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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - HD DVD video players have outsold rival standard Blu-ray players by a three-to-one margin in Europe’s main markets so far this year, according to a lobby group.
The European HD DVD Promotional Group claimed it had 74 percent market share in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland for stand-alone players, citing sales […]

Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is an emerging force in the mobile phone business, thanks to the snaking lines of gadget fans who queued up last week to buy the iPhone. But now he faces a headache in an industry Apple already dominates — digital music.
The Universal Music Group […]

Sony NEC Optiarc, the joint between Sony’s and NEC’s optical disc drive business units, last week unveiled its first Blu-ray Disc (BD) burner model, the BD-M100A, for launch in the European market at 600 euro (US$808) in the third quarter, and the price may be an indicator for BD burner pricing by other brands/makers, according […]

Pioneer has announced it will launch DVR-S12J, its latest 18x DVD burner equipped with LabelFlash in Japan early in June, signaling a decrease of the lag in adoption of LabelFlash behind that of LightScribe, according to sources from the Taiwan-based optical disc drive manufacturing industry.
LabelFlash is a disc labeling technology developed by Yamaha Corporation and […]

Art Lebedev Studio, a design studio from Russia who develops innovative keyboards with keys that contain displays, said late Sunday that the first batch of its Optimus Maximus keyboards to be delivered in December, has been fully pre-ordered in twelve hours.
“The first 200 keyboards (to be shipped December, 1st) were pre-ordered in about 12 hours. […]

Just in time for Father’s Day, Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. (”Toshiba”) announces two new HD DVD promotions to help make shopping for dad easy. Working to ensure dads get the high definition set up they crave, Toshiba is offering a variety of rebates on HD DVD players to help create an incredible high […]

Hewlett-Packard has long stated its intention to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD–the two next-gen formats vying to succeed DVD. Today, the company has unveiled plans to ship PCs that can both read and write to Blu-ray, and can read HD DVD discs. The PCs are the first announced to feature LG’s much-anticipated Super […]

‘There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.’ That was the verdict of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, talking to USA Today’s David Lieberman in the CEO Forum at the University of Washington Business School.
While Apple may turn a profit on the highly-anticipated device, Ballmer indicated that he […]

Singapore’s Creative Technology Ltd. plans to announce a new lineup of MP3 players soon, but the company is not offering product details ahead of the launch.
“With the imminent release of some of our exciting new MP3 players we wanted to wait for the press release and the global launch,” said Craig McHugh, president of Creative […]

According to notices that Apple has been purportedly been sending around to its various content partners for the iTunes store, it doesn’t seem like EMI will be alone in its newfound DRM-free status for long. “Many of you have reached out to iTunes to find out how you can make your songs available higher quality […]