jab at Microsoft Corp.'s competition with the MP3 music format in a speech at Spring Internet World here Thursday afternoon. [16 Apr 1999]
Internet World: Intel's vision: 3-D, talking Internet
News Here's what the future of the Internet looks like for a computer chip maker: everything's 3-D, requires immensely fast servers and accepts voice commands. [15 Apr 1999]
MS Audio 4.0 will eat MP3...
News Think what you like about Microsoft, MS Audio 4.0 is impressive. MP3 may have met its nemesis [14 Apr 1999]
News Burst: MS Audio 4.0, will it eat MP3?
News The wraps are off, Microsoft is talking and the secret is now out. MS Audio 4.0 is here, promising better quality sound and smaller files than MP3 as well as ease of use and built in copyright protection. [14 Apr 1999]
Parents to sue tech firms for child murders
News [14 Apr 1999]
Jesse Berst: Stop the audio-standards madness!
News Ever jumped into a mosh pit? You know, the space in front of the stage where alt-rock fans smash into each other as a band blares. [14 Apr 1999]
Internet World: Broadband on a roll
News To judge by the scene at Spring Internet World this week, we might already be living in a broadband world. [13 Apr 1999]
Diamond's colourful Rio player
News [13 Apr 1999]
Nuggets: Cyber radio spotted in LA
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [12 Apr 1999]
Creative launches MP3 player - Sony prepares
News Long term rivals Creative Labs and Diamond Multimedia clash on a new front today as the former releases the first serious challenge to Diamond's Rio MP3 player in the US. UK customers will have to wait, possibly until autumn. [12 Apr 1999]
Ice T releases tune on MP3.com
News The rap star Ice T reckons MP3 is where it's at... [09 Apr 1999]
Seagram, Bertelsmann to merge Net music units
News [07 Apr 1999]
Nuggets: DVD player in the palm of your hand
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [07 Apr 1999]
Melissa manhunt creates precedent
News The use of tracking technology to apprehend David L. Smith, the programmer charged with authoring the Melissa virus, may have created a dangerous precedent for electronic privacy, according to legal experts. [07 Apr 1999]
Nuggets: DVD can sound great too...
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [31 Mar 1999]
AltaVista goes multimedia
News Compaq Computer Corp.'s AltaVista division has unveiled a new search engine that allows users to look for photos, and video and audio clips. [30 Mar 1999]
Nuggets: Forget movies on DVD - check out Encarta 99
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [30 Mar 1999]
MSN launches broadband trials
News Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Network is expected to begin testing a high-speed online access service Monday, in a move that could bode well for the Baby Bells, and for consumers fed up with slow modem speeds. [30 Mar 1999]
Nuggets: QuarkImmedia arrives
News Nuggets, twice a day, every day (well, we do our best!). Software, hardware and every gadget we can get our mits on... [29 Mar 1999]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News This week: old-fashioned journalism, stuck in space without a paddle, Her Majesty's Loyal Anarchist, saddening silliness from academia and asinine jurisdiction ahoy. [26 Mar 1999]
MP3 in the dock as fresh lawsuit emerges
News MP3 is back in the dock following a fresh legal clash between the recording industry and a Scandinavian search engine company -- a move that shows the piracy debate is hotting up once again. [25 Mar 1999]
US Study: E-commerce hits the mainstream
News The latest evidence that e-commerce is catching on: a study from San Francisco research firm Odyssey LP shows that half of online households have recently made online purchases. [23 Mar 1999]
MP3 revolution? Hardly...
News A music revolution was promised at a London press conference last week, when Edinburgh-based Memory Corporation unveiled the latest kit to exploit the phenomenon that is MP3. [22 Mar 1999]
