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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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Link Happy: Are News Sites Contributing To Information Overload?
PaidContent
- 2009-11-02
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
BNET
- 2009-10-26
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]
BNET
- 2009-10-14
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
BNET
- 2009-10-06
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
BNET
- 2009-08-31
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
PaidContent
- 2009-08-25
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
BNET
- 2009-08-11
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
BNET
- 2009-08-10
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...
Wiredlings Fiercely Debate Whether Their Bible Will Die
BNET
- 2009-05-20
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...
Those Wired Digital Layoffs: The Facts
BNET
- 2009-04-05
One of the nice things about being a gossip columnist, as opposed to a journalist, is that you can trade in rumors while they are hot. Starting mid-week, I followed closely headlines like Wired.com 'Gutted' in Conde Layoffs. Bad news travels fast, especially online, and even faster...
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