The drive will include packet writing software for CD-RW and Cequadrat JustBurn for creating data and audio CDs.
We then install each drive, noting any difficulties, and load the bundled software for CD-R and CD-RW writing.
In its definition of illegal, SIIA officials counted backup copies of software, as well as CD-RW software, regardless of whether the owner had a license or not.
Toshiba says the DVD device for computers it will manufacture will have backward compatibility - it will be able to read CD software.
It's a snap to install and use, is the speediest CD-RW drive we tested, and comes with a raft of software besides the usual CD creation utilities.
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We test CD-ROM read performance with Testa Labs' CD-Tach 98 2.0 software, and we gauge CD-R performance by writing 430MB of data to CD-R twice: once from an image file and once on the fly.
He has been shy about specifics but shedding underperformers like the electronics testing and chemical analysis businesses would free up management to concentrate on high-growth, high-profit areas like printers, software and its recordable CD-ROM product.
The mid-1990s creative boom in CD-based multimedia software has come and gone.
Concealed in a plastic security carton on a poorly lit section of shelving, somewhere between Random Accountancy Software and Pass Your Driving Test on CD-ROM.
The government said it is simply providing the software free of charge, as a pre-installed file on computer hard drives or as a CD, to give users to choice to install the software.
One thing that separates the MyDitto from the competition, though, is what it doesn't come with, namely, a CD-ROM for loading any software.
Sony ( SNE - news - people ) in 2005 for secretly downloading copyright protection software onto people's computers to prevent CD copying.
Corel Linux is also pretty thin on software (at least with respect to the CD-ROM image you can download, which is all I've been able to test so far).
So, if this isn't a CD turntable, is it just another software controller?
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EBay has tried to counter this by making it impossible to search for certain words, such as "backup" and "CD-RW, " in the software category.
External time-code control via turntables and CD decks will be enabled through a future software upgrade.
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And both ship with software geared to managing a collection of songs taken from your personal CD collection.
The base unit includes a CD player and 40GB hard drive, along with embedded Gracenote software, so that CDs can be ripped PC-free with song data included.
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