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DRM-Free Music Plays for Microsoft. Sorry, Apple

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:30:16 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is getting exactly what he asked for nearly a year ago: Industry movement away from DRM music. But the DRM freedom he wanted is looking more like DRM freedom from Apple.... Read more...

Apple plays Mobile Operators over Japanese iPhone Launch

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:12:44 +0000

Apple Inc is playing Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo Inc against No. 3 carrier Softbank Corp (9984.T: Quote, Profile, Research) on selling the iPhone in Japan, meeting executives from both companies, sources said on... Read more...

ASRock plays Frankenstein

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:51:42 +0000

ASRock's latest AliveDual eSATA2 motherboard combines the M1695 chipset, originally designed by ULi, with Nvidia's nForce 3 250, which launched in 2003, to create a modern mash-up that may sound bizarre, but is also strangely... Read more...

Microsoft Plays Catch-Up In Server Virtualization

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:55:40 +0000

Microsoft arrived late to the virtualization market and still has holes in its product portfolio. As it fights for market share, partners say Microsoft's traditional strategy of pricing competitors out of the market will be... Read more...

Virgin plays chicken with Sky

Steven Parker — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:15:13 +0000

Virgin Media is threatening to take Sky to court to resolve the dispute over payment for some Sky channels that until last week were part of Virgin's TV service. While Virgin says that attempts to... Read more...

Hybrid HD-DVD media plays on standard DVD player

Fred Derf — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:13:07 +0000

Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a HD-DVD disc that will play on a conventional DVD player. It's a dual-layer disc that can store 15GB of high-resolution HD-DVD data on one layer and 4.7GB of standard... Read more...

'Grand Theft Auto' publisher plays it safe

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:07:31 +0000

Take Two Interactive Software, a game publisher with such portfolio entries as "Manhunt," "State of Emergency," and the massively popular "Grand Theft Auto" series, has decided to cancel development on another controversal game, "Snow." The... Read more...

Microsoft Plays Politics

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:52:24 +0000

In 2002, approaching a final deal with the Justice Department in its antitrust case, Microsoft flew one of Sen. John Warner's staffers to Seattle. During the two-day tour of Microsoft's campus, Chris DeLacy was briefed... Read more...

Google plays down Microsoft search plans

Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:36:07 +0000

A Google executive downplayed the looming threat of search competition from Microsoft, saying his company doesn't expect to see a credible product from the software giant for years. "Rather than worry about some... Read more...

New Handheld System Plays NES Games

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:34:53 +0000

Gametech, the makers of NeoFami and AdoFami, will release a standalone console that lets players use their original Famicom (Japanese NES) cartridges to play games. In line with the retro-Famicom fervor that's hitting... Read more...

Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint

Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:48:23 +0000

Apple's Keynote is the first major-company presentation software in years to step up to bat against ruling giant Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT). As an instructor and conference speaker, and as a Mac owner who uses PowerPoint... Read more...

AMD plays on Intel chipset instabilties

Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:50:28 +0000

Thanks Nautica for your post in BPN. Chip firm AMD has quietly dissed its much bigger competitor Intel by claiming that the latter's 845G/GL chipset crashes peoples' machines. According... Read more...

ICANN plays safe with new domain plans

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:56:33 +0000

The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers is proposing that three new top-level domains be added to the internet, but plans currently under discussion call for a limited roll-out that would focus on niche... Read more...

Apple plays up .Mac subscriptions

Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:08:15 +0000

Apple revealed that 100,000 people had signed up for the company's .Mac online subscription service. But the number pales in comparison with the estimated 2.5 million people who subscribed to the earlier, free service, known... Read more...

AMD's Athlon plays catch-up with Intel

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:39:07 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices will rev up the performance of its Athlon XP processor with new models, due later this month. The chipmaker will introduce, at a minimum, an Athlon XP 2400+ and an Athlon XP... Read more...

AMD plays Duron-Celeron catchup

Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:41:43 +0000

Intel is set to introduce its 400MHz Willamette-128K Celerons any week now and we're told by the motherboard manufacturers that will give it a big performance boost. But can AMD catch up right at the... Read more...