Decision on Philips CD-R/RW patents unlikely to be reversed
GigaStorage and Princo, the two Taiwanese makers accused by Philips Electronics of infringing on six CD-R/CD-RW patents, think the US International Trade Commission (ITC) would...
Toshiba creates world's smallest hard-disk drive
Toshiba has developed a hard-disk drive that measures 0.85 of an inch in diameter, smaller than the record 1-inch HDD that Hitachi Global Storage Technologies...
Sunplus ships MPEG-4 back-end image processor
Sunplus Technology has started shipping a new back-end image processor supporting the JPEG and MPEG-4 formats since October, with current shipments estimated at 100,000-200,000 units...
Philips will launch open digital media system soon
Philips said on Tuesday it was six months away from launching a system against illegal copying that will allow consumers to play digital video and...
Samsung debuts top-capacity 8-GB flash memory
Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it has rolled out an 8-gigabyte NAND-type flash memory chip, the world's largest in capacity. NAND is a high-density memory...
TEAC America introduces 8X DVD+R/RW DVD recorder
TEAC announces the launch of its new DV-W58E DVD+R/+RW DVD-Recorder drive, an 8X DVD+R/RW IDE/ATAPI DVD-Recorder drive. TEAC's new 8X DVD+R/RW DVD-Recorder drive writes at...
CD-burning suit threatens industry
A legal challenge has begun that threatens all manufacturers of CD authoring software, including Roxio and Apple. Optima Technology yesterday sued Roxio, claiming that Napster...
Plextor appoints Dirk Peters as director of marketing
Plextor announced that Dirk Peters has been named director of marketing and new business development. His primary responsibilities include directing the development of ConvertX digital...
1ClickDVDCopy review on cdr-zone
Cdr-zone has posted a review of the new 1clickdvdcopy DVD backup software. Take a look here. NULL...
Traxdata introduces DVD+R 8X
Traxdata announced new 8X speed DVD+R media. The discs will be manufactured by Ritek and Conrexx Technology B.V will be the exclusive European distributor. Traxdata...
