DivX Inc, the company that owns the codec which made your early 2000s movie downloads look actually not too bad, is being acquired by Sonic Solutions, a content delivery company, for a reported $US300 million. Sonic’s been working in circular media like CDs and DVDs for years – they own the popular Roxio brand – but is now looking to the internet as the content delivery platform of the future. DivX, a current competitor of Sonic’s, has been helping deliver video content to internet users, legally and otherwise, for years. More »
This concept keyboard plays on our love of, or at least interest in, marketing by replacing all the letters with logos of corporations whose name begins with said letter. I seriously just spent five minutes picking them all out. More »
A recent voluntary survey of 28 US companies found a single lost laptop to cost an average of $US49,246. (And no, these laptops did not cost $US50k in hardware alone.)