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September 28, 2006 British broadcaster wants to work with Microsoft on the delivery of digital content. Deals with Real and IBM could follow. TAGS: broadcaster, digital content, broadcasting, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

April 16, 2007 Looking to dethrone Adobe's Web video tool, Redmond to unveil a browser plug-in called Silverlight.Image: Microsoft's 'Silverlight' browser plug-in TAGS: Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Systems Inc., digital content, broadcaster, Web application, designer, Las Vegas, WMV, development tool, RSS, media, Microsoft Corp., media player, video, Web browser, entertainment

October 2, 2003 Frustrated by the lack of a copy protection standard that might help the digital content business reach the mainstream, MPEG LA is taking matters into its own hands. TAGS: copy protection, digital-rights management, digital content, MPEG, antipiracy, description, patent, standard, Microsoft Corp., video

November 6, 2003 Rights-management schemes are threatening to put customers under proprietary lock and key. And critics warn that Microsoft is gaining too much power, from multimedia to corporate memos. TAGS: Leonardo Chiariglione, digital-rights management, portable music player, digital content, critic, copy protection, Napster Inc., rule, standards, Microsoft Office, music player, Microsoft Word, multimedia, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod, Apple Computer

June 22, 2004 A group of ISPs releases recommendations for stopping junk e-mail. Among their advice: Kill the "zombies." TAGS: Internet Service Provider, coalition, anti-spam, digital content, DNS, EarthLink Inc., proposal, caller ID, spam, America Online Inc., alliance, e-mail, Time Warner Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC

January 8, 2004 Microsoft's chairman demonstrates new technology for connecting digital content on Windows PCs to home entertainment centers, TVs and portable devices during his CES keynote address. TAGS: Bill Gates, home entertainment, Consumer Electronics Show, PC-TV, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Media Center, digital content, Windows PC, set-top box, portable device, digital media, MSN, Windows Media, TV, vision, PC company

October 4, 2004 Group hopes to end the morass of copy-protection technologies that has rendered much digital content and hardware incompatible. TAGS: antipiracy, InterTrust Technologies, digital-rights management, rights-management, copy protection, consortium, interoperability, digital content, Apple Computer, Philips Electronics N.V., Apple iPod, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp.

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