The time is right for Amazon to ‘do a Kindle’ on the TV industry with its own set-top box

Source: The Next Web

Amazon has big ambitions in the TV content business. At the MIPTV conference in Cannes, France recently, I sat through what was basically a half-hour sales pitch to the TV industry from Amazon VP Anthony Bay, extoll ...
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Home Screen: Will Apple's 'iTV' Make Our Living Rooms More Social Again?

Source: Forbes

Rumors have swirled for years about Apple launching a branded TV. Those fires got fresh fuel last week when J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler let slip at Fast Company‘s recent Innovation Uncensored conference, that ”Apple has ...
Full article at: Forbes  More like this  10 hours ago, 10:32am CDT

Free TV! Boxee Box With Live TV Tuner Delivers HD Shows For $0 Per Month

Source: The Huffington Post

Over the past several weeks, my television has been receiving high-definition feeds of ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS, even though I haven't paid Comcast or Time Warner Cable a single penny for service. I feel as though I'm committ ...
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Can Apple pull a Dyson with televisions?

Source: Canadian Business Online

Ever since the publication of Steve Jobs’ biography last fall, the rumour mill over whether Apple is going to launch its own flat-panel television has been in high gear. At this point, with Jobs claiming he had finally “cracked” ...
Full article at: Canadian Business Online  More like this  1 day ago, 8:31am CDT

Replacing my HTPC with a mini ITX System

Source: AnandTech

I've needed to rebuild the HTPC in there for a while. Truth be told, my most reliable HTPC was an old AMD 780G platform (Gigabyte's GA-78GM-S2H) but it lacked the HD audio bitstreaming capabilities that I was looking for. Sinc ...
Full article at: AnandTech  More like this  2 days ago, 1:26pm CDT

featured: What Are The Five Big Ideas For 2012? [Video]

Source: PSFK

In this video from PSFK CONFERENCE NYC 2012, PSFK’s Director of Consulting, Scott Lachut, leads a trends panel to discuss the wider implications of Five Big Ideas PSFK identified at the start of 2012. Joining him on stage were a diverse ...
Full article at: PSFK  More like this  2 days ago, 6:43am CDT

Hardware vendors line up behind Spotify in Australia

Source: iTWire

The Spotify music service was launched in Australia this week, and support soon arrived from various non-traditional devices. Several vendors were quick to inform their Australian customers that they can use their devices to ...
Full article at: iTWire  More like this  3 days ago, 5:43pm CDT

Quiz App, the Next Big Thing, Brainchild of US Olim Startup

Source: The Jewish Press

These days, the dream of Aliya often goes hand-in-hand with the dream of making it big in hi-tech. An increasing number of immigrants are entrepreneurs. It is no secret that all the hi-tech giants are big i ...
Full article at: The Jewish Press  More like this  3 days ago, 4:13pm CDT

Apple’s Jonathan Ive: We’re very genuinely designing the best products

Source: Value Walk

Check out our Premium section. 14 day trial is only $1! With all the Apple rumors circulating on the internet in the past month or so, it’s refreshing to actually hear a stir from Apple’s camp. In a recent interview with The Telegraph (which was publ ...
Full article at: Value Walk  More like this  3 days ago, 11:03am CDT