Tech-company investors this week faced a mixed bag of news, including some historic events, as Apple Computer and Intel joined forces, Texas Instruments (TI) issued an upbeat earnings forecast and Google shares headed skyward in a moment reminiscent ...
The increasingly rancorous feud between Apple Computer and RealNetworks over technology that lets tunes from the RealPlayer Music Store play on the market-leading iPod is refueling controversy about Apple's business model, copyright law and the impac...
Hailing the move as one that brings choice to online music services users, RealNetworks has introduced software that lets songs downloaded from its own music store be played on a variety of devices, essentially breaking Apple's proprietary grip on it...
Despite the fact that major music companies have finally joined Internet services to offer a much greater variety of authorized online music, market growth is sputtering as the industry remains mired in legal and business problems, said entertainment...
After throwing its marketing might, development resources and billions of investment dollars trying -- and failing -- to gain traction in the market for cable television software, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer Monday announced...
Music novices and home-studio pros alike have new song-creation tools at their disposal with the Monday launch of Magix's new versions of its Music Maker and Music Studio software programs in the U.S.
Faced with losses and tough competition from much larger companies, Sonic Foundry has agreed to sell its desktop audio and music production product family to Sony Pictures Digital for US$18 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities an...
A number of technical and business hurdles need to be overcome before gamers see a wider variety of titles on mobile devices, according to developers and online games-site executives speaking at the Games and Mobile Forum conference in New York Monda...
Now that major music companies are starting to go beyond timid first attempts at offering their wares over the Internet, industry insiders are struggling to figure out which types of services and devices are best positioned to capture the hearts and ...
Worldwide PC shipments for 2002 and 2003 will rise, but lack of compelling technologies and worries about the economy are causing users to hang on to their older computers, putting a damper on industry recovery, according to market research company D...
Microsoft's Project, long known as essentially a desktop productivity tool, will make its debut next month as a full-fledged corporate project and resource management product suite, the company announced Tuesday at the NetWorld+Interop show in Las Ve...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it has reached a settlement with Microsoft Corp. in the government's historic antitrust case against the software giant.
To kick off the official launch of Windows XP here Thursday, Microsoft Corp. marshalled some of the biggest names in computing to participate in an industry executive panel and extoll the ability of the operating system to push the convergence of com...
Technology achieved what the largest music companies have failed to do -- knock controversial music-sharing site Napster.com off the Web, at least for a few hours.
In a move that may presage a variety of new initiatives by Napster, the music file sharing site currently being sued by major music labels has announced a song promotion deal with Sputnik7.com LLC, an online affiliate of Palm Entertainment Properties...
