Microsoft will issue seven security updates next Tuesday, including critical sets of patches for Windows and Internet Explorer. The three critical updates are all for Windows components, Microsoft said in a note on the upcoming... More...

No. 1 movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc said on Thursday it was testing pricing for its rental formats and will experiment with its store layouts to add downloading stations, books or beverages in a bid... More...

Visitors to the IFA consumer electronics show, which opens Friday in Berlin, will have ringside seats to the war over high-definition disc formats raging between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. As the two formats duel... More...

The European Commission has asked several Hollywood studios to explain why they have chosen either the Blu-ray disc or the HD DVD format for movie discs to see if they are breaking EU rules that... More...

Microsoft have announced the file formats for Office 2007, the next version of Microsoft Office which is due to be released in early 2007. The most notable change is the obvious visual change in file... More...

Microsoft intends to submit Office file formats to the European standards body ECMA International, a move the company hopes will allay concerns over the company's level of control over document formats. The... More...

Microsoft is making XML-based file formats the default in its next-generation Office suite. Will users bite or take flight? Microsoft continues to slowly trickle out bits of information about its Office 12... More...

While a compromise standard for high-definition DVDs is being negotiated in Japan between backers of the HD-DVD and rival Blu-Ray discs, two rogue high-def video disc formats may have a chance to sneak in the... More...

The DVD+RW camp, which includes Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Philips, plans to put so-called "double-layer" DVD recording devices on the market by next spring. Discs on these systems are expected to hold 8.5GB, or four hours... More...

Microsoft Corp. today announced at the 12th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) that it will provide built-in operating system support for all major writable DVD formats in future versions of the Windows® desktop operating... More...

Thanks to ice-xp and jago6498 in BPN for the heads up. After a few months of unofficial murmurs, Ubi Soft has finally put a big official stamp on a multiformat Splinter... More...

MICROSOFT IS SET TO undercut rivals in a bid to make its Media technology the de facto standard and - some cynics might add - extend its monopoly from the desktop to encompass a range... More...

Panasonic is trying to tackle one of the major obstacles that has prevented mainstream adoption of recordable DVD drives with a new drive that can read multiple formats. The electronics maker unveiled... More...

Thanks to our own configure for this peice of news, he was stuck up with some work. ;) The consumer electronics giant has begun shipping to retailers DVD+RW drives and discs, which should... More...

Thanks WinOScentral for this rather nice pointer to an interesting article over at PC World concering audio formats and the codecs used to store our music on our computers.. Many people complain that... More...