Philips has announced that its forthcoming Thunderbird Avenger sound card will be based on QSound Labs audio technology. The Thunderbird Avenger will support QSound technologies including 3DInteractive (positional 3D hardware DSP processing), Multi-Speaker System (stereo-to-quad processing that supports 5.1 speaker …

Network Appliance , a provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, has announced a collaborative effort in conjunction with Intel and Seagate on a new protocol for direct, memory-to-memory file access that will dramatically enhance the performance of …

The Rio Division of S3 has announced it will license Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) technology from Dolby Laboratories for use in its third-generation Rio digital audio players. AAC is an audio format standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) …

Dell is breaking into the digital home theatre market in a roundabout way with the Dell Digital Audio Receiver. The new appliance enables digital audio stored on any PC in any room in the home to be distributed to remote …

Panasonic has announced July as the date the latest 4.7GB DVD-RAM drives and media will be available in “volume”. These second generation drives will fully comply with the DVD Forums DVD-RAM format and will be able to read 4.7GB single-sided …

AMD has countered Intel and its latest Mobile Pentium III offering with SpeedStep technology with its new mobile 550MHz and 533MHz K6-2+ processors that sport new PowerNow! technology. While the AMD based mobile speeds are nowhere near Intel�s, AMD has …

LSI Logic has beat the rest of the industry by announcing its next-generation Ultra320 SCSI controller based on its Fusion MPT (Message Passing Technology) architecture. Ultra320 is the next generation UltraSCSI technology that doubles the overall throughput of the latest …

Ricoh Disc Media and Systems-Center division (DMS-C) has released a 10x rewritable in the form of the MediaMaster 12X writer, 10X Rewriter, and 32X reader. Thanks to the new Orange Book Part III, Volume 2, v1.0 standard released in May …

TDK has released its own 12X writer, 10X rewriter, and 32X reader in the form of the veloCD Rewriter. TDK bills its drive as a master of digital audio ripping with extraction speeds of 24X (3.6 megabytes per second) and …

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