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AMEX Digital Brings Wireless USB Remote

We have recently brought you news about a product that was meant to capitalize on Father's Day, namely the ESPN's Ultimate Remote. It appears that there's yet another similar product that aims at providing media enthusiasts with a new remote control experience. This time around, the manufacturer is fam...

23 May 2008
11:13 GMT

Stop Praising Google!

There's a trend when talking about Google as an employer. It's the best company in the world to work for, according to a research on 100,000 or so employees from different companies that Forbes conducted, it's got a beautiful atmosphere and great cafeterias, huge opportunities to go after the side proj...

20 February 2008
09:23 GMT

Google Takes First Step Towards Advertising Holy Grail

A while ago, if somebody had even suggested that the future of the Internet was offline, most would have laughed at the thought, while the remainder of the audience wouldn't have understood the concept and, because of it, remained quiet. Google is actually heading towards this in full gear, after understanding t...

12 February 2008
08:46 GMT

YouTube Attracting Media Firms

The launch of the Mexican YouTube homepage on the 11th of October 2007 was highly successful and is currently under a lot of attention from the local media firms that want to broaden their offer to the public.Reuters reports that Exa Tv, an entertainment cable channel has signed a deal with Google's video sharin...

16 January 2008
06:35 GMT

Windows Vista to Windows XP Downgrades Media

With the advent of Windows Vista, the issue of downgrading to Windows XP came into the limelight and got a consistent amount of play throughout 2007. Initially, Microsoft had a complex downgrading process in place that forced Windows users to go from Vista to XP through unnecessary activation pains. As a direct conse...

9 January 2008
10:02 GMT

It's Official! Cowon Rolls Out A3 on November 14!

Close your mouth, breathe and stay calm. Strangely enough, Cowon tries to compete with the big fish again and renovates A2's face, even if the player has almost made its entrance on the market.Previously noticed at CES2007, Cowon A3 is a portable media player available in huge 30 and 60 GB internal memory storag...

7 November 2007
17:30 GMT

LaCie Intros a Personal Media Server

LaCie announced yet another external network attached storage system that is aimed for use in homes and small offices - the groundbreaking Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition, that offers users a generous 500GB storage space as well as the ability to save, retrieve, sync and share personal files over a network. Apart f...

27 September 2007
06:37 GMT

Streaming Media Security Reinvented!

A new type of protection for streaming digital content has just been developed by the Norway-based Secustream Technologies - it defends it from hackers, second by second.It's called SecuShow and it's being demonstrated this week in stand 1.529 in Amsterdam at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC20...

30 August 2007
07:43 GMT

Sony Might Be Fighting the Wrong Battle In This Consoles War

Ever thought that Sony might be barking on the wrong tree when implementing all those nifty media features in their systems? Yes, we're talking about the company's latest platforms that currently sell so and so - the PSP and the PS3. Well, a well-known gaming site might have some good impressions regarding ...

28 August 2007
02:38 GMT

Media Player Classic or How to Watch a Movie While Being Hacked

Media Player Classic is often regarded as a simple alternative for the more-advanced Windows Media Player that provides excellent functionality for most video formats. Numerous consumers are currently using Media Player Classic since it requires a very low amount of resources but offers very good features for an open...

24 August 2007
09:55 GMT

Shuttle's New Mini PC

Small form factor (SFF for short) computers are popular nowadays as home entertainment stations and the computer hardware manufacturer and vendor Shuttle is specialized in just this sort of machines. Now, for the first time ever, Shuttle decided to launch one of its mini computers centered around the AMD computing pl...

21 August 2007
03:00 GMT

Shuttle PC As A Home Media Center

Home media center computer systems are becoming more and more popular these days as they support more functions than the standard, traditional solution used in the past did. Coming packed in a small form factor, with big storage capacities for all the users' multimedia files and powered by low power and high per...

9 August 2007
10:15 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

LG Electronics Reports Its Earnings Results

LG Electronics is a producer of consumer electronics and mobile communication. It has just announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2007. As the LG company is formed of more separate divisions, in order to facilitate an overview of the entire business, the company released financial earnings on a global basis...

21 July 2007
07:15 GMT

The "Media Monster" MOTO Z8 Finally Available

Motorola finally announced the retail debut of MOTO Z8, the so-called "Media Monster" cell phone that intends to bring unequalable mobile entertainment experience. The kick-slider phone is for now available only in Spain (through Telefónica, via Movistar), but other regions of Europe and Asia are to follow in the ne...

2 July 2007
06:33 GMT

Parents Want You Abstinent, the Gang Wants You a Woman Lover

The responsibility for educating your boy gets even heavier with the teenagers. A new research about sexual communication and teenage boys led at the University of Michigan reveals that parental communication, in the rare cases where this happens, focuses on the negative sides of sex compared to mostly positive sexu...

9 May 2007
19:06 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

Album Cover Art Downloader Review

Nowadays, computers are used for a lot of things but while doing those things, most people will also listen to music. That music can either be an FM or on-line radio, an audio CD or a few audio files saved in mp3 format on the hard drive. Moreover, some people like to collect mp3 files and end up with very large coll...

15 March 2007
06:54 GMT




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