Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk wrote an article today for Wired News about the recent patent lawsuit between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent. A federal jury ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1 ...

Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players. The format reached a milestone 1.0 release ...

Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players. The format reached a milestone 1.0 release ...

A Danish consumer electronics maker has unveiled the first DVD player to support the Ogg Vorbis music format, a favourite among technology enthusiasts. Kiss Technology, based in Denmark, will add ...

RealNetworks today announced a collaboration with the Xiph.Org Foundation to integrate the Ogg Vorbis format and audio codec with the Helix DNA Client. The Helix DNA Client is source code from ...

Ogg's time has come -- again. In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's ...

Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has ...

So a few days back audio engineer Hugh Fiennese postulated that the iPod may not have the computational horsepower to play OGG Vorbis files in the first place. Turns out that might not be the case, as ...

Just when you thought the PMP market was crowded enough, here comes the TwinMos PMP525. It’s got a 2.5-inch screen with support of up to 4GB of compact flash—not bad. For audio formats, it plays ...

Wired News reports on how to incorporate the Ogg Vorbis file format into your music library. Why Ogg Vorbis? The Free Software Foundation explains: The use of MP3 is restricted by patents, while Ogg ...

The MP3 format, without a doubt, has revolutionized the way we all listen to music. Not only does it allow us to store our music in a compact format, but we are able to effortlessly transfer our files ...