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The Hard Disk That Changed the World -- happy 50th to the hard disk. The winchester disk (a sealed unit rather than a unit with interchangible disk packs) came along in '73, also developed by IBM in San Jose.
DirecTV: August Launch For New DVRs -- long awaited box with H.264/AVC support. non-TiVo (yuk)
Motorola Buying Broadbus Technologies -- Broadbus is a SW based video-on-demand (VOD) system vendor. This article cites Mot as a cell phone maker, but this probably has more to do with their cable TV business. They provide both headend and settop equipment for cable and IPTV.
YouTube strategy sticks to clips
2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes Sacre bleu!
Amazon Looks to Movie Downloads
Although it has refused to confirm, Amazon has been rumored to be readying its video download service for launch in mid-August. First reported by trade magazine Advertising Age on Sunday, the service is said to offer both movies and episodes of television shows.
Judge Refuses to OK Telco Mergers
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told lawyers representing the interests of both SBC and AT&T and of Verizon and MCI that he could not give final approval to either merger unless he received more information. While both have been given the go-ahead by the FCC, the courts have not yet decided if the mergers are in the public interest.
Warner Bros Offers TV Shows on iTunes
Intel readies WiMax chipset
Rosedale 2 is shipping in sample quantities so equipment makers can develop products while Intel continues testing
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project"
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
Nokia N73 Starts Shipping -- "a stunning multimedia computer with excellent photography features and integrated stereo speakers for optimized audio pleasure"
Sen. Wyden pledges to block telecom bill without Net neutrality regulations.
Intel has been spanked in the high-end server market by AMD, but in the mainstream market Intel is poised to bury the competition by setting new benchmarks in bang for the buck.
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI
"There’ll be multiple Da Vinci chips, but one of the first ones we announced has for instance 10/100Mbps Ethernet, on the chip. It also has USB 2.0 on the chip, and an LCD driver. So if you’re thinking of making a portable media player, for instance, and you’re thinking of giving it network connectivity, Da Vinci would allow you to do that very easily, with a minimal number of chips."
Microsoft confirms Zune rumors
BBC: Digital home 'still 10 years off'
more on AVCHD from Sony
Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked -- Popular VOIP technology, recently acquired by EBay. As a side effect, exposing the protocol makes it easier to block.