Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, today announced that Netflix is now using the xHE-AAC audio codec. Netflix has licensed Fraunhofer’s ...

It’s hard to believe that the first Internet radio broadcast took place just 20 years ago. Today, tens of millions of people stream Internet radio to their smartphones, tablets and other connected ...

Via Licensing Alliance continues its China push as another smartphone manufacturer joins patent pool as licensee ...

It looks to me that apple audio products like AirPods handle audio transmission better than the standard Bluetooth audio. It will send the actual aac file to the audio device to be decoded on the ...

WorldDMB, which promotes Eureka-147 DAB services in global markets, has announced details of plans to create a choice of audio coding for Digital Audio Broadcasting. They say they’ve been in ...

As long promised, a performance and artifact analysis of Fraunhofer's (http://www.fraunhofer.de) Version 3.0 AAC codec is now available. AAC has substantially fewer ...

Nero Digital is the next generation in MPEG-4 compatible compression technology - with premium quality video coding algorithms and full High Efficiency AAC audio. Realize audio and video in DVD ...

Windows is arguably the most-used operating system in the world and yet there are things where it's still playing catch up with others, especially mobile platforms like Android and iOS. One area it ...

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, an institute of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany, has announced a new web-based test service that developers and manufacturers can use to validate ...

Bluetooth is working on wireless audio tech I once thought was impossible - what to know ...