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Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard(AP) -- Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. |
 Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to realityResearchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. |
 Big 3 mimic each other at E3: more, more and more(AP) -- One word sums up the announcements made by the Big Three gaming companies at the E3 this week: more. During their flashy news conferences, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony all announced plans for more ... |
 Videogame console giants jockey for throneMicrosoft, Nintendo and Sony are waging battle at the Electronics Entertainment Expo, each claiming to be the true king of videogame consoles in a booming multi-billion dollar industry. |
 Lenovo Launches Complete PC Solution for Small Businesses with New ThinkPad SL NotebooksLenovo today unveiled a complete computing solution for small-to-medium business (SMB) users that includes the new SL series of ThinkPad notebooks, value-added software and unique new services. The trio of ... |
XBox 360 to stream Netflix movies(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal announced Monday with Netflix Inc. that highlights the way gaming devices are expanding ... |
 Japan to scrap iPod copyright feeJul 10, 2008 | pda version
(AP) -- Japan will stop pushing for legislation to charge royalties on the sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, giving in to opposition from electronics makers, officials said Thursday. |
Digital threat prompts movie industry downgrade(AP) -- A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales ... |
Pioneer to sell Blu-ray disc recordersJul 08, 2008 | pda version
(AP) -- Pioneer Corp. will start selling Blu-ray disc recorders in Japan sometime before March 2009, the company said Tuesday, the latest in a string of Japanese electronics makers entering the increasingly competitive sector. |
 Pioneer Develops World's First 16-Layer Optical DiscPioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world. |
 Ice creamier: 'Edible antifreeze' puts the smooth in smoothieIt's Friday night, and the movie's already spinning in the DVD player. You run to the kitchen to grab a gallon of ice cream and a spoon, but you find the tub nearly empty. |
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs SoldJun 23, 2008 | pda version
Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million ... |
 Radio astronomers detect 'baby quasar' near the edge of the visible UniverseAn international group of radio astronomers has found an unexpected morphology in the most distant radio quasar ever. This was done using the world's most sensitive network of radio telescopes called the European ... |
 NASA Mars Lander Prepares to Move ArmNASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow. Mission scientists are eager to move Phoenix's robotic arm, for that arm will deliver ... |
 Bright sparks make gains towards plastic lasers of the futureImperial researchers have come one step closer to finding the 'holy grail' in the field of plastic semiconductors by demonstrating a class of material that could make electrically-driven plastic laser diodes ... |
