Pandora has been lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill about changing the royalty rate structure for Internet radio, getting out ahead of its rate-setting negotiations with the music industry that are ...

With the rapid development of We Media, a variety of audio products are emerging. To better meet the needs of users, for example, they can adjust the mic gain and control the mute mode on the mic ...

Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

In recent years, due to factors such as the sharp increase in smartphone usage, the development of 5G technology, and the global pandemic since 2020, watching live-streaming on YouTube or Twitch, ...

Reader Hayden Alexander is interested in capturing audio from the Web. He writes: I would like to record some audio messages from the Internet. I usually play the message on Firefox 3.0.11 and would ...

Remember the good old days? When transporting audio was no more complicated than plugging in a T1 or dialling up on ISDN? Data (and clock) went in one end and generally came out the other end in an ...

The Internet music craze has created a bit of a dilemma for music lovers. Those streaming audio channels and gigabytes of MP3 files are trapped in the PC, not exactly the most convenient listening ...

Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. has invested $2 million in a startup who develops embedded systems. Digital 5 Inc. (D5) develops DSPs for Internet audio products based on flash, hard disk drive ...

AOL Time Warner Inc.'s America Online division and Microsoft Corp. are in discussions about the possibility of packaging the software giant's Internet audio and video technology with the AOL Internet ...

The next big format for music may be just plain bits. Many audiophiles who have amassed collections of vinyl records, cassette tapes and compact disks see digital as the ultimateformat-though it's not ...