Tech News #4 - from Europe
Filed in archive Tech News Around The World by tiago on November 19, 2005
One in four teens 'addicted
to video games' - A quarter of Swedish teenagers are addicted to computer games, and six percent of teenagers play more than five hours a day. But computer games are often social, says one expert... Continue reading at www.thelocal.se- Blind and visually-impaired people are increasingly being drawn into the Web navigating their way through the internet via voice synthesizers. However, often they come up against, what's called,the "digital divide"... From euronews.net. There's a video available at the previous link, it requires Real Player.
- Sony unveils video VoIP service - Sony has unveiled a free video and voice service that could spell disaster for blind dates and spouses lying to their loved ones.
According to the PR blurb, Sony's Instant Video Everywhere (IVE and pronounced "ivy") means that "late-working or travelling parents can check in on their kids at home using real-time, high-quality video directly from their desktop" while "online daters can see each other face-to-face before meeting in person"... Continue reading at theregister.co.uk
- Apple's iTunes 'owns' UK digital music market - Apple's iTunes Music Store has a larger share of the UK digital music download market than the rest of its competitors put together, recently published figures from London-based researcher Xtn Data reveal.
Xtn's research, based on a late September survey of more than 1,000 British consumers who buy music online and offline, puts ITMS' UK market share at 54 per cent... Continue reading at theregister.co.uk.
I also posted about iTunes being number one in Japan a few days ago, so yeah.. they're owning the whole market - Universal Codec To Set Sound Free - A unique piece of software that will code any piece of recorded music, or speech, for any device, has been created by a team of European researchers.
The IST project, called ARDOR, developed a unique codec, short for COmpressor-DECompressor. Codecs are the engine under the hood of software media players... Continue reading at SpaceDaily.com
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