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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 [...]

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.

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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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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.?

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The Apple Tablet isn’t an Apple TV replacement

If, and I underline the word ‘if,’ there’s an Apple Tablet for us to buy this Christmas, it’s not going to be, as some would have it, a replacement for the Apple TV.

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