Apple reportedly wants to chop per-show prices in half from $1.99 to 99¢ each - the same price Apple charges for DRMed music. Unsurprisingly, Apple is meeting with a lot of resistance from the studios on the idea.

AOL's venerable Netscape.com site, given an extreme Web 2.0 makeover 15 months ago and transformed into a spiffy social news site, will revert to being a traditional portal again.

CyberLink has announced the release of CyberLink MagicSports 4, consumer software that automatically identifies the highlights of recorded sports programs, and allows users to replay beginning with each highlight.

Acer has become the first major global PC manufacturer to become a member of both the North American HD DVD Promotional Group as well as the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA).

LG is sticking with the hybrid game, with its new BH200 disc player set to handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD at a somewhat lower price than its predecessor.

Sony will be offering this fall two new Blu-ray players aiming at enthusiasts, for prices well north of the current sub-US$500 trend in the HD player segment.

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) on Wednesday introduced new 80GB and 160GB 1.8-inch hard disks - the same size disk drives as what operate in the iPod classic.

Broadcom announced that its integrated Blu-ray and HD DVD system-on-a-chip (SoC) has been selected by Samsung Electronics to power the dual format BD-UP5000 Duo high definition (HD) player.

Yahoo has struck a deal to buy BlueLithium, the fifth-largest US online ad network, for US$300 million in cash, in the latest move to consolidate the fast-growing behavioral ad targeting market.

A new war of words between Beijing and Washington broke out yesterday after China denied US officials' claims that Chinese military hackers had broken into its computers, including that of the defence secretary Robert Gates.

Palm has put an end to the much-maligned Foleo, a "smartphone companion," that resembles a standard laptop and includes a Linux-based operating system, a 416MHz Intel/Marvell processor, and also has a dedicated graphics processor.