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• Sharp and Matsushita swimming along in fiscal 1Q, while Sony sinks
  Wednesday 3 August 2005 – 04:25
  Price-cutting pressure in the FPD (flat-panel display) TV segment pushed Sony to net losses for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2006 (April-June 2005), while net profits at Sharp and Matsushita Electric Industrial remained flat on year.
• Churches pass the popcorn along with the collection plate
  Thursday 29 July 2004 – 07:05
  Churches are augmenting their fire and brimstone sermons with theater-style movie screens as part of cutting-edge A/V systems that can often rival some local theaters.
• A remote to go along with high-end home theaters
  Friday 7 September 2007 – 10:41 in Consumer Electronics
  Arlington Heights (IL) - Bang & Olufsen announced a pricey remote control that not only works with home theaters, but, according to its manufacturer, can learn to wirelessly control any other device in your house that is equipped with remote control func
• Linux, The Little Engine that Could, Chugs Along
  Tuesday 21 January 2003 – 08:09
  The Linux operating system, a low-key 'underdog challenger' to Microsoft's Windows operating system, has historically been regarded by Microsoft as a kind of pesky fly that just won't seem to go away.
• ClearSpeed's CATS purr along at near teraflop speeds
  Thursday 15 November 2007 – 10:27 in Business
  ClearSpeed announced yesterday at the Supercomputing '07 (SC07) convention in Reno, something called "CATS", or ClearSpeed Accelerated Terascale System.

• Coral Consortium: Can't all our DRM systems just get along?*
  Saturday 4 March 2006 – 12:28
  The Coral Consortium's goal is to develop a system of interoperability for digital rights management systems around the world - not to make them all alike, but to create some way for them to talk to each other. This way, when you download something from one service, it can be played using devices built for another service. But is this what content publishers and providers want?
• Analysis: YouTube becomes a popular spot along the campaign trail*
  Wednesday 25 October 2006 – 08:02
  As politicians strive to look for ways to combat new revelations like Tivo-powered commercial-skipping and the continuing transition to on-demand online video, the 2006 midterm elections have made an unlikely strong presence on a new platform - YouTube. The video sharing site now has what could lead to a vital role in the upcoming round of elections.