Tag archive: industry heavyweights

Technology heavyweights Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo have signed on with the Internet Archive to form the Open Book Alliance, a coalition that's seeking to crystalize opposition to a legal settlement that could give Google digital rights to millions of copyrighted books. The group, which will also include a number of non-profit organizations, seeks to defeat a 2008 settlement agreement to two lawsuits that would effectively make… Read More

Video rental chain Movie Gallery, which is, under the Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery brands is the number-two video rental company in the United States after you-know-who, has announced that it has acquired MovieBeam, a company which offered set-top boxes which downloads video-on-demand titles over the air using public airwaves. MovieBeam certainly has a strong pedigree: the company was spawned by Disney and had the backing of Intel,… Read More

A removable hard disk drive system first unveiled more than two years ago will soon launch commercially: IO Data Device of Tokyo is readying a drive and disk based on the Information Versatile Disk for Removable specification. The IVDR standard was developed by a consortium of 38 companies, led by electronics industry heavyweights Fujitsu, Hitachi, Pioneer, Sanyo, Sharp, and Victor (JVC). Their goal was to develop a system that… Read More