Long before the vwip! of iMessage and the funky beats of the Skype startup song, digital communication had a strange soundtrack. Dial-up modems, which connected to servers and other computers via ...

SAN FRANCISCO ? The runaway popularity of blogging, which has turned everyday people into online news outlets, caught the media establishment off guard. The industry is trying not to make the same ...

Reader Hayden Alexander is interested in capturing audio from the Web. He writes: I would like to record some audio messages from the Internet. I usually play the message on Firefox 3.0.11 and would ...

Pat Higbie, CEO of XAPPmedia, developed a passion for computers while studying civil engineering. He says, “I always enjoyed the problem-solving aspects of engineering, but I became enamored with the ...

Randy Cole, Chief Technology OfficerInternet Audio, Jason Kridner, Senior Software ArchitectDigital Audio, Texas Instruments,Dallas, Jason Lin, MTS, Digital Audio, Texas Instruments Selecting ...

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

Competition among audio-chip suppliers is heating up as makers of Internet-enabled portable audio players search for the right file-storage format to win over consumers. Despite an adoption rate that ...