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Sony brings better pricing and more digital content from E3 2008

Sony announces a new price for the 80GB Core Pack PS3 for September. The PlayStation store will now deliver TV shows and movies--in standard or high definition--that you can watch on your PS3 or your PSP. 'Gran Turismo' gets its own TV channel, and we get sneak peeks at 'DC...

Tags: Sony Corp., Pricing Strategy, Digital Content, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Game Players, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, News, E3, Sony, Gaming

Videos 2008-07-16

Amazon bolsters Kindle catalog, inks pact with Simon & Shuster

Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Simon & Shuster, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System: Solution Brief

Digital content growth is starting to create real challenges for IT managers these days. Between increasingly complex software applications and increasingly powerful capture devices, the size of the average file at most companies is growing, and the need for more storage is becoming increasingly urgent. The Extreme Data Storage System...

Tags: Data Storage, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Digital Content, Digital Content Growth, Extreme Data Storage System, HP Extreme Data Storage, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-05-01

Privacy-Preserving Audit and Extraction of Digital Contents

A growing number of online services, such as Google, Yahoo!, and Amazon, are starting to charge users for their storage. Customers often use these services to store valuable data such as email, family photos and videos, and disk backups. To make storage services accountable for data loss, this paper presents...

Tags: Digital Content, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-04-30

17% of Internet users bought digital content

17% of internet users purchase digital content over the internet. They have ever paid to download digital content such as a newscast, sporting event, or a radio show, according to Pew Internet. Men were more likely to say they had paid for content than women by a 20% to 13%...

Tags: Internet User, Digital Content, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-02-20

On key Internet digital content policing issue: Verizon good, AT&T bad

Saul Hansell, the thought-leader  on the NY Times Bits blog, has a very interesting conversation with Tom Tauke, Verizon's executive veep for public affairs. Although Tauke doesn't specifically mention Verizon's largest direct telco competitor AT&T, he- unlike AT&T, isn't enthusiastic about doing the bidding of major digital...

Tags: Internet, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Digital Content, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-06

US kids spend between $6-12 a month on digital content

On average, kids $6-12 on some type of digital content each month and between $13 and $18 on physical content, according to NPD. by NB

Tags: Digital Content, NB

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues

Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continuesDRMGiven, as you put it, "Amazon’s march into DRM-free music distribution", why are they now marching the opposite way, into DRM-laden audio book distribution? Clearly, that's not what customers want, and we intend to make that very clear.RE: Amazon.com buys Audible;...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Audible Inc., Amazon.com Inc., digital content

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues

Amazon.com's march into digital distribution of content continues--this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million. In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said it will acquire Audible, which provides digital spoken word content--audio versions of books, newspapers and other programming. Audible offers more than 80,000 programs....

Tags: Audible Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Carrara (zip)

Carrara 6 provides 3D figure posing and animation, modeling, environment creation, and rendering tools within a single application. Robust, advanced, and easy to use, Carrara 6 is recognized as the complete, all-in-one 3D solution for digital content creators of many industries including magazine, comic book, newspaper, TV and film -...

Tags: 3D, Environment, Digital Content, Carrara 6, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-01-08

Don't like DRM, then look to Neuros to free your digital content

Don't like DRM, then look to Neuros to free your digital contentThis would make it easier to automateI agree with your support of the issue. It would be a lot less hassle to setup the server to automatically convert your content to many, many formats. There are several...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Neuros, digital content

Discussion threads 2007-12-19

Don't like DRM, then look to Neuros to free your digital content

I have reviewed a couple of Neuros Technology media capture devices in the past and am currently evaluating their OSD product. The Neuros OSD allows you to capture video content from a number of sources and legally store it and convert it to mobile format so you can consume it...

Tags: Digital-rights Management, Digital Content, Neuros OSD, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-12-19

HP's Hurd: Digital content will force enterprise IT overhaul

HP's Hurd: Digital content will force enterprise IT overhaulView the world with children's eyes!Good approach. View the world with children's eyes!Several aspects of her question come to my mind:- Literally: Why isn't there a search box on every site?- Why aren't top consulting companies applying state-of-the art Web 2.0 publishing...

Tags: digital content, Hewlett-Packard Co., information technology

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

Carrara (exe)

Carrara 6 provides 3D figure posing and animation, modeling, environment creation, and rendering tools within a single application. Robust, advanced, and easy to use, Carrara 6 is recognized as the complete, all-in-one 3D solution for digital content creators of many industries including magazine, comic book, newspaper, TV and film -...

Tags: 3D, Environment, Digital Content, Carrara 6, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2007-12-12

HP's Hurd: Digital content will force enterprise IT overhaul

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday that the company plans to cut costs more while retooling investments to focus on digital content and software as a percentage of revenue growth. Hurd added that demand for digital content will force enterprises to overhaul technology infrastructure. First, the cost issue. Hurd...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Mark Hurd, Digital Content, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Skype's future plans may include sampling, selling of eBay digital content

Skype's future plans may include sampling, selling of eBay digital contentSampling? Selling??How about focusing on the phone and Video-conferencing? There have been a few problems recently that paying subscribers are not happy with (0207 number, anyone?) ... So eBay, fix the problems, get a better support reputation for...

Tags: eBay Inc., eBay digital content, future plan, digital content, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

Skype's future plans may include sampling, selling of eBay digital content

That's what Business Week writer (and fellow Portlander, I might add) Olga Kharif seems to think.In an article she posted earlier today, Olga says that Skype -owner eBay isn't giving up yet. Citing sources, Olga maintains that the next major Skype software upgrade, anticipated early next year, could...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Digital Content, Olga, Corporate Communications, Software Upgrade, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-29

EyeHome (dmg)

EyeHome allows you to access the digital content you have stored on your Mac - photos, music, video, movies and enjoy it on your TV and home entertainment system. EyeHome features an easy-to-use and remote-controlled TV interface. From the main menu's list of EyeTV recorded television, Movies, Music, Pictures and...

Tags: Digital Content, EyeHome, Home Entertainment, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-11-21

Are Amazon and Apple on a digital content collision course?

Are Amazon and Apple on a digital content collision course?This is a GOOD thingWhen it all comes unglued, they can blame each other.Don't waste your time, Apple.There's no doubt that Apple Jonathon Ivie could come up with a beautiful e-book reader, but it wouldn't sell any better than Amazon's...

Tags: E-books, Digital music, Digital media, Grade school student, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., digital content collision, digital content

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Are Amazon and Apple on a digital content collision course?

With the introduction of its Kindle ebook reader, music and video services, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is stepping further into the magic kingdom of Steve Jobs' Apple. In fact, Bezos and Jobs seem to be on a collision course. Apple doesn't have an ebook...

Tags: Apple Inc., Books, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-19