CD-ROM
Data Storage Medium
Disney/Pixar's Cars tell you that you have mail...Yahoo, Outlook Express, and POP3, and no batteries are required. All the user has to do is plug it into a spare USB port, and it needs no CD Rom. In addition to the email notifications, the device also has another feature. The car will... In this article: Cars, Disney, Lightning McQueen, CD Rom, Gmail, Yahoo, Pixar, and The King |
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Centre Daily Times | November 03, 2009
Renesas Technology to Release SH7266 and SH7267 32-bit MCUs with Large-Capacity (1.5 MB) On-Chip SRAM
...by register settings. The USB has a built-in USB transceiver that supports all data transfer types defined in the USB standard. A CD-ROM decoder and a sampling rate converter for converting the sampling frequency for audio data are...
In this article: Renesas Technology, South Dakota, Trademark, Microsoft Corporation, Customers, and CMT
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ChicagoNow | October 29, 2009
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
...Ballet Jorgen and several independent dance artists. As a member of Ballett Frankfurt, she was involved in the creation of William Forsythe's CD-ROM "Improvisation Technologies" and participated in Forsythe's works both as a performer and...
In this article: Cedar Lake, Auditorium Theatre, Roosevelt University, and Chicago
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Independent.co.uk - Business | October 28, 2009
Simon Calver: The next big thing in movies
...becoming UK vice-president at the age of 29, and masterminding the launch of Pepsi Max. After a stint at Dell, he moved to the educational CD-ROM business Riverdeep. The commute between Dublin and San Francisco took its toll, and he...
In this article: LoveFilm, DVD, Customer, UK, Customer base, Revenue, and Sky Media
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VentureBeat | October 28, 2009
Intel and Numonyx report a breakthrough in new kind of memory chip
...yet accessed easily. The prototype uses a material which is an electrically-charged form of glass. This same kind of material is used in CD-ROM drives and non-volatile memory today. Intel is doing the research to advance personal...
In this article: Numonyx, Intel, Twitter, San Jose Mercury News, Dallas Times Herald, Cd-rom Drives, Los Angeles Times, and Xbox 360
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The Bergen Record | October 25, 2009
Game music goes symphonic
...undertaking. "The evolution of game music in the industry really took a big turn in the mid-'90s, when they moved from cartridges to CD-ROMs." And for the past few years, Tallarico has been taking video games to the stage. His traveling...
In this article: Tommy Tallarico, Prince of Persia, Cd-roms, California, and Manhattan
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Sunday Mirror | October 23, 2009
WIN 10 NINTENDO WII CONSOLES PLUS HORRID HENRY GAMES
Each lucky winner will get a Wii" console plus a Horrid Henry goody bag containing the video game on Nintendo DS", Wii" and PC CD-ROM and loads more fab Horrid Henry prizes. Horrid Henry: Missions Of Mischief will transport you into...
In this article: Wii, Mission, Nintendo, Daily Mirror, PC Cd-rom, and Nintendo DS
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PR Newswire | October 21, 2009
Strata Celebrates 20 Years of Pioneering 3D with 20/20 Program
...take a picture of the screen with a 35mm camera for output. Since then we've seen desktop printing go color, desktop video come about, CD ROM become a popular format with games like MYST, and then the revolution of the internet with its ever...
In this article: Adobe, Trademark, Utah, Photoshop, and Myst
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Deseret News | October 19, 2009
Microsoft Windows 7 is set to launch
...run the Upgrade Advisor first. Also keep in mind that you will need a DVD drive for the software to install. Some computers only have CD-ROM drives. Before you get started, back up your entire PC so you can get back where you started if...
In this article: Windows 7, Microsoft, E-mail, Windows XP, DVD Drive, Cd-rom Drives, Acronis True Image, Symantec Ghost, and Windows Vista
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The Register | October 15, 2009
PLDS iHES208 internal Blu-ray combo drive
...as well as optical media As a Sata drive, the iHES208 is relatively simple to instal, especially if you are replacing an existing CD drive. If you want to instal it as a second drive, you will need a spare CD drive bay, a spare power...
In this article: Blu-ray, DVD, CyberLink, Joint venture, Dvd+r, Dvd-r, Cd-rw, 48x Cd-rom, CD-R, and Lite-On
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | October 13, 2009
Super Rare Sony SNES CD-ROM Controller on eBay Again, Still Looks Uncomfortable [Gaming]
...about this upside-down-looking controller that never got released. Before the PlayStation, Sony and Nintendo teamed up to create a CD-ROM add-on to compete with Sega, who was experimenting with their own (destined for failure) add-on. This...
In this article: EBay, Sony, Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation, and Sega CD
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CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory") is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer. While the Compact Disc format was originally designed for music storage and playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data.
CD-ROMs are popularly used to distribute computer software, including games and multimedia applications, though any data can be stored (up to the capacity limit of a disc). Some CDs hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, whilst data (such as software or digital video) is only usable on a computer (such as PC CD-ROMs). These are called Enhanced CDs.
Although many people use lowercase letters in this acronym, proper presentation is in all capital letters with a hyphen between CD and ROM. It was also suggested by some, especially soon after the technology was first released, that CD-ROM was an acronym for "Compact Disc read-only-media", or that it was a more "correct" definition. This was not the intention of the original team who developed the CD-ROM, and common acceptance of the "memory" definition is now almost universal. This is probably in no small part due to the widespread use of other "ROM" acronyms such as Flash-ROMs and EEPROMs where "memory" is usually the correct term.
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