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Hacking the Google TV Box Without Rooting It, Part 3

By Patrick Nelson
Dec 16, 2011
LinuxInsider
909 Words

Last month, I succumbed to a peculiar urge to go out to my local, friendly big-box consumer electronics retailer and drop almost a hundred dollars on a product that had been panned by the critics on launch, had a dubious life expectancy because of that, and had been almost universally rejected by th...

Hacking the Google TV Box Without Rooting It, Part 1

By Patrick Nelson
Oct 28, 2011
LinuxInsider
814 Words

I've long held the opinion that the most effective way to get Internet-based content onto a TV is to simply hook a laptop up to the flat screen with an HDMI cable. The laptop acts as an oversized remote control. You get a full Flash-based Web browser, hard drive and keyboard on your TV. It's not the...

Boxee Swings for Spot in Set-Top Box Ring

By Jack M. Germain
Dec 9, 2009
LinuxInsider
725 Words

The Boxee video-on-demand software maker aims to change the way consumers get free movie and TV entertainment from the Internet with its first hardware venture, called "Boxee Box." The open source software company debuted its new hardware device at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y., o...