UK's Sky has launched the first legal film download service offering Hollywood blockbusters over the internet. The company has signed up several major Hollywood studios...

Adobe has acquired the DRM division of Navisware, a privately held company that creates software for CAD systems. Financial details of the deal were not...

The ZigBee Alliance said last week that it would begin designating products as "ZigBee Certified" to ensure that they are interoperable "out of box" and...

Texas Instruments has agreed to sell a division of the company which mainly makes temperature and lighting sensors and controls, under it sstrategy to divest...

In this review, we are going to compare the performance of a SATA II HDD with a SATA 1.0 HDD. For our tests, we used two Western Digital Hard Discs, the WD2500JS (SATA II) and the WD3000JD (SATA).

A judge Friday tentatively approved a proposed settlement of lawsuits against Sony BMG Music Entertainment that would give millions of consumers free music downloads to...

Google announced Google Pack beta, a free collection of software from Google and other companies that improves the user experience online and on the desktop...

Nero announced the availability of its new Nero Digital AVC/H.264 video decoder VHDL IP core The perfect solution for ASICs and SoCs is hardware-based and...

NTT Corp. has announced that an audio lossless compression (lossless encoding) technology largely developed by the company was approved as an MPEG international standard specification...

Thomson and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have unveiled two additions to the MP3 music format. A new stereo extended standard allows existing MP3...