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  • Google’s simple device will shake up television

    07/31/2013 12:17:59 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 68 replies
    Marketwatch ^ | July 31, 2013, 7:18 a.m. EDT | Carol Kopp
    Commentary: Easy to watch anything on the Internet on your TV*****************************************************Thinking of C-SPAN from their Archives.*********************************By Carol Kopp Here’s what all the noise was about on Monday morning. At Netflix headquarters, people were cheering. At the big cable companies , they were shaking in their boots. At Amazon , one executive might have been trying to explain what went wrong. At Google , they were just quietly smiling. It was all about a thumb-size, $35 gadget called Google Chromecast that came out last week with little fanfare, almost as an afterthought to the announcement of a new version of its...
  • Boxee Swings for Spot in Set-Top Box Ring [the web on TV]

    12/17/2009 8:19:02 AM PST · by smokingfrog · 7 replies · 480+ views
    technewsworld ^ | 12-9-09 | Jack Germain
       Soon there will be a ready-to-use open source option for viewing Web content on your TV: the Boxee Box. In collaboration with D-Link, Boxee will be offering a device that lets users surf the Web for video content without a computer, hard drive or keyboard. Boxee's value is tied to the content it channels into the user's home, remarked Bill Weinberg, principal consultant and independent analyst for Linux Pundit. 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...