Ogg's time has come -- again. In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's ...

Update: John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation responds in the Talkback section. In addition, the FSF has revised its FAQ page. See the update at the end of this post for details. In the great ...

Audio has become one of the killer apps of the network. With the distribution power that the global network offers, the music industry is being reshaped forever. The boom of audio applications and ...

Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has ...

If you’ve spent every spare musical minute within the confines of the iTunes window you might believe there are only five audio formats—MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless. It turns out, however, ...

This was an exciting week for the KDE project, which officially launched its 4.2 release. We also got our first glimpse of Moblin 2, and Mozilla launched a new campaign in collaboration with the ...

The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 standard. Nokia, ...