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Sony drops lawsuit; US Apex agrees to pay DVD royalties
Sony Corp. (SNE) said it will drop its lawsuit against Apex Digital Inc. after the U.S. firm agreed to pay... -
AOpen announces "ESW-884" slim CD-RW with USB 2.0 & 1394a interface
AOpen Computer B.V.which provides international components solutions for PCs, launches a interface USB2.0/IEE1394a CD Rewriter AOpen ESW-884, ideal for mobile... -
Microsoft chooses sides in DVD war
Microsoft has decided to support one of two competing formats for popular DVD recording technology, a decision that is intended... -
Sony sues Apex for DVD patent infringement
Sony Corp said Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit against privately owned Californian firm Apex Digital Inc. for infringements of... -
Sanyo Japan announces "Drive-Open-Architecture" (DOA)
Sanyo Japan announced today "Drive-Open-Architecture" (DOA) function for Sanyo based recorders. Sanyo has developed a library that inquire several information... -
IBM Technical Leaders Recognized For Pixie Dust, Thin-Film Media, Servo Technologies
With achievements in areal density and data access time, two IBM engineers are today joining the company's elite technical leaders... -
Pioneer releases its new DVD-R/RW drive for PCs, the "DVR-A04-J"
Pioneer Corporation announced its new DVD-R/RW Drive for PC, the ATAPI type "DVR-A04-J", for the release in Japan that records... -
Sony Japan announces CRX195A1 (40/12/48) P-CAV recorder!
Sony Japan announced today a new CD-RW drive with the codename "CRX195A1". The drive supports 40x writing, 12x re-writing, 48x... -
Digital-Copyright bill inspires flurry of criticism
A digital-copyright bill introduced last month has inspired howls of protest from consumers and high-tech firms who say it could... -
Recording industry collects $1 million fine
That's the message the recording industry hoped to send on Tuesday by announcing it had collected $1 million from a... -
Toshiba Introduces Industry's First 30GB Per Platter 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Family
Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor, high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced a... -
Iomega Offers New Hard Drives
The San Diego data storage company"s HDD Portable Hard Drive and HDD External Hard Drive are based on Iomega"s Peerless... -
Fujitsu and Adaptec Annouce Interoperability of Enterprise Storage Solutions
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA), and Adaptec, Inc. today announced the qualification of Fujitsu's hard disk drives (HDDs)... -
IBM updates copy-protection software
On Monday IBM released a new version of its antipiracy software designed to prevent people from copying and swapping music,... -
Oak Technology signs OEM agreement for SimpliCD Software with Pacific Digital
Oak Technology, Inc. announced today that it has signed an agreement with Pacific Digital Corporation to bundle its SimpliCD Standard... -
Philips moves against unlicensed DVD products
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. has initiated with the Customs Authorities in several countries inthe EU, border detention procedures in relation... -
TEAC responds about "Mt. Rainier" support of CD-W524E
Many users have been asking when and if a newer firmware will support Mt. Rainier format for the CD-W524E. TEAC... -
Disable MediaCheck for LiteOn LTR-30123S
Some information was posted in our forum, about how disabling 'MediaCheck' for the LiteOn LTR-30123S. This way users can burn... -
BMG to test protected CDs on industry insiders
A new batch of compact discs designed to defeat Napster-style piracy is coming soon to record-industry insiders. BMG, one of... -
HDTV advocates join copy-protection fray
The CD-burning, TV-recording public is about to get a stronger voice in the intense debate over the future of entertainment...