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Google and Linux are coming to your TV

In what may have been Google’s worst kept secret in years, the word is out. Google, along with its partners, Intel, Logitech, and Sony is on its way to delivering the Web to your television . And, what will they be using to do this? Why, they’ll be using Google’s Android Linux of course.

Android is [...]

March 18th, 2010 | Category: Entertainment, Google, Internet, Linux, Media Extender, Network, Operating System | One comment

Much ado about nothing or Apple TV

Yesterday’s Apple announcements had analysts and fans alike drooling at the possibilities of a tablet-sized Apple iPod Touch, others saw a Web browser and iPhone/iPod applets for the Apple TV, and there was the eternal rumor of a Blu-Ray DVD being added to the Apple TV. In the event, there was, drum roll please, no [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Category: Apple, Business, Entertainment, Media Extender | Comments are closed

The affordable Mac

The conventional wisdom is that Macs are expensive. Microsoft ads make a big deal about how much more computer you can get for the money. Nonsense. Actually, you can get a perfectly good Mac for cheap: the Mac mini, which can do everything its bigger, more expensive, brothers do for a lot less.

The bottom of [...]

August 25th, 2009 | Category: Apple, Desktop, Infrastructure, Mac OS X, Media Extender, Operating System | One comment

TiVo and VoD grow closer

TiVo, easily my favorite DVR brand and Internet-based VoD (Video on Demand) are growing closer. In 2010, RCN Corp., a telecom and datacom provider in the Midwest and Northeast US will be offering co-branded, HD TiVo DVRs that will integrate RCN’s programming and Video on Demand (VoD) library with Internet delivered VoD and video programming.

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August 4th, 2009 | Category: Entertainment, Media Extender, Video | Comments are closed

What the LG/Vudu deal means for Internet TV

Vudu, like Apple before it with the Apple TV, brought Internet TV and movies to TV watchers with a set-top box. Now, LG Electronics will be baking Vudu Internet TV capabilities into at least two of its 1080p HDTV lines. Is this the beginning of the end for the Internet TV set-top box.?

Eh…. I can’t [...]

July 29th, 2009 | Category: Entertainment, HDTV, Media Extender | Comments are closed
 
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