Posted August 4, 2006 
Comments(0) Apple Computer has made a strategic alliance with General Motors, Ford and Mazda in order to produce cars with iPod compatible car audio systems. This alliance means that more than 70 percent of the 2007 model vehicles sold in the U.S. is iPod compatible. This will definitely give Apple a significant edge over the competitors.
Posted August 4, 2006 Comments(0) Philips BenQ Digital Storage has been reorganized to manage Philips’ patent royalties for optical disc drives (ODDs) with operations to begin on August 7, according to DigiTimes.
Posted August 3, 2006 Comments(0) Verbatim announced today the world’s first Mini DVD-R Dual Layer (DL) disc. Measuring only three inches (8cm) in diameter, the new discs provide nearly a full hour of continuous video capture time or 2.66GB of storage capacity on a single side. Verbatim Mini DVD-R DL media will be available at the end of August 2006 in North America, where the new Canon DC22 Mini DVD-R DL-compatible camcorder will be launched. Shipments to other parts of the world will begin when the new Mini DVD-R DL-compatible camcorders become available locally.
Posted August 2, 2006 Comments(0) In ZDNet blogs there is an interesting entry by John Carrol discussing the differences of the emerging high definition formats. The article discusses manufacturing cost, video encoding, DVD compatible hybrid discs, interactivity and other in-depth issues. There is some good reading in this article, but it seems to be perhaps a bit biased towards HD-DVD. The writer has been working for Microsoft since 2005, so…
