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• UPDATE: Asus goes HDMI crazy with new sound cards
  Friday 29 February 2008 – 09:30 in Hardware
  The sound card market is going to get much more interesting: After years of Creative's dominance, Asus decided to step up to the sound card table and is gearing up to launch HTPC and high-performance products.
• Pioneer introduces 5.1 surround sound system for Xbox 360
  Wednesday 10 May 2006 – 10:42
  Pioneer Electronics has unveiled a 5.1 surround sound system with all the trimmings, officially licensed for the Xbox 360.
• Asus and Creative going to war over sound
  Friday 28 March 2008 – 05:30 in Hardware
  CPU wars, graphics wars and now we also have sound wars.
• Panasonic expected to announce Bluetooth home sound system
  Thursday 18 January 2007 – 08:50
  A new product from Panasonic has shown up on the FCC website, describing a home audio system that links up wirelessly through a Bluetooth connection. And yes, it does have the option connect directly to your iPod.
• Fraunhofer Institute announces MP3 Surround Sound
  Friday 19 January 2007 – 01:58
  Streaming surround sound could be just around the corner as the Fraunhofer Institute, known for their MP3 patent, has introduced a surround sound mp3 module. The module compresses music and gives 5.1 channel sound at Internet-friendly bitrates.
• Dolby is sound on MPEG 4, gets thumbs up
  Wednesday 27 March 2002 – 05:47
  Dolby has updated its audio streaming standard, MPEG AAC, with the release of Version 4.
• Creative's External Sound Blaster Extigy
  Wednesday 9 January 2002 – 07:19
  Taking audio functionality outside the box could be a benefit to those who don't want to use up a PCI slot as well as audio-hindered notebook PC users who suffer from the limited sound capabilities built in by OEMs.
• Cirrus delivers PCI surround sound, gaming audio
  Tuesday 13 April 1999 – 08:44
  Cirrus Logic Inc.
• Asus Xonar STX: Audiophile Sound
  Thursday 13 November 2008 – 07:50
  Asus this week unveiled its Xonar Essence STX, which is a sound card the company claims is squarely for high-end audiophiles. The new card will be available on store shelves roughly a month from today and come in the form of a PCI-express 1X slot. Some o
• Sound blaster cleans contaminated soil
  Thursday 7 September 2006 – 09:45
  Soil polluted by organic toxins can be blasted clean with ultrasound, say researchers in Australia. The method may prove to be more effective at cleaning up contamination from oil refineries, power stations and aluminium factories than existing methods.
• Virus watchers sound alarm over Wscript.Kak
  Sunday 2 January 2000 – 11:02
  A computer security firm has issued an alert for a new script virus that spreads via Microsoft Windows 98 and Outlook Express 5.0 e-mail.Computer Associates International says the risk of the Wscript.Kak worm is fairly low, since it is not self-propagating and does not appear to do any damage to systems.The virus, which spreads itself by attaching a copy of the virus onto every e-mail that a users sends, will apparently infect any system with Internet Explorer security settings set at low or medium.
• Making Games Sound Better
  Wednesday 16 May 2001 – 10:50
  Gone are days when the only noises our computers made were beeps and whirs.
• MP3 pioneer debuts spatial sound
  Tuesday 27 July 2004 – 01:57
  On a darkened sound stage, executives from Disney, Microsoft, Paramount and an array of Hollywood entertainment companies listen to the whispering voices of ghosts.
• MP3 surround sound system debuts
  Monday 22 March 2004 – 04:45
  The Fraunhofer Institute has found a way to reproduce surround sound in a way that works with small MP3 files.
• WebLink Turns Text Into Sound
  Wednesday 26 September 2001 – 06:33
  Not so long ago, we heard about an application that turned voice messages into text, and at the time, the idea that it could be used to send messages to the deaf didn't even occur to me.