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Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying Wi-Fi Direct products
- The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying Wi-Fi Direct devices, meaning you can expect the first approved products to arrive this holiday season. Wi-Fi Direct enables device-to-device connections using current Wi-Fi standards. While communicating between Wi-Fi devices isn't new (the Nintendo…
Napster co-founder: war on music piracy is a failure
- Napster co-founder Sean Parker recently gave his thoughts on the music industry and how he plans to solve its problems at the Daily Beast's Innovators Summit – Reboot America!. "The ultimate answer is you have to accept that the war…
TV networks block Google TV, talks with search giant ensue
- ABC, CBS, and NBC have all denied Google TV access to TV episodes on their own websites, according to The Wall Street Journal. Spokespeople for the three biggest US television networks confirmed that they are blocking the episodes on their…
AT&T: Windows Phone 7 users get free Zune Pass, U-verse
- AT&T has announced that it will give away a free entertainment pack to customers who purchase a Windows Phone 7 device. The package, estimated at a value of $30, is only good for 30 days, but it gives you a…
Boxee Box will finally ship on November 10
- As expected, D-Link's Boxee Box will start shipping on November 10 after a launch event in New York City to celebrate and demo the device and Boxee 1.0. This new version of the Boxee software will initially be available only…
Electronic theft surpasses physical theft for the first time
- For the first time ever, more companies are suffering from electronic theft than from physical theft, according to the "Annual Global Fraud Report" (PDF) by risk consultancy Kroll (via CNET). The theft of information or electronic assets was reported by…
Getting Hulu on Google TV requires changing just one setting
- Google TV devices won't work with Hulu out of the box because Google has set a browser ID that the service can easily block. Thankfully, Google TV allows you to customize the User Agent string, an identification method web browsers…
US and Canada have most expensive cell phone plans
- Citizens of the US and Canada tend to pay the most expensive bills for a complete cell phone package, according to a new report from the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI, via Ars Technica). Meanwhile, users in India…
Sony announces Google TV-enabled HDTVs, Blu-ray player
- We already had a pretty close idea about Sony’s planned lineup of Google TV products after last week’s leak, but today they’ve made it official with the launch of four HDTVs loaded with the web-enabled interface. The lineup will be…
AT&T brings U-verse TV to Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7
- AT&T has announced that you will be able to use your Xbox 360 as a U-verse receiver and that U-verse Mobile will be heading to Windows Phone 7 this fall. For the former, you'll have to be a U-verse customer…
Sony's Google TV pricing leaks: models from $1300 to $1900
- One more Sony detail has leaked out: pricing. There will be four models initially available, as already rumored: 24-inch, 32-inch, 40-inch, and 46-inch (measured diagonally). These Internet TVs will have the following model names and pricing, according to Sony Insider:…
Logitech opens preorders for Revue Google TV set-top box
- Logitech has started taking preorders for its "Revue" Google TV set-top device today, with initial pricing set at $300. That fee gets you an Android-based media box with applications for popular social and entertainment services including Netflix, Hulu, Napster, Pandora,…
Sony's Google TV controller shown off on ABC's Nightline
- ABC Nightline recently aired a Google TV special that gives us a first glimpse of Sony's Google TV controller and a sneak preview of Sony's Google TV advertising campaign, as spotted by Engadget. The remote has two circular directional pads,…
Best Buy charging $30 for free PS3 firmware update
- Best Buy's Geek Squad is generally known as a group that grossly overcharges for services that cost very little to perform, but this one takes the cake. The Staten Island, New York store is offering 120GB PS3 Slims for $329.98,…
Qualcomm cancels consumer-direct FLO TV
- Qualcomm's streaming TV service, FLO TV, is getting the axe by the end of the year, according to PaidContent. The staff was informed late last week by Bill Stone, president of MediaFlo and FLO TV. The FLO TV store is…
Toshiba to launch glasses-free 3DTVs in December
- Toshiba says it has cleared one of the biggest obstacles for 3DTV adoption by developing the world’s first television set that won’t require users to wear special glasses to view stereoscopic images. The new Regza line of glasses-free 3DTVs will…
Toshiba reportedly freezes OLED production plans
- Citing an increasing demand for LCDs alongside the impact of the recent economic recession, Toshiba says its OLED mass production plans are no more. "The plan (for mass-production) is currently frozen," Toshiba Mobile Display spokesman Masahiro Kume told Reuters. "We'll…
Nielsen: US digital music sales flattening out
- In the course of the past year, online music sales have started to flatten out, according to Nielsen (via Reuters). Sales and subscriptions at iTunes, Amazon MP3, and other American online stores in the first half of 2010 were roughly…
Microsoft: Blu-ray is going to be passed by as a format
- Microsoft is reinforcing its stance regarding Blu-ray: even though HD DVD lost the war, the software giant is not switching to Sony's offering. Despite constant rumors about the Xbox 360 supporting the format, Microsoft continues to deny that Blu-ray is…
Roku relaunches HD streaming video player line
- Roku has introduced three new models of its set-top streaming video player, designed to provide on-demand content with minimal setup. The first model, an update of their original video player line, is the $59 Roku HD. Streaming video at up…
Netflix comes to Canada for $7.99 per month, no mail service
- Netflix has announced its expansion into Canada (English only for now, French is on its way), the first country to get the service outside of the United States. Netflix.ca is now live, offering unlimited streaming for $7.99 CAD per month.…
Intel: leaked HDCP master key is real, but it's no big deal
- Intel has confirmed that the recently leaked High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) master key, which permanently unlocks the DRM protocol on Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and displays with HDMI inputs, is indeed legitimate. "We can use it to generate valid…
Amazon destroys Apple's iPad in new Kindle ad
- Amazon is not going to let Apple's iPad steal all the thunder away from its Kindle. The online retail has decided to demonstrate how its electronic reader is better than the competition simply by pointing out the differences in screen…
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