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Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) Introduces World's First 50GB Blue Laser Rewriteable Dual-layer Optical Disc Technology
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand of consumer electronic and digital communications products, today announced... -
China moves slowly against piracy
China, a pirate's den of intellectual property theft, is showing signs of progress in fighting counterfeit software, some industry insiders... -
LiteOn future products uncovered…
Lets see which new LiteOn products are coming in the next few months… - LTR-32123S/H: Supports 32x writing, 12x re-writing... -
Yamaha announces CRW70 with 2 years of warranty!
The CRW70 from Yamaha represents state-of-the-art burner technology which is lightweight, has a practical format and an attractive design. The... -
Matsushita Elec unveils high capacity DVD
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, the world's largest consumer electronics maker, unveiled on Monday a recordable digital versatile disc (DVD) that... -
EMI shuffles board to win back investors
British music giant EMI Group Plc on Monday appointed former PolyGram president Alain Levy as the new chief of its... -
Philips Licenses Digimarc Video Watermarking Patents
Philips Digital Networks, an entity of Royal Philips Electronics, and Digimarc Corp. announced Sept. 18 the extension of licensing of... -
Universal to Copy Protect All CDs In 2002
Universal Music Group (UMG) unveiled an ambitious plan late last month to incorporate copy protection measures on all of its... -
Police raid pirates in Singapore
More than 100,000 pieces of counterfeit video CDs (VCDs), CD-Roms and DVDs were seized, and 15 men were arrested, as... -
Archos ships MiniCDRW II (16/10/24) with USB 2.0/FireWire connection
Archos has taken the CDRW market to a new level of efficiency and portability with the MiniCDRW II -- the... -
Europe's largest pirate CD plant seized
German police last month seized near here the largest underground pirate CD plant to be found in Europe, reported the... -
Europe begins online music cartel investigation
European antitrust officials are looking into a possible cartel in online music distribution involving two recently created joint ventures. However,... -
Plextor Europe announces PX-S88TU
Plextor today announces the newest addition to its range - the PlexWriter S88TU. This is Plextor's first external, portable drive... -
HP ready to embrace DVD+RW
HP will begin phasing out off-the-shelf CD-RW (CD-rewriteable) drives as the company begins a shift toward more expensive and possibly... -
Philips distributes DVD+R v0.90 specs
Distribution of the DVD+R Physical and Video Format specifications Version 0.9 September 2001. It contains the requirements for the mechanical,... -
CyberLink PowerDVD 3.0 Software to Ship with HP's First DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive
CyberLink announced that PowerDVD 3.0 will be shipped with Hewlett-Packard Company's new HP DVD-writer dvd100i, its first combination DVD+RW/CD-RW drive... -
Plasmon Enters into Non-Exclusive Agreement to Purchase Exabyte Autoloader Technology and Manufacturing Licenses
Plasmon Plc today announced it has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Exabyte Corporation to purchase design and manufacturing licenses... -
Hitachi and Asahi Opticals boosts DVD-Recording up to 100GB!
Hitachi and Asahi Optical have jointly developed an optical-head technology that they say will enable a 100-Gbyte optical-disk system. Hitachi... -
Toshiba announces new 16/48 DVD-ROM
Toshiba Japan announced today a new DVD-ROM model with the codename "SD-M1612". The new DVD-ROM model supports ALL DVD recording... -
HP ditches add-on CD-RW market
HP is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for recordable...