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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember the good old days? When transporting audio was no more complicated than plugging in a T1 or dialling up on ISDN? Data (and clock) went in one end and generally came out the other end in an ...