CNN Money
Speaking at a news briefing at Apple headquarters in California, Jobs said Apple’s new minis will contain Intel’s (Research) Core processor, a remote control, as well as high-end digital video and audio outputs that allow the machines to connect to digital TVs.
“Today’s news was basically an expansion of Apple’s digital home strategy,” said Sam [...]

Opera Software
Opera Software ASA today announced their voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for home media, introducing home entertainment users across the globe to the future of human-computer interaction.
The voice-enabled EPG is a significant breakthrough in the effort to enhance the customer experience. Finally, there is an easier way for people to interact with their DVD [...]

SFGate
A few years ago, a team of Microsoft engineers invited some SBC executives to a small Mountain View apartment. The engineers had jury-rigged an Xbox gaming console into a set-top box to control the television set.
The SBC executives were getting their first glimpse of IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, which uses your phone line to [...]

CNET News.com
No one to talk to when you get home from work? One Voice Technologies has a technological solution.
Its One Voice software add-on for Windows XP Media Center is designed to allow users to control their TV, stereo and computer via verbal commands. The One Voice slogan is “Just say it to play it,” the [...]

Web Wire
Vizrt Ltd. announced today that two broadcasters belonging to the CME group (Central European Media Enterprises) each bought 3-camera virtual set systems totalling over USD 700,000 of Q1 revenues, thereby significantly increasing their Vizrt graphics installations.
Vizrt is the world’s leading provider of HD/SD real-time 2D and true 3D broadcast graphics. The company’s software suite [...]

Government Computer News
Many think the Internet is mainstream now, but that’s only true for nonpaying use, such as surfing for free information. As of 2003, commercial operations involving monetary exchange were limited to about 23% for broadband, 10% for e-tailing, 12% for B2B, 10% for distance learning, and 5% for music. And these are the [...]

Om Malik’s Blog
At first blush there are remarkable similarities in what ace coder Jeremy Allaire’s new start-up, Bright Cove is trying to do and what others such as TiVo and Akimbo plan to achieve. They are all trying to become the platform to publish video content over the Internet, which can, and will be displayed [...]

Seattle Post Intelligencer
A company that makes video display products for military and industrial uses is setting its sights on a new market — the iPod.
Bellevue-based eMagin Corp. has developed a wearable headset system that plugs into Apple Computer’s portable media device and displays video from it in front of one eye, using optical technology designed [...]