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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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Apple Tablet Delayed, But with OLED Screen and Condé Nast Mags
Whee, the Apple Tablet merry-go-round spins and spins: Today adds a clutch of rumors that, if you grapple them all together, are another quietly confident tick in the "it's definitely real" box. But one suggestion is that the beast is delayed, which is the kind of...
Conde Nast's Offering for Apple's Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine [MediaMemo]
Here's yet another content creator that's convinced that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Conde Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year, and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18...
Link Happy: Are News Sites Contributing To Information Overload?
By Mercedes Bunz: It was about a year ago, that the media expert Jeff Jarvis proclaimed: ““Links are the currency of the new media economy.”.”But as with every currency, there might be inflation. Nick Bilton illustrates in the upcoming Wired UK that news sites learned that lesson - but...
Small business needs 'free' thinking, Wired editor says
Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson has made waves with his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by suggesting that companies need to start thinking about how to attract customers by giving away some of their products and services for nothing. It's a message he delivered in a speech...
Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart's Hacker Attack [Voices]
Wal-Mart WMT was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain's point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned. Internal documents reveal for the...
Why We're Wired for Procrastination
Food for thought: Your procrastination habit isn't your fault. Your brain is to blame. That's right -- we're hard-wired for it. That because our brains trick us into procrastinating, saysTimothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. Pychyl notes that five innate quirks of the brain (as described by David Rock,...
Clearwire Hires Fresh Face to Sell Wireless to the Wired
Clearwire today said it's hired Teresa Elder to be the new president of strategic partnerships and wholesale, which will see her market the WiMAX company's services to its cable partners and consumer device makers, and that Chief Strategy Officer Scott Richardson will leave Clearwire, but remain available as a strategic...
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...
Hacker with Asperger's syndrome gets reduced sentence
Asperger's syndrome saved a Los Angeles hacker from a longer prison sentence, it was reported today, bringing scant hope to self-confessed British hacker Gary McKinnon pictured, who faces extradition to the US on hacking charges. Viachelav Berkovich, an illegal Russian immigrant and Asperger's sufferer, received a 55-month sentence for his part...
VMware Acquires SpringSource for $420 Million
Leading virtualization company VMware announced today that it's acquiring SpringSource for $326 million in cash, plus another $58 million worth of stock and options. SpringSource will retain its executives and become a division within VMware. SpringSource is used in many top companies to manage the full lifecycle for Java...
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