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Patent App would trigger Zune downloads based on user's musical preferences

A newly posted Microsoft Patent Application appears to describe technology that would provide automatic downloads to a Zune media player if newly tracks from various artists whose work is already stored on Zune or on a user's PC-based library becomes available. Although...

Tags: Song, Microsoft Zune, Playlist, User, Dave, Music Service, Media Library, Media Device, Media Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-20

New Apple Patent app would improve iPhone, iPod video playback

A newly published Apple Patent Application provides technology that could enhance the frames of a video fast forwarded on an iPhone or iPod.The goal, presumably, would be to facilitate viewer decisions on whether or not to play the video at normal speed based on the content in these sample frames.The...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Gates shows off portable media device at CES

Gates shows off portable media device at CESAt the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates touts the Portable Media Center, a pocket-size device that plays music, movies, TV shows and other content.

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, media device

Videos 2004-01-08

Leading Merchandising Platform OEM Ports Media Devices to Windows XP Embedded

With over 23 years of experience building video display systems and digital signage, Impart Media Group had more recently been using Linux and proprietary operating systems to drive its line of passive digital signage and interactive media devices. After successfully building a set of merchandising kiosks and retailing end caps...

Tags: Windows XP Embedded, Media Device, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software

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Music, photos, and weather are beautiful, fluid experiences on the HTC HD2

I posted a quick first impressions of the HTC HD2 yesterday, but as I was commuting home on the train I had a chance to spend more time with the media capabilities of the device and wanted to share a few thoughts and a video with you. As you can...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Photograph, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-20

M2TS to AVI MP4 DVD Converter 1.7 (Windows)

ApecSoft AVCHD M2TS to AVI MP4 DVD Converter is a powerful and handy video converter for your AVCHD camcorder, Apple iPOD and PSP device . It allows you to edit footage from an AVCHD video camera and HD Camcorders in Microsoft�® Movie Maker or other video editing suite on the...

Tags: FLV, AVI, Microsoft Windows, Video, ApecSoft, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-20

Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Google Chrome OS announcement

Just as I thought"All data on Chrome OS is in the cloud""All data stored in the cloud in Google Docs":(YeahThat unfortunately is a deal breaker for me.I'll be sticking to my dual boot Windows 7/Fedora Core setup on my netbook.bad and bad no chrome os for me ......RE: Google Chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FileSalvage 7.0 (Mac)

FileSalvage is an extremely powerful data recovery tools designed to restore files that have been accidentally deleted, have become unreadable due to media faults, or were stored on a drive before it was re-initialized or formatted. It is device and file system independent, allowing the users to recover files from...

Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Intel Corp., SubRosaSoft, FileSalvage, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Storage Management, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-19

The Missing Sync for Palm OS 6.0.6 (Mac)

Whether you have a Centro or Treo, The Missing Sync for Palm OS can synchronize your calendars, tasks, notes and contacts plus Word and Excel files, photos, videos and music playlists. The Missing Sync for Palm OS totally replaces HotSync Manager. Sync your contacts The Missing Sync for Palm OS...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Palm Inc., Video, Mark/Space, Missing Sync, Video Conduit, Palm OS, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Corporate Communications, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Software, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks

What this means for B2B marketers:Trade publishers have tried, unsuccessfully, for years to build such on-line communities which they could control and mine. As it turns out, customers (C-level execs) like everyone else want to own and control their own networks. If customers are increasingly turning to each other for...

Tags: NETWORKING, social networking, network, social media, Astak

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Hornil StylePix 1.0.1.1121 (Windows)

Hornil StylePix, or simply StylePix, is a free image editor with a number of advanced features. Stylepix is an acronym for "Style Pictures". This means your pictures with nice style. Hornil StylePix has intuitive user interface. It is designed to control the selected functions easy and conveniently. Even if you...

Tags: Removable Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hornil, Hornil StylePix, StylePix, Flash Memory

Software downloads 2009-11-18

RER WMV Converter 3.7.2 (Windows)

RER WMV Converter is outstanding WMV conversion software for you to convert almost any video format to WMV and convert WMV to all popular video/audio formats, such as MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, MPEG, MPG, VOB, AVI, FLV, H.264, MJPEG, MP3, WMA, with unimaginable fast speed and high quality. with the...

Tags: WMV, Microsoft Windows, Video, H.264, RER Soft, RER WMV Converter, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-17

RER VOB Converter 3.7.2 (Windows)

RER VOB Converter is outstanding VOB conversion software for you to convert almost any video format to VOB and convert VOB to all popular video/audio formats, such as MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, MPEG, MPG, VOB, AVI, ASF, WMV, FLV, H.264, MJPEG, MP3, with unimaginable fast speed and high quality. with...

Tags: FLV, WMV, AVI, MPEG, Microsoft Windows, Video, H.264, RER Soft, RER VOB Converter, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-17

RER MPEG Converter 3.7.2 (Windows)

RER MPEG Converter is powerful MPEG conversion software for you to convert almost any video format to MPEG-1/2, MPEG, MPG and convert MPEG-1/2/4 to all popular video formats, such as MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, AVI, ASF, WMV, FLV, H.264, MJPEG, MP3, with unimaginable fast speed and high quality. with...

Tags: FLV, WMV, MPEG, Microsoft Windows, Video, RER Soft, RER MPEG Converter, Digital Video, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-17

RER MKV Converter 3.7.2 (Windows)

RER MKV Converter is outstanding MKV conversion software for you to convert MKV to all popular video/audio formats, such as MP4, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, MPEG, MPG, VOB, AVI, WMV, FLV, H.264, MJPEG, TS, with unimaginable fast speed and high quality. with the simplest user-friendly interface, you can do the job...

Tags: FLV, Archos, WMV, Microsoft Windows, Video, H.264, RER Soft, RER MKV Converter, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Boston Acoustics Duo-i plus

Editors' note: The Boston Acoustics Duo-i Plus is nearly identical to the Horizon Duo-i we reviewed a year ago. Not a lot has changed since then aside from the addition of full support for iPhone playback. While the Horizon Duo-i worked with the iPhone, the device had...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Boston Acoustics Inc., Apple iPod

Product reviews 2009-11-13

Viewsonic premieres the VPD400 MovieBook media player for $130

Hard to get excited...It's basically an iPod Touch without the touch, and more importantly, without iTunes. What's the point? When I saw the name "MovieBook" I was thinking it would be something more Kindle-sized and folding. Now, that would be cool. Something the size of a paper-back book that folds...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, VPD400 MovieBook, media player, ViewSonic Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Wifi File Transfer for Blackberry (Mobile)

"I couldn't believe how amazingly easy WiFi File Transfer was to use ... I was equally impressed with the speed the transfers seemed to possess. I was also able to effortlessly create and manage new folders from my BlackBerry and from my computer."- CrackBerry "..great solution that I am surprised...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Chocolate Chunk Apps, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Salling Media Sync 1.1.4.788 (Windows)

Salling Media Sync couldn't be easier to use. Once the phone is connected to a USB port, simply select the playlists and podcasts you want on the device. Salling Media Sync not only uploads the music tracks and podcast episodes, but also replicates each actual playlist on the device and...

Tags: Device, Media, Microsoft Windows, Salling Software AB, Podcasts, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-12