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Does This Patent Reveal Secrets Of Apple Television?

Apple was just granted 22 fresh patents. Among ideas for smart clothing and new iPhone headsets is a patent relating to the Apple Television. It contains elements previously unseen--and that may contain important clues to the long-rumored Apple device.READ»

Cable TV's Female Execs On The Future Of Television

In this extended version of the roundtable article from our latest issue, three of cable's female executives talk about how television is evolving, how shows fail or succeed, and how everyone loves handfishing.READ»

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The Time-Shifters Have Taken Over TV

Don't own a DVR? Never time-shifted a TV show? Then you're now officially in the minority, according to Comcast. The end of traditional broadcast television is nigh.READ»

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Guard Your Living Rooms: Google and Its A-Team Are Coming to TV

Google has assembled a crack team of associates to launch a full-scale invasion into the living room. Yes, GoogleTV is real--or at least it will be soon.READ»

TiVo Introduces Series 4 (Premiere), Has Officially Discovered the Internet

At an event in NYC tonight, TiVo introduced the biggest change to their digital video recorder (DVR) in years with the Series 4, to be officially called the TiVo Premiere. It's the first TiVo box to use a new, Adobe Flash-based ...READ»

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Gadgets of the Decade

Tech innovations that changed the way we read, chat, listen to records, and clean the rug.READ»

When Is Live Television Coming to Game Consoles in the U.S.?

Microsoft and Sony both have plans to provide live television on their respective gaming machines this fall in Europe. Sony announced at GamesCom on Tuesday that it will bring BBC to U.K gamers, and other channels to various European ...READ»

Does the DVR Apple Television Rumor Make Sense?

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has gone all out in forecasting that Apple will enter the digital video recording net-connected television market by 2011. It's a bold assertion, with research behind the claims, and it seems to make ...READ»

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ComScore Sees the Bigger Picture

Tania YukiSenior Product Manager, Video Metrix comScore> New York, New York Tania Yuki, 29, works with comScore clients such as CBS, Google, Microsoft, and NBC to gauge who their online video content is actually ...READ»

TechWatch: Scientist Sells Secrets to Chinese; TiVo Sells Pizza to You

A Virginia scientist has plead guilty to selling rocketry technology secrets to the Communist regime in China, while Domino's has begun selling its Internet-ordered pizzas over TiVo set-top boxes.READ»

TiVo Coming To Your PC

Software company Nero announced today a new product called LiquidTV that will allow consumers to turn there Windows PCs into TiVo [TIVO] digital video recorders. Just as they would on a TiVo set-top box, users will be able to pause, ...READ»

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Sony Announces All-in-One Media Desktops

Sony [NYSE:SNE] has been producing all-in-one media PCs for a while now, but they've been alternately very cool mashups and very poorly executed technological abortions. Thankfully for mankind, some of the new Viaos are looking like ...READ»

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Advertisers Target Captive Audiences

If screens seem to be popping up everywhere, that's because they are. In a DVR world, advertisers are reaching outside the home for today's most desirable audience: a captive one. Anywhere people might be waiting equals an opportunity to air short-form content and advertising. Tune in to the forefront of "advertainment." READ»