Topic: News

Following in the footsteps of rival CBS, NBC said Wednesday that it will allow users to post snippets of popular NBC news and sports programs to their personal Web sites. Programs to initially be offered include Meet the Press, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Dateline NBC and programming from NBC Sports, DotComedy.com, and iVillage.com.

DVD guru Flash has posted his latest review which asks the question whether 20x burning is all it's cracked up to be. Is the 4 Minute Burn just a myth? Find out by reading 20x Speed Burning! is it Really Faster?.

UK Members of Parliament (MPs) are claiming Ipods, plasma TV screens and other perks of the job on their expense accounts, The Sunday Times claimed.

Mozilla.org has updated Firefox to version 2.0.0.4, with the new version mainly featuring security fixes.

With dominance of the market for high-definition movie discs still up in the air, Sony is including a small surprise with the new Blu-ray disc player it is shipping this week: a price tag $100 lower than previously announced.

Nintendo's Wii video game console outsold rival Sony's PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan in May, according to research company Enterbrain.

The BBC Trust (the body that oversees the BBC) wants to find out what viewers and listeners think about the BBC's proposed new high definition television channel.

Online retailer CD-Wow must pay £41m to British record companies after breaking a deal to stop selling imported cheap albums in the UK.

Microsoft has denied reports that the company has sold a million units of its Zune music player.

LG Electronics has unveiled its GGW-H10N dual-standard Blu-ray Disc (BD)/HD DVD optical drive in Taiwan with availability of the device on the island scheduled for early July at a recommended retail price of NT$39,900 (US$1,208, £609).

Apple's iTunes Store has started selling thousands of songs without copy protection, marking the trendsetting company's latest coup and a model for what analysts say will likely become a pattern for online music sales.

The “high-definition” TV shows ABC.com plans to debut in early July will be extremely compressed versions that -- while saving on bandwidth -- will not be comparable to the HDTV services cable or satellite providers currently offer.

Digital video recorders are a leading reason for the slide in US television viewing this year, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Malaysian cinema staff are using night goggles to stop pirates from filming new releases then whacking them onto DVD.

Spam messages exploiting the publicity surrounding the release of the latest instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise are being used to trick users into installing Trojan horse malware.

Support for Hewlett-Packard's direct disc labeling technology, LightScribe, appears to be on the decline.

Pioneer Japan officialy announced today the shipments of its new DVR-S12J, a 18x DVD Multi-burner with SATA interface.

Press Release: Nero announced today that Nero Linux 3 is now available worldwide. The first Linux application to offer Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD data burning support, Nero Linux 3 has been redesigned to maximize ease of use, efficiency, and speed with next-generation disc formats.

Apple is prepared to launch its DRM-free catalog of music from EMI this week, according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores.

Not content with announcing an 80GB Playstation 3 this week, Sony has, within the last few minutes, released details of the 1.80 PS3 firmware upgrade.