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Sky are hot out the box with 3D TV
Wow, I knew we were going to get a 3D offering from Sky but this is something else! So fast… Sky are broadcasting the first ever 3D sports match, a football (soccer for you US types) er on Sunday. Yep, a world first, and in the UK the first...
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Thu, Jan 28 2010 8:31 AM
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simonster
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Interesting way to use Aero Snap
Long’s spotted a great series of advertising by Microsoft in the US that’s got a digital home bent to it so I thought I’d throw it out there. In Australia Microsoft are sponsoring part of the Open tennis coverage and (very cleverly) using the snap...
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Fri, Jan 22 2010 12:07 PM
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simonster
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Seesmic Look is very cool
Wow, talk about a cool way of looking at tweets. This, my friends, is Seesmic Look, the second output from Seesmic since they’ve started developing closely with Microsoft. I’ve just downloaded it and started to play, and it’s very sexy looking...
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Thu, Jan 21 2010 3:22 PM
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iTunes in the cloud?
Techcrunch has an interesting article about Apple moving iTunes into the cloud, it certainly represents and interesting idea. According to the article the plan is for a fully fledged cloud based iTunes, perhaps removing the need for a local install...
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Thu, Jan 21 2010 9:26 AM
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simonster
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On10 covers every TV option
Sarah’s written a great and very, very, comprehensive article for On10.net about all the different options for watching TV in Windows Media Center without a TV tuner, she covers: Hulu PlayOn Boxee SecondRunTV TunerFree TubeCore ZeeVee SkyPlayer Wow, it...
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Wed, Jan 20 2010 12:07 PM
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simonster
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More tablets…
I seem to be getting hooked on the tablets. No not little pills but the new wave of gadgets we saw at CES and even more by some of the ones that missed CES. I’ve just spotted this at liliputing.com the HOTT M700 a small tablet (7”) that can...
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Tue, Jan 19 2010 10:36 AM
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simonster
NY Times on TV through Xbox360
The New York times has an interesting article on how Microsoft are positioning Xbox360 with major content providers, like Disney an ESPN to be a TV device in your living room. Nothing new there. Interesting that it’s popped up in the Business...
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Mon, Jan 18 2010 9:51 PM
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HP’s Slate, the best PMP ever?
At the CES keynote yesterday Ballmer unveiled the “beautiful” HP slate and gave it a brief demo using the Amazon kindle application. Cool stuff. One thing worth noting is that it’s running Windows 7 and that naturally (depending on the...
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Thu, Jan 07 2010 12:11 PM
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Stream Spotify to your Squeezebox or WMP
Now that Martin has released the beta of Spotify MCE I thought I’d explain quickly how you can stream Spotify all over your house. I use a Squeezebox for this, which is where the solution comes from, but equally anything that can play a HTTP MP3...
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Tue, Jan 05 2010 1:00 PM
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Media nirvana, buy once use in any format
According to the New York Times a group called DECE (Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem) is planning an announcement at CES about their plans to make content (Movies specifically) available in any format you choose once you’ve bought a single license...
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Mon, Jan 04 2010 8:41 PM
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