Tuesday - January 6, 2009
The recession figures to tone down the flashiness of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, but the lineup of innovative products likely will measure up to past years. The CES product list still looks intriguing partly because startups haven't yet been hit as hard by this downturn as they were when the Internet boom collapsed in 2000 -- and bigger companies haven't yet had time to adjust to consumers' belt-tightening. Most of all, competition in consumer electronics is still fierce, and innovation counts.
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Monday - January 5, 2009
Netflix is coming to a high-definition LG Electronics television near you. The two companies on Monday announced an extension of an existing partnership whereby LG will sell Internet-ready TVs capable of streaming content from a catalog of 12,000 Netflix movies. The service is already available on one of LG's Blu-ray disc players.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
The Linux operating system owes most of its popularity to the fact that it is open source software and anyone can expand or edit it. But that is proving a double-edged sword for software companies who make a loss when customers switch from commercial operating systems to Linux. So these companies try and make many of their applications incompatible with Linux.
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Friday - November 28, 2008
Blockbuster on Tuesday threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of set-top boxes with the announcement of a deal with hardware maker 2Wire. Blockbuster's system will bring video directly to viewers' televisions on demand via a broadband Internet connection. The move follows similar offerings from competitors.
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Tuesday - November 25, 2008
Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.
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Monday - November 24, 2008
Sony Pictures Entertainment's online video network, Crackle.com, has announced its upcoming season of online programming, which will start airing next month. Unlike much of the pro content accessible on the Internet, Crackle's shows are primarily made for distribution exclusively over the Web, not regular TV.
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Thursday - November 20, 2008
It's time to fire the cable guy. And the satellite guy. If you have a high-speed Internet connection, you have so many new ways to watch shows and movies on TV that you don't need those guys any more. I can connect my laptop to my TV to watch YouTube videos and network shows -- NBC, CBS, ABC -- online.
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Tuesday - November 11, 2008
Netflix has released their Silverlight plug-in for beta testing that allows its customers with Intel-based Macs to instantly view a movie from an available library of 12,000 titles. Testing on a MacBook Pro revealed that the plug-in works well, and no problems were encountered. Testing was conducted on a unibody, 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro with 4 GB RAM and Mac OS X 10.5.5 during the week of Nov. 3 through 7.
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Monday - November 10, 2008
All those singing cats and clumsy kittens you currently see on YouTube will soon be getting some more feline company at the online video Web site: Leo, the roaring, toothy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. The movie studio announced Monday that it would allow a very limited selection of full-length movies and TV shows from its library, along with one- to two-minute clips from MGM films.
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Thursday - October 30, 2008
Netflix and TiVo announced Thursday the roll out of a streaming video service for subscribers. Set for availability in early December, the service appears to be the culmination of a deal the two companies originally announced in 2004. The TiVo-Netflix venture is the latest in a series of similar partnerships Netflix has announced this year.
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Wednesday - October 29, 2008
Netflix subscribers who also happen to own an Xbox 360 -- and have an Xbox Live membership -- learned last summer they'd be able to access streaming video via the gaming console, but what they didn't know until recently is that some of those titles will be available in high definition. Users of the Microsoft's gaming machine will see the feature when the console's "New Xbox Experience" launches Nov. 19.
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