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Can anyone kill the iPod this year?

News Even though Apple is probably saving its biggest news for its own Macworld conference in San Francisco next week, there's little doubt that the Silicon Valley tech pioneer is on the minds of many at CES.

9 January 2006, 10:59

SanDisk stakes its future on TrustedFlash

News The TrustedFlash technology embeds digital rights management software on the card instead of relying on the player to dictate where and when content can be played, said SanDisk, which helped pioneer flash memory storage cards used in phones and...

28 September 2005, 9:51

Photos: Cardboard furniture keeps it green

News Star architect Frank Gehry is known as the design pioneer in this realm. What does cardboard furniture have to do with technology? As prices rise for oil and raw materials (even sawdust), fans of furniture made from cardboard call it more earth...

Tags: interest, designs, material, shapes

10 March 2008, 9:37

Skype 2.0 aims to start video-call revolution

News Though Skype was not a pioneer in offering free VoIP calls, it's become one of the biggest brands in the arena, with more than 58 million registered users. Skype has unveiled the latest version of its popular voice over IP (VoIP) application, with...

2 December 2005, 10:06

Google's grand ambition

News It's hiring some of the biggest names in the industry, from the controversial Kai-Fu Lee of Microsoft to the legendary Vint Cerf, an early Internet pioneer. Google's one-of-a-kind computer network gives it a chance to surpass Microsoft to become...

22 September 2005, 10:08

News.blog: Starters ready for 2007 robot car race

News But Carnegie Mellon, a pioneer of robotics with two vehicles in last year's race, retired its Sandstorm, a modified Hummer that had performed in DARPA's first two Grand Challenges, but failed to finish in time.

19 October 2006, 9:34

NEC chip to bridge Blu-ray/HD DVD gap?

News Companies such as Pioneer and LG announced plans to come out with combination players, but later backed away. A truce between the Blu-ray and HD DVD worlds is still probably a way off, but NEC has come up with a chip that could help companies...

Tags: standards, hd, components, discs

12 October 2006, 9:26

HD DVD and Blu-ray unite for movie rollout

News The HDAA is expected to announce on Friday that among the electronics and computer conglomerates that have joined the advisory group are Sony, LG and Pioneer. Sonic Solutions has managed to unite companies representing the warring disc technologies...

Tags: definition, hd, high definition, solutions

20 April 2006, 9:05

News.blog: YouTube launches online editing tool

News Photobucket, for instance, launched an Adobe-branded editor in February, and Yahoo acquired Jumpcut, a pioneer in Internet-based editing tools, last September. YouTube has begun offering a Web-based editing tool that is apparently provided by Adobe.

18 June 2007, 9:19

Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica, study says

News At the same time, the blogosphere was buzzing for several days about podcasting pioneer Adam Curry being accused of anonymously deleting references to others' seminal work on the technology. Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate...

16 December 2005, 10:29

Videogames that stick it to 'The Man'

News Advertisers, governments and organisations mount huge campaigns to show us what they want us to see, and we want to expose what they're hiding," said Ian Bogost, a partner at Persuasive Games, a pioneer of the new genre.

6 February 2006, 10:07

News.blog: Blu-ray and HD DVD united by 2008?

News LG and Pioneer have given up on the idea of releasing a dual-format player in the relatively near future. Chipmakers such as Broadcom, NEC and STMicroelectronics are preparing components that will allow consumer electronics manufacturers to release...

Tags: universal, companies, disc, electronics

7 November 2006, 11:38

Video for the people by the people

News The sold-out conference, which has attracted more than 350 people from around the globe, kicked off on Saturday with a speech from video blogging, or 'vlogging' pioneer Peter Van Djick. Up on stage is the team from Rocketboom, the wildly successful...

12 June 2006, 9:51

'Skypecasts' will enable bloggers to chat

News Skype was the hot Internet company last year when it was purchased by online auction pioneer eBay in a deal valued at $2.6 billion at the time. Internet telephony provider Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in...

8 November 2006, 9:00

Microsoft to make robot software

News Microsoft is also funding a new research lab, called the Center for Innovative Robotics, at Carnegie Mellon University, a pioneer in robotics research. Imagine a world with Windows-powered robots that can perform household chores, schedule...

20 June 2006, 9:37