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Microsoft Plans Media Center PC Expansion in Europe, Asia

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Undeterred by the hard line laid down by the European Commission in its antitrust case against Microsoft, the software company on Wednesday announced its hardware partners will be expanding the distribution of Media Center PCs in Europe and Asia. The company’s Media Center PC, a hardware-software combination introduced in North America last year, uses Microsoft’s…

Sony Unveils 8-Megapixel Digital Camera

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sony’s digital camera line has reached new resolution levels with the release of the 8-megapixel Cybershot DSC-F828. The new camera is encased in a black, magnesium-alloy body, and is the first to incorporate Sony’s recently announced four-color filter technology. Recognizing that current digital cameras borrow a nearly 40-year-old color-reproduction system developed for televisions and computer…

Dell Pulls Wraps off Consumer Electronics Products, Strategy

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Apple did it. Gateway did it. Even HP did it. Now Dell is finally doing it. What’s the company doing? Getting into consumer electronics, of course. Long viewed with skepticism by PC makers that wanted to cater to the business crowd, consumer electronics is poised to become a life buoy for companies with sagging computer…

MusicMatch Launches iTunes Competitor for Windows

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The list of legitimate alternatives to the music-trading networks that were used by nearly 60 million people last year grew larger this week with a new service from San Diego-based MusicMatch. Similar to Apple’s successful iTunes, which claimed 10 million downloads earlier this month, MusicMatch will let users download songs for 99 cents each without…

Napster Beta Ready To Rock ‘n’ Roll

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

A brand synonomous with music piracy is about to reemerge from the scaly bosom of bankruptcy. A beta version of Napster, brought to its knees by music industry litigation over copyright violations, will be launched next Thursday by its white knight, Santa Clara, California-based Roxio. Roxio, well known for its CD-burning software for both PC…

Napster Lives Again – In Name Only

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Napster song-swapping service has undergone a transformation from hotbed for piracy to legitimate peer-to-peer service in a large pack of formidable competitors. Napster 2.0, to be officially launched October 29th by Roxio, will provide legal dollar-per-song access to a catalogue of 500,000 titles. However, the new version of the once rebellious and free P2P…

MSN Promotes Broadband Video Service

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Promising quality improvements and furthering the competition for media players and broadband subscribers, Microsoft’s MSN is offering free streaming video in a beta version that will be available to all MSN subscribers in the United States this winter. The move comes as Microsoft seeks to broaden its MSN and Windows Media 9 audience in the…

Apple Tweaks iTunes for Windows, Teams with AOL

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Moving the successful iTunes music download service from its own platform to the wide world of Windows, Apple this week entered a crowded marketplace that is still dominated by free peer-to-peer services. Yet iTunes and other paid services, which differ only slightly in their rules for downloading, burning and transferring, take away file-traders’ excuse that…

Napster 2.0 Goes Live, Dogfight with iTunes Begins

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Napster has carried its famous name into the legitimate music download arena, officially launching Napster 2.0 and challenging a sea of Windows competitors, including Apple’s sweet-sounding iTunes service that sold 1 million songs to Windows users in its first three days of operation. Yankee Group senior analyst Mike Goodman told TechNewsWorld that Apple currently has…

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