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Wired was founded in January 1990 by two engineers who just wanted to make great MPEG products. In the early days, Wired's business model was that of a contract engineering company, retained by big companies (like IBM, Sony, AT&T, Lockheed Martin) to develop technologies & reference designs. As you might imagine, developing for these heavyweights allowed Wired to amass a considerable war chest of MPEG-related intellectual property. Wired's founders were disappointed that this great technology was moving from the laboratories to the consumers' studios so slowly, so they decided to launch the company's own line of products. In 1993, Wired introduced Mason - the first MPEG decoder available for the Macintosh platform. This led to a string of firsts, including the first Macintosh MPEG-2 decoder, the first Macintosh MPEG-2 encoder, and the first PowerBook DVD playback card. Today the Wired MediaPress is the world's best selling professional realtime MPEG encoder. Our latest product, the MasonIP is getting rave reviews from customers. As always, we continue to offer engineering services to companies looking to integrate world-class MPEG solutions in their products.
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Conde Nast Digital Starts Feeding Video Content To Boxee
Boxee users will now be able to watch video clips from Wired.com like this one on how to set up a chemistry lab in your house and Style.com, as well as Style.com’s photo slideshows. Conde Nast Digital has become the latest media provider to do a content distribution deal...
Wiredlings Fiercely Debate Whether Their Bible Will Die
At the center of a parallel, palpable universe that emerged in the mid-1990s, sits Wired Magazine, as well as its blood child Wired News, though the latter no longer loads in your browser as it was meant to load. (Before I continue, I should issue all sorts...
Media Roundup: Wired Editor's New Gig, Judith Miller as Media Pundit, and More
Open-source investigations: the new new journalism -- Journalist David Cohn has launched a non-profit project that raises funds from different donors to complete investigative reports on big topics. Journalists can pitch story ideas, as can the general public. Funds are raised on the project's website, Spot.us, and the finished article...
What Do Wired, Obama, N.Y. Times, YouTube, and Sam Zell Have in Common?
Many media executives, struggling to adapt, continue to focus too much on the tools of new media as opposed to opportunities those tools create.  I'm continuously hearing about how this company or that is going to go "multimedia." Too often, what this means to the exec in question is telling...
The Publisher and his Chocolate Factory
So what, you may ask, did your faithful BNET media blogger do today? He toured a chocolate factory; indeed, the only chocolate factory in San Francisco. Now, even though we cover a fairly wide range of companies in this space, I bet you couldn't have seen this one coming. ...
Add Highlighter Notes to Web Pages with Wired Marker (Firefox)
Wired Marker is a Firefox extension that lets you highlight sections of Web pages for future reference. Indeed, it's akin to running a highlighter over passages in a book, but with a lot more power. The extension adds a Wired Marker sidebar folder to Firefox. After "highlighting"...
Will Wired Magazine Snag Luxury Brands?
A story in Ad Age today asks whether Conde Nast-owned magazine Wired can land luxury brands in its ad pages. From the Ad Age piece: [A] few months ago Condé Nast replaced a departing Wired publisher with Chris Mitchell, a former Wired sales guy who had been publisher of...
The Wired Media Empire Rises Again
The Web isn't old enough for nostalgia yet, you may say, but if there were to be an occasion for such feelings, yesterday might have been the day. Why? The announcement that Conde Nast has at long last reunited the lost siblings of what was once the...
Zuckerberg Interview Shows It's a Wild, Wired World
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on stage at the SXSWi conference by former BusinessWeek journalist and author Sarah Lacy. It didn't go well -- Lacy, who can be a bit of a smarty pants, was channeling her inner David Letterman, asking off-the-wall questions, interrupting Zuckerberg...
Don't Be Shy About Doing Research on Journalists
If you were going in to a major sales meeting, you'd want to know everything possible about the potential customer: their likes and dislikes, their career history, their interests, and so on. It would be no-brainer. And the same is true for most other business meetings with important people...
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