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German broadcaster brings HDTV to Europe

A German broadcaster has won the race to bring High Definition TV (HDTV) to Europe. Today the ProSiebenSat.1 TV corporation announced that it has launched two new services offering HDTV to German viewers. ...more

UK PTO workshop divides lawyers and engineers over patents

The extent of the division between attorneys and software engineers over software patents was crystallised at a series of workshops run by the UK Patent Office. Delegates comprised a mix of patent attorneys and software engineers and were tasked with testing a number of patent applications against different definitions of the 'technical contribution' criteria. It is this test that determines the approval of software patents in current law and within the formative CII directive on the issue at the EU. ...more

Apple on course for quarterly iPod sales surge

Apple will sell between 11 and 12 million iPods this quarter, according to NPD's analysis of sales figures for January. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said that the figure is 'based on various assumptions', explaining that it had been calculated by comparing January's data with its proportion of sales in previous years. 'When the second month of data is released, our analysis will likely lead to a slightly different iPod unit figure,' he wrote in a note to investors Munster noted that the estimate is higher than both Wall Street's 10. ...more

2005 review: AMD battles Intel for a multi-core future

A story of the progress towards full dual-core and 64-bit computing, interspersed with the ongoing legal battle between the two microprocessor giants, which started with investigations of anti-competitive behaviour by Intel in Japan. Not forgetting the sub-plots involving the emergence of the home-entertainment Viiv platform (pronounced vive) and Intel's support for HD DVD, the next-gen optical disc format that is battling Blu-ray for dominance. Multi-core Last year, we anticipated multi-core computing (where there are two or more co-operating processors rather than one powerful execution engine) being a key battle area for 2006, and so it has proved. ...more