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Roku Streaming Stick: Smarten Up Your TV
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It looks like Roku has been reduced to a USB stick. The new Roku Streaming Stick is about to make your dumb TV a whole lot smarter, without much of a fuss. The stick now looks like a simply USB flash drive, and I have to say that I like… |
January 5th, 2012
CloudFTP Lifts Up USB-bound Data to Your Own Personal Cloud
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There are already a handful of solutions for streaming data to and from your portable device. You can use Dropbox or apps like Air Video or GoodReader to stream or transfer data. There are also products like Seagate’s GoFlex Satellite, a hard drive with wireless streaming capabilities. But I think… |
December 9th, 2011
Bang & Olufsen BeoLit 12 Speaker: B&O Gets Unsexy
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Bang & Olufsen are best known for their slick and modern high-end speakers, stereos and TVs, but they will soon be launching a portable speaker named the BeoLit 12 . Spotted in a recent FCC filing, the new speaker looks nothing like your typical B&O hardware.… |
November 15th, 2011
Hulu Plus Coming to the Nintendo Wii, 3DS
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Thus far, the Wii has only had Netflix for streaming content, but that will change soon. Nintendo has announced that Hulu Plus will be available on both the Wii and the 3DS very soon. While we don’t have a launch date yet, we do know that it will hit “both … |
October 24th, 2011
Hulu Says No Deal… to Anyone
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I never really understood why Hulu would have wanted to sell itself to a new owner. It already had the perfect owners to get access to the content it needs to be successful. Still, the bidders circled with firms like Microsoft and Google said to be in the running. After… |
October 14th, 2011
Spotify Opens Free Service to All Comers in US
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Listen up music fans, we have some good news for you. I would bet that a bunch of you tried to get in on the free program that Spotify offered for listening for up to ten hours a month when it landed in the states a few months back. The… |
September 23rd, 2011
Netflix Lets Starz Walk, Streaming Deal to End
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OK, Netflix and Starz listen up – You’re killing me, Smalls! Seriously, the single best thing for me on Netflix is that when Starz has a movie or show I want to watch I know it will all be on Netflix. My kids watch the children’s films they have on… |
September 3rd, 2011
Marvel Digital Smart TV Enabler Makes Dumb TVs Slightly More Intelligent
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While the idea of a set-top box is nothing new, this box will allow you to stream digital content and to smarten your ‘dumb’ HDTV thanks to Android. It’s something useful if your TV isn’t ‘smart’ yet, and doesn’t yet allow you to access your home network to stream files.… |
August 18th, 2011
DIDO Promises Games Streamed from the Cloud with Less Latency than Local
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Now this is one cool invention for gamers. You may be familiar with the cloud game service that streamed the games to your TV or computer called OnLive. The bane of any online gamer’s existence is lag and if you have played online games you surely know what a drag… |
July 30th, 2011
Roku XD Lands at Best Buy
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I don’t like to buy stuff online. Not because I don’t trust online sellers or anything, I just don’t like to wait for stuff to arrive. I want to walk in a store, and walk out with whatever it is I want. If you are the same way and have… |
March 31st, 2011
