Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Who owns streaming media? (29 Feb 2004) Ever hear of Acacia Research? Not many people have, but if you're in the business of streaming audio or video entertainment online, you'll probably be hearing from them. Located in Newport Beach, Calif., Acacia Research Corp. discovered gold in November 2001 when it completed its purchase of Greenwich Information Technologies, whose main asset turned out to be a group of patents on a method for streaming media. Article URL: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/mar04/0304webs.html Read 51 more articles from IEEE Spectrum sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders Part II This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy