The tech world's just digging in to Google TV, now that Sony's units are in the limelight. But one fact is glaringly obvious from the unit's remote: This is not a unit for your Granny. Or possibly your parents. And that might be Google TV's undoing.READ»
Microsoft is using two ideas borrowed from Apple and RIM's smartphone dominance: Business app integration; and AT&T's U-Verse to take on Apple TV.READ»
Apple TV is out, and it's already been sliced and filleted, revealing Apple's long-term secret plan to get its app store onto your TV and beat the set-top-box brigade.READ»
Apple's refreshed TV product hasn't yet hit the stores, and though it revealed some of its details, Apple's been quiet about the tech potential inside the tiny box. Now its secrets are leaking, and it looks promising.READ»
This fall, one election really matters: Which set-top box will connect your TV to the Internet? Apple TV and Google TV have all the money, but fringe candidate Boxee Box, with its radical open-source philosophy, deserves a closer look.READ»
Intel CEO Paul Otellini accidentally announced the launch window for Google TV in an interview, along with who he expects the service will appeal to.READ»
Don't count out Google TV. The all-star collaboration between Google, Sony, Intel and Logitech is officially coming this fall, with a worldwide release coming next year. Better yet, it will offer voice control.READ»
Samsung just pulled the veil from its dual-core Orion low-power chip, based on ARM Cortex A9 designs. It's powerful, impressive. It may also be the secret behind Apple's next iPad/iPhone CPU.READ»
Google seemed to have stolen a march on the smart Net-connected TV market when it revealed is integrated Google TV a few months back. Now we're seeing prototypes at the IFA show ... and suddenly Google's offering is looking lost among the competition.READ»
Apple's latest iPod and Apple TV event was notionally about the snazzy product line, but it also reveals how much Apple's future hinges on its house-brand ARM chips--the A4 silicon is now inside four keystone Apple gizmos.READ»
The immediate reaction to the new, redesigned, strikingly cheap Apple TV is pity for Apple TV's competitors. Boxee, one of those competitors, sees it differently--and they might just be right.READ»
Getting movie studios to agree to a streaming video policy is no small task. Amazon is, according to a rumor, willing to fight that battle if they can come out with a Netflix competitor.READ»
The flood of opinions, analysis, guesses, prognostication, rumors, and insights gleaned from the reading of bird entrails always flows right up until a new Apple event--even one like tomorrow's, which many Apple observers ...READ»
Apple's September special event is tomorrow. Traditionally it's iPod refresh time, and iPod-esque rumors are a-swirlin'. But does Apple have something else hidden inside its guitar?READ»
According to a rumor, Google is deep in talks with movie studios to provide pay-per-view movie rentals on YouTube. Could this be another selling point for Google TV?READ»
Real-time console game interactivity is coming to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices, which transforms the phone from a communications curio to an integral part of your game system. Apple may be following the same route. Should Sony be scared?READ»
The rumors spin ever faster about Apple's iTV device--it'll apparently change everything, and now there's some evidence that Apple is training its in-store employees for "something big."READ»
Apple really wants to take a bite at the gaming market, as some novel patents show. But its third-party developers are already doing half its work for it, and dooming the PSP along the way.READ»
