FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GOOGLE TO LAUNCH VIDEO MARKETPLACE LAS VEGAS, NV – Jan. 6, 2006 – Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the planned opening of the Google Video Store, the first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of video content from [...]

Source: Variety CES Update Written By: Ken Kerschbaumer While Apple’s iPod with video capability may have stolen mobile video headlines in 2005, the 2006 CES floor showed that competition is on the way.

Source: ComingSoon.net Submitted by: Kyle Nin With the 2006 International CES technology show getting underway in Las Vegas, studios have announced their first titles for the next-generation home video format, Blu-ray Disc (BD), which provides five times larger capacity than today's DVDs. Blu-ray Disc players will be fully backward compatible with current CD/DVD formats, delivering [...]

Source: CNN Money Written By: Peter H. Lewis (Fortune Senior Editor) The smart money will wait out the standards war before buying a high-definition DVD player NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - If you were lucky enough to get a fancy HDTV set, you're probably eager for a high-definition DVD player to go with it.

Source: CNN Money New service Vongo to offer viewers access to much wider range of films, cable network says NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cable network Starz Entertainment Group LLC said it plans to launch an Internet movie download service Tuesday, backed by partnerships with Microsoft and Sony, amid a race to offer more videos over [...]

Source: Coming Soon Submitted by: Kyle Nin Sony Completes First Full-Length Blue-ray Disc Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) president Benjamin S. Feingold today announced that authoring has been completed on the first Blu-ray Disc (BD) to contain a full-length, high-definition feature film. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle was compressed and authored in MPEG 2 full high-definition [...]

Technology group Forrester Research on Wednesday declared Blu-Ray, a new DVD format backed by electronics makers led by Sony Corp as the winner in a heated battle over next-generation DVD technology.

Source: News Day Guest Writer: Robert Tuttle Inspired by the communicators seen on 'Star Trek,' two companies seek to beam up big sales. Two tech companies have announced plans to boldly go where no wireless phone company has gone before, with the release next month of a mobile telephone that resembles the communicators featured on [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that software companies can be held liable for copyright infringement when individuals use their technology to download songs and movies illegally.

The unanimous decision handed the music and movie industries a crucial victory in their ongoing battle to curb Internet piracy -- a campaign centered on lobbying for new laws, filing thousands of lawsuits against Internet users, and winning a ruling from the nation's highest court.