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Fusion's CA-IP500 Head Unit Docks Your iPod Internally

Remember those "old" cassette players that once represented the center of any car audio system? Well, although they're long gone now (at least from modern vehicles), it would seem that they've served as a model for the device you're about to see as follows, namely the CA-IP500 Head Unit from Fusion, a ...

22 August 2008
13:26 GMT

Apple Issues Update for Logic Express Users (8.0.2)

On the heels of Mac OS X 10.5.3, a number of security updates, as well as the release of Logic Pro 8.0.2, Logic Express Update 8.0.2 is now available for Apple's Logic Express 8 users. The program offers powerful production tools just as Logic Pro 8, including full notation, 24-bit/192kHz resolution and Quick Sw...

29 May 2008
05:56 GMT

Crying Babies Would Improve Audio CAPTCHAs

CAPTCHAs are quite useless these days, especially when more and more hackers develop new techniques to break them. Companies around the world thought having found a solution, namely the audio CAPTCHAs, but the latest reports revealed that these are vulnerable too, even if they require users to enter an audio code. So...

5 May 2008
05:57 GMT

Sony Unleashes Dictation Machine Bonanza

Dictation machines represent one of the most important "weapons" in the arsenal of any professional journalist, this being one of the reasons why they've managed to survive the transition into the digital era without being transformed into just another "complementary" function of a more complex device. And in or...

8 April 2008
13:36 GMT

Pay-Per-Play Audio Ads? No, Thanks!

Advertising is the most profitable way to make cash with the help of the Internet. It's been approached from every angle and direction, it's been considered the saving of many companies that would otherwise collapse financially. Come to think about the efforts going into the industry, advertising is no long...

25 January 2008
07:41 GMT

Chinese Authorities: Nude Material Not Welcomed in Our Country!

China is one of those countries struggling to censor all kinds of material and it seems like the nude content may see its end very soon. The Chinese authorities have started a national campaign supposed to reduce the amount of nudity and sexual content appearing in video or audio material because they promote "bad ta...

7 January 2008
06:36 GMT

Xbox 360 Troubleshoot Audio/Video Connections

Everyone can agree that with the release of every console to date, things have become a tad more complicated each time, as far as hooking them up goes. Even with different colors on each wire that needs to be plugged into the TV set, some electronic entertainment fans still experience trouble and can't have a go...

13 December 2007
13:31 GMT

Yahoo Hot on Google's Heels…

The good side of it all is that Yahoo! finally realized the importance and popularity of computer-user created videos, which often include copyrighted content. The downside is that it did that one year after Google and that it is still trailing in almost every domain the Mountain View based whale.Today is the day tha...

20 November 2007
09:57 GMT

From CPU to GPU Starvation - Microsoft Acknowledges Audio Glitches in Vista

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista, advertised as an evolution in comparison with its predecessor, Windows XP, is nothing short of a resource hog, swallowing every crumb of CPU cycles and digesting even the last bits of RAM thrown at it. And yet, while the Windows client has been experiencing iss...

1 November 2007
08:09 GMT

Fergie's MP3 Files Asking For Money

Security company Sophos discovered one new spam campaign which appears to be based on MP3 files attached to the messages asking for consumers' support for a Canadian company. The filenames are pretty attractive as they use the names of several celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Fergie and others. According to So...

18 October 2007
06:40 GMT

VIA Partnerships with QSound Labs

VIA Technologies just announced a partnership with the QSound Labs company, one of the leading providers of audio and voice software applications, that is aimed at providing a superior sound technology that can be used with Microsoft Windows Vista enabled computer systems, including multimedia, laptop and desktop pla...

26 September 2007
08:21 GMT

Top 10 Linux Distributions for Audio Production

Have you ever dreamed of building your own music studio? I know you did and it may come true someday (or not), but until then here are some very interesting 100% FREE, Open Source Linux distributions with enhancements and features aimed at music, sound and even video production.[table][row][col][/col] [col]1. JackLab...

4 September 2007
08:00 GMT

High Sound Fidelity: Auzen X-FI Prelude 7.1

Auzentech announced that the Auzen X-FI Prelude 7.1 high fidelity soundcard will be released soon, meaning sometime during the next week, as the manufacturing company already sent shipments to retail channel dealers and other distributors.According to the manufacturing company press release concerning the imminent la...

23 August 2007
10:00 GMT

How to Listen to Music Straight from Yahoo Search

Yahoo has just added numerous audio samples for the results of Yahoo Audio Search, allowing you to listen up to 30 seconds files straight from the search engine's result page. For example, if you're searching the Internet for Beyonce's hits, you can listen a sample of Deja Vu, Upgrade U or Baby Boy usi...

21 August 2007
07:46 GMT

Microsoft Technology to Digitally Sign Audio Content

The audio watermarking technology developed by Microsoft Research will find its way into the users' files courtesy of Activated Content. The Redmond company announced a new licensing agreement with Activated Content designed to provide access to its proprietary audio watermarking technology. Microsoft explained ...

16 August 2007
03:41 GMT

Belkin Rolls Out iPod-Friendly TuneCast 3 FM Transmitter

The popularity of FM transmitters has seriously increased over the past few years, considering the fact that they allow normal drivers (that is, those people who don't own some fancy car with a Hi-Fi audio system packed full of connectivity options) to enjoy their favorite music through their car's stereo s...

10 August 2007
03:31 GMT

Dell's Expansion Continues

Dell is taking its business seriously this year and tries harder to climb the ladder to the top computer manufacturers and vendors. The last expansion move initiated by the Dell company is the acquisition of a small, entirely private firm named Zing Systems that is specialized in the making of always-connected audio ...

7 August 2007
03:59 GMT

How to Know If Audio and Video Tapes Are Fake

Magnetic audio and video tapes and their use as evidence in court have been highly contested because field specialists could tamper with the original to include or exclude critical information that could decide the outcome of the trial.A new technology developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

24 July 2007
10:25 GMT

Morito Announces Waterproof Headphones with Bone Conduction Technology

Morito Co Ltd, a multi-directional Japanese company, announced at the Wireless Japan Exhibition the approaching release of Audio Bone Aqua, a new and appealing type of headphones that can be connected to your mobile device or your music player. Why is Audio Bone Aqua appealing? First of all, it is waterproof, meeting...

22 July 2007
12:02 GMT

Google Offers $400 in Credits To Advertisers

Google finally introduced the Audio Ads to more than a half of the US advertisers in a move meant to expand the classic form of online advertising. Back in May, the Mountain View company debuted the audio ads in beta version, being available only to a limited number of advertisers. Today, the search giant did another...

5 June 2007
15:31 GMT

Already the Leader of the Video Market, Google Wants the Audio One

Google makes more and more important steps to become a powerful company in the audio market, the most impressive being the recent deal signed with Clear Channel. If you didn't know, Clear Channel is one of the most powerful companies in the audio market, owning a considerable number of radio stations. Using the ...

25 May 2007
14:21 GMT

Google's Audio Ads Available for Everybody!

Google's Audio Ads, the latest Google attempt to expand the advertising platform, becomes available to all the AdWords members. According to Search Engine Roundtable, numerous advertisers are able to use a new function implemented into the AdWords interface, codenamed Audio Ads. The feature is displayed under a ...

15 May 2007
15:16 GMT

Google Earth to Include Audio Features!

The Mountain View company prepares an innovative function for its downloadable Google Earth, the search giant aiming to implement an exciting collection of sounds. Basically, the new feature will offer an interesting view over a selected area as the program will provide high-resolution photos bundled with specific so...

11 May 2007
13:31 GMT

How to Listen to Google Straight In Your Car

Yep, the title is correct although it might look a little uncanny. Because Google is just an online company that owns the best search engine on the Internet it may be very difficult to listen to some services in your car. However, this is possible using the new beta stage session started by Google that allows adverti...

1 May 2007
03:16 GMT

Tritton Unveiles new USB Gaming Headset

If you've been playing FPS games for a long time you probably hate sneaky players. I'm talking about the guys who always sound invisible. Being able to hear your enemy's footsteps and gunfire is probably one of the most important aspects in preparing an attack or in preparing to die with virtual digni...

24 April 2007
09:21 GMT

Belkin iPod Audio Kit for Car&Home

Belkin got bored of selling iPod accessories one by one and it's now going for the all-in-one box of wonders: the iPod Audio Kit. And they've done a good deed. The kit will probably spare you the trouble of going from shop to shop in order to get the latest iPod accessories. There are five Belkin products ...

18 April 2007
09:24 GMT

Will Linux Finally Have Decent Audio?

I presume that 99.998% of the planetary audio runs on Windows and Mac; the rest is Linux, Symbian or whatever and most of the people really don't care about the rest. Now, I've been talking with one of my colleagues at work about why does Linux suck so much when it comes to audio; and the only answer close ...

26 March 2007
06:13 GMT

The Lossless 12. Or 24!

If you are into more serious sound or - even more - into serious A/V editing and processing, it's impossible not to have felt the need to feed some audio to multiple recorders at the same time so the next autumn won't come while you still work at the previous Christmas movies. Or being a sound technician fa...

22 March 2007
07:53 GMT

Rhythmbox Review

Rhythmbox Music Player is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. It has been inspired by iTunes, but it is a free software, designed to work well under the Gnome desktop. It uses the GStreamer media framework which enables comprehensive audio support for a large number of digital formats. Rhythm...

21 March 2007
07:32 GMT

Gnormalize Review

People usually use a different program for every task related to their music collection. They use a program for ripping audio CDs, another program for converting the audio files to various formats, another program for normalizing the volume level and another program for editing the tags. If you're one of those p...

19 March 2007
07:28 GMT

Google: Testers Needed

Google started in December a beta session for the Audio Ads, allowing the company to distribute audio adverts of numerous AdWords publishers. Although the testing stages were really successful, the search giant sustained today that Google is looking for more beta testers for the audio ads. "The beta has been going we...

14 March 2007
03:06 GMT

Winamp Can Decompress/Convert Audio Files

Have you seen the title? You are probably on the point of laughing at me. Who in the world would want to decompress a 4 Mb mp3 audio file to obtain a wav file that eats about 10 times more disk space? I do! And you would do the same after you will listen to my little story. Yesterday, I was asked by a relative to hel...

12 March 2007
16:06 GMT

Traverso Review

For a long time, multimedia support in Linux was either totally missing or weakly implemented. Nowadays, audio and video decoding has been fully implemented and using one of the many good audio and video players, you can play just about any media format available out there. I'm not saying multimedia support in L...

6 March 2007
06:24 GMT




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