Creative Sues Apple For iPod Patent Infringement

Creative Technology filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer for patent infringement in federal court and with a U.S. trade agency. Creative claims that Apple’s iPod violates the company’s Zen patent that covers the software menus users navigate to find and play back music on most portable digital media players. The U.S. Patent Office issued the Zen patent to Creative on August 9, 2005 but engineers working in California...

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Acon Digital Media Announces Studio Clean with VST Support

Acon Digital Media has released Studio Clean 1.5, a collection of plug-ins for noise reduction and quality enhancements that easily integrates with software supporting DirectX or VST plug-ins. It consists of the following plug-ins: • StudioDenoiser is a plug-in for broadband noise reduction. Because the algorithm takes the perceptual properties of the human hearing into account it achieves a high level of noise reduction with a...

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