Topic: News

Rock the Vote has partnered with Microsoft in a move to help achieve its goal of registering two million under-30 voters in time for this fall's election.

Sony have announced a new version of its Playstation Portable handheld games console that can be used as a telephone, to go on sale in Europe and the United States in mid-October.

The computer games industry has launched an unprecedented assault on illegal downloads, demanding payment from thousands of families who obtained the latest releases over the internet without paying.

While it commonly assumed that Wii cannot play DVDs because of some sort of hardware complication, a group of hackers have actually proved that Wii can play DVD films, and have released a boot disc to let you do just that.

A local court in Taiwan have announced its judgment that Princo, a Taiwan-based maker of blank optical discs, must pay Royal Philips Electronics a total of 2.354 billion yen (US$21.1 million) for CD-R licensing.

Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS) is introducing a new generation of 4 different DVD writers, all with 22X writing speeds and a unique data erasing feature for DVD±R (DL) and CD-R discs.

Even though it conceded the high-definition format to Blu-ray six months ago, Toshiba is back with its recently announced XDE DVD upconversion technology, and a new DVD player that offers the technology.

U.S. communications regulators will be fanning out around the country during the next six months to inform television viewers about the upcoming switch-over to digital TV.

The next time U2 manager Paul McGuinness wants to rant about music piracy on the Internet, he may have to add his own boss to his list of targets.

Warner has announced plans to undergo major restorations of a number of its classic catalog titles in anticipation of future next-gen release on Blu-ray and HD DVD.

Paramount will soon be offering consumers a $10 rebate on select Blu-ray titles when they upgrade from their previously owned DVD version of the same film.

The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.

Microsoft are the first major operating system developer to incorporate more complete Blu-ray support into its Windows platform.

Taiwan disc makers are operating at over 90% production capacities this quarter, up from 70-80% despite price increases of approximately 10%, which were recently instituted by CMC and other Taiwan suppliers.

Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing on Apple's latest smartphone stem from a faulty Infineon chip. A software fix is on the way.

Who would've thought that a few thousand daily views of online sketch videos could translate into fame and the web-based financial success that comes with it?

Online DVD rental pioneer Netflix have resumed normal shipping on Friday after a three-day disruption, the worst in the company's decade of operations.

We’re all excited about PlayTV’s launch next month, but would you be upset if we said that the PlayStation 3 telly tuner now won’t allow saved video to be copied to the PlayStation Portable, a PC or a Memory Stick?

Prodisc have said they will continue producing optical discs following its request with a local court for corporate restructuring and emergency measures, according to company chairman Ming-fa Lin.

A patent recently filed by Apple and unearthed by the folks at Apple Insider suggests that future iterations of the Iphone and Ipod Touch firmwear could enable media streaming.