Sharp and Toshiba used the occasion of "CE Week" to announce that their first their first Ultra HD TVs will arrive in August. Sharp will have a single 70-inch Aquos LCD model that will sell for $8,000, while Toshiba will have three Ultra HD ...
If you don't have an Internet-connected television or Blu-ray player but would still like access to the growing amount of content available online, a separate streaming media player is an easy, inexpensive solution. While Apple TV and Roku ...
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Sony's gaming division pulled its latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 Wednesday, after widespread reports that installing it could render the console useless. Gamers took to Twitter and online forums such as Reddit to spread word ...
Tags: Sony, PS3, Bricks Consoles
Redbox Instant, the fledgling streaming-media service from Redbox (Coinstar) and Verizon, will get a boost this summer when it becomes available on several of Roku's streaming set-top boxes. Redbox Instant is a hybrid service that ...
Tags: Redbox Instant, Media and Disc Service, Roku
If you've checked through our most recent TV Ratings and don't see a model or series you're considering, we might be checking it out right now. Here are the HDTVs currently being tested in our labs. Among the notable models is the Sony ...
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Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified workflow. "We really tried hard to create a whole new, more efficient Jira," said Dan ...
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. "Beards, Birkenstocks, blue jeans, T-shirts," Metcalfe said earlier ...
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A laptop and desktop from Vizio—the Vizio CT15T-B1 Ultrabook and the Vizio CA24T-B0, respectively—are the first computers into our labs with the latest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac. Though it's up and running, it's still an emerging ...
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IDG News Service - Dell's thumb-sized PC called Project Ophelia, which is the size of a USB stick, will start shipping in July for around $100. The Android-based device will plug into a display's HDMI port so that it can run applications ...
Connectify Kickstarts Cloud Service For Faster Internet On Mac and PC Connectify has begun a Kickstarter campaign to launch Connectify Switchboard, the company's new cloud service that lets Mac and PC users combine multiple Internet ...
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Shares in US book retailer Barnes & Noble closed more than 24 per cent higher in New York yesterday following a report that Microsoft is to buy the digital assets of Nook Media, its ebook and tablet business, for $1bn (£650m). ...
Yahoo has begun talks on a possible purchase of the online video website Hulu, the Dow Jones news site AllThingsD has reported. The move comes after the French government blocked Yahoo's effort to take a controlling stake in another ...
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Although we're just a few days away from posting new TV ratings—which include both smart TVs and more bare-bones models from LG, Panasonic, Samsung and Vizio, among others—our engineers are already hard at work testing the next ...
Tags: HD TV, Plasma TVs
Google plans to offer a video subscription service on YouTube, which according to a newspaper report, the company may announce this week. YouTube is "looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content ...
Have you been letting extended family members and friends use your Netflix log-in? Netflix would rather you didn't. The company unveiled a new $12 Family Plan that lets you stream four movies to different devices at the same time. Under the ...
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