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US Poll: Internet video should be regulated

More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released this week.

Samsung unveils 64Gbit flash memory chip

Samsung Electronics announced that it has built a 64Gbit NAND flash memory chip.

CTIA - Reporter's notebook: solar charger spans continents

A small booth at the back of the show floor is attracting a lot of attention.

Facebook co-founder urges open approach to mobile Web development

Dustin Moskovitz took center stage at the CTIA conference in San Francisco and marveled at how Facebook, which he co-founded only four years ago, has grown to 49 million active online users.

CTIA - Microsoft's Ballmer makes a pitch for unifying devices

Everybody's seen That Guy on an airplane: He's got an MP3 player for music, a BlackBerry for e-mail, and a slick multimedia laptop for creating spreadsheets or watching movies. And he might even also carry a mobile phone, unless the BlackBerry double...

Apple cuts price on DRM-free music to 99 cents

Apple has cut the price of its DRM-free music from US$1.29 to 99 cents, the same amount it charges for songs encoded with its FairPlay DRM technology.

Elpida, UMC team up on PRAM, DRAM

Japanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) maker Elpida Memory and Taiwanese contract chip maker United Microelectronics (UMC) plan to work together to develop phase-change memory chip products, including PRAM (phase-change RAM), joining a growing chorus of chip ma...

Samsung manufacturing leap to make cheaper, faster chips

Samsung Electronics Co. has developed a chip-manufacturing technique able to significantly increase the amount of music, pictures, videos and other data people can store in future iPods, iPhones and other devices.

Symantec: Attackers exploiting new RealPlayer flaw

Symantec is warning users of the RealPlayer media software to be extra careful while surfing the Web.

Attacks exploiting RealPlayer zero-day in progress

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in RealPlayer in order to infect Windows machines running Internet Explorer, Symantec said late last week. The security company issued an alert that rated the threat with its highest possible score.

WEB 2.0 - Viacom chief jabs Google's antipiracy effort

Viacom's president and CEO took a swipe at Google's announcement earlier this week of plans to launch a video-blocking tool aimed at allowing content owners to intercept copyrighted clips as they are uploaded to Google's video site YouTube.

WiMax counts as 3G, ITU says

WiMax earned an important seal of approval last week when the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union certified it as a 3G (third-generation) mobile data technology.

Piracy raids net DVDs ready for distribution

Victorian Police conducted a piracy raid on a shop in Melbourne yesterday seizing over 100,000 DVDs, 51 burners, 14 folders of jacket covers and prepackaged fake copies of movies ready for distribution.

In Pictures: Hitachi to release new Blu-ray video cameras

With the promise of greater storage capacity and high quality video Hitachi have announced two Blu-ray video cameras due to hit Australian shores mid-November.