Format wars could 'confuse users'
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The world's biggest electronics firms are working on systems to stop digital content being pirated.
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Is Microsoft-served ads slowing down Web sites? Plus, what is Ask erasing, and what are the others keeping? And a 'Knight Rider' comeback and more.
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A series of encodings on printouts from color laser printers to discourage counterfeiting? At first, the idea sounds like the urban legend from a couple of decades ago that claimed you could hear Satanic messages when you play vinyl records backwards. Yet the evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is that the encodings are embedded in color printers from all major manufacturers. Moreover, the issues raised by the practice have caused Free Software Foundation director Benjamin Mako Hill and other members of the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab to begin the Seeing Yellow campaign to stop the practice.
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Data exchange format is just too slow, some say. But there's debate over the best way to make Extensible Markup Language fly.
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The popular video rental service casts its vote in the DVD format war.
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TWO decades after the battle between VHS and Betamax, the worldâs biggest electronics firms are gearing up for another drawn-out video format war that is likely to confuse consumers and hinder the industryâs transition to next-generation DVDs.
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Itâs like the browser wars all over again: Two vendors are battling to win the hearts, minds, and debit cards of users and developers. The browser wars were really platform wars, based on the assumption that the browser would be the nexus through which users would access data inside and outside their companyâs walls. The battle hymn is sounding once more, only this time itâs a ring tone. Iâll get to the connection between the browser wars and the enterprise mobility race at the end.
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The dizzying array of file formats and anti-piracy options will hobble the burgeoning digital music business, says one of the developers behind the format that sparked the download revolution.
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The printer maker's courtroom setback may mean consumer electronics companies won't try to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as an all-purpose competition shield anymore. By Katie Dean.
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com November 16, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. After years of bitter battles between copyright holders and file-swapping services, the outlines of a partial truce are emerging that may soon see
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Dual-layer disc to smooth hi-def format adoption
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&quot;The problem is that we&#39;re getting into another round of format wars and until it shakes out, consumers are not likely to buy much of anything,&quot; Michael Gartenberg, research director at Jupiter Media, told TechNewsWorld.
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Are Corel's file formats 'less secure' than those in Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, as Microsoft told customers in a highly controversial support bulletin? Definitely not, according to Corel officials.
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As consumers increasingly rely on digital media to secure their important documents and valuable personal content, they often fear that changes in technology may render their data inaccessible. Western Digital Corp.
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A curious network performance reduction noticed by many Windows Vista users of the 2CPU forum that became the talk of Slashdot last week has been identified as having been caused not by DRM, as Slashdot users expected, but by a curious prioritization "feature" of Vista that's intentionally biased toward Media Player at the expense of network and system resources.
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The battle between two hyped formats for  high-definition DVD will confuse shoppers and turn many of them  off the whole technology, a London-based research firm  predicted on Friday.
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The handwriting on the wall was written in glaring neon: Consumers don't want an incomplete solution for an expensive technology. So with the format war still being billed as a Las Vegas prizefight, do mainstream consumers even care now?