RealPlayer 10 jumps aboard Linux heavyweights

RealNetworks' flagship media player will be the default option for a number of Linux operating systems, including Novell, Red Hat, Sun and TurboLinux. Both Red Hat and Novell will aid development of the media player and in return will ship their desktop products with RealPlayer 10 as standard. Other distros will use the open source version: Helix Player. ...more

ATI begins shipping Radeon 9800 Pro

Are you one of those who have pre-ordered the Radeon 9800 Pro? Well, you may be interested that ATI Technologies has begun shipping its well-received graphics processing system. The Radeon 9800 Pro takes over from the 9700 Pro as ATI's high-end offering for games enthusiasts, and shipments to OEM and retail customers have now begun. ATI says that this fulfils its promise to deliver product within 30 days of the official 6 March. ...more

Yahoo! adds video search

Yahoo! has added a 'video search function to its index. Searchers can search from some five million different videos in a variety of popular multimedia files. Yahoo!'s video database contains video files in all the most common formats including media files, including MPEG, AVI, Microsoft's Windows Media, Apple Computer's QuickTime, and Real Networks' Real Media. ...more

Disney to encrypt Oscar screenings

Disney is turning to heavy copy protection to prevent Oscar judges from selling DVDs of forthcoming movie blockbusters to bootleggers. Walt Disney Studios has signed a deal which will use encryption technology from Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, for 2005 DVD Awards screeners. Among the movies protected by the new encryption technology is the eagerly awaited `The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe` film version of the C. ...more

Novell kick-starts a new group collaboration open-source project

Novell has kick-started an open-source project to build a group collaboration server with a donation of 200,000 lines of code from its own NetMail product. The Hula project includes standards-based e-mail, calendaring and address book functionality that can scale to 250,000 registered users on a single PC with 50,000 simultaneously connected users. It is based on open Internet standards, including SMTP, IMAP, iCalendar and the emerging CalDAV calendar access protocol. ...more