Vincent Poulain
Google TV review. Google's taking a big leap with Google TV -- unlike its competitors, who've all focused on delivering curated video content with inexpensive streaming devices, Google's new platform brings Android, Chrome, and Flash directly to your TV in a variety of hardware configurations from Sony and Logitech. But whether you're adding Google TV to your existing rig with a Logitech Revue or starting from scratch with a Sony Internet TV, the basic experience of using each product is the same -- it's the web on your TV, in all its chaotic and beautiful glory. Is this the future of television? Can Google do what no company has ever managed to do in the past and put a little PC in your TV? Boxee Gets a New Hardware Partner. Just in time for CES, Boxee has announced a new hardware partnership with Iomega that will bring the Boxee media center software to a series of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.
Dubbed Iomega TV with Boxee, the new devices are similar to the Boxee Box by D-Link that started shipping back in November. The Iomega TV with Boxee will be with either 1TB or 2TB hard drives or in a model without onboard storage. Like the Boxee Box, the Iomega TV with Boxee runs on the Intel Atom processor and with built-in Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, composite and HDMI outputs and support for additional storage via USB. In its blog post announcing the new product, Boxee notes that the shared system-on-a-chip architecture between Iomega's devices and the Boxee Box will make it easier for Boxee developers, as the firmware can be virtually identical.
The Boxee software platform supports more than 150 different apps that let users access online video, Twitter, Facebook, Pandora and more. Study: Americans Now Use Internet As Much As They Watch TV. And there it is: Americans now spend as much time on the Internet as they do watching TV.
So says a new study released by Forrester Research, which says that people now spend 121 percent more time online than they did only five years ago. What’s probably most significant is that these stats now include people in the 30+ age group; it’s not just college student insomniacs who spend their time online these days. As you might guess, some of this increase can be attributed to the rise of streaming video services like Hulu. (Let’s not forget that, in 2006, YouTube was hardly the force that it’s become.) Thirty-three percent of adults now admit to watching streaming video online, which is up from 18 percent only three years ago. Sociétés : Google cherche l'apaisement en France. AllVid Battle Lines: Google, Best Buy, Sony Ally Against Big Cable.
You know there’s going to be a showdown over some communications technology issue when Google, Best Buy, Mitsubishi, Sony, TiVo and two other big companies start a new group with the word “alliance” in it.
Sure enough, the septet has announced that they’ve united to defend the Federal Communications Commission’s new proposal for an “AllVid” standard that would make it easier for consumers to watch both pay television and the video they get from their home broadband network on the same screen. Thus has been born the “AllVid Tech Company Alliance” — named in honor of the FCC’s suggested gateway interface.
“It is essential for the Commission to break down the wall separating the home network from [pay TV] networks — not just poke a few holes in it, or rely on progress on the peripheries,” the Alliance wrote to the FCC on Wednesday. How would AllVid break down this wall? AllVid could be connected to TVs, computers — pretty much anything that can show multichannel video or internet fare. Télévision - L'année TV 2010 : record battu!
Places - Comment ça marche ? Google Music arrivera avec Android 3.0, selon Motorola. S'il existe déjà de nombreux concurrents à iTunes Store, aucun n'a véritablement menacé la position privilégiée d'Apple dans la musique.
En quelques années, la firme de Cupertino a fait de sa plate-forme l'un des points de passage les plus prisés par les internautes. Mais la situation pourrait évoluer très bientôt, à en croire les propos du responsable de la division mobile de Motorola. Lors du Mobile World Congress à Barcelone, Sanja Jha a en effet indiqué que la prochaine version d'Android pour tablettes numériques, Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), contiendra un nouveau service musical proposé par Google. Google Music, à quoi ça va ressembler... - So_cult’ - ElectronLibre. Google riposte à Apple avec One Pass. La TV connectée vécue comme une catastrophe par les TV historiques. - Old fashion media - ElectronLibre.
La gestion collective fera-t-elle partie du futur? » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Les sociétés de gestion collective essaient de garder le contrôle sur leurs catalogues mais parviendront-elles à soutenir le rythme effréné d'innovation que le numérique implique ?
La transparence des sociétés de gestion collective fait débat, partout en Europe. Depuis quelques mois, les habituelles critiques des ayants droit et des utilisateurs sont désormais relayées avec force par les politiques. Et loin des média, des acteurs puissants œuvrent pour mettre fin à l’hégémonie de la gestion collective sur les droits d’auteur. Au point que se pose désormais la question, taboue s’il en est au pays de Beaumarchais : « La gestion collective est-elle obsolète ?
» Lorsque les sociétés de gestion collective de droit d’auteur sont apparues en Europe au milieu du XIXe siècle, elles répondaient à une attente forte des créateurs, qui jusqu’alors n’arrivaient pas à faire entendre leur voix auprès des utilisateurs de leurs œuvres (théâtres, cabarets, bals, etc). ZaOza ose la vidéo - Web 1,2,3 - ElectronLibre. Roku Hits 1M Units Sold [INFOGRAPHIC] Roku tells us it has just achieved two notable milestones.
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It's now serving 1 billion content streams and has sold 1 million units, making 2010 quite the breakout year for this company. Roku also topped Amazon's video devices charts for the gift-giving holidays in the fourth quarter of the year. In fact, the Roku XDS was one of our own top-10 picks this year for gadget gifts. With these kinds of numbers signalling the devices' growing popularity, we foresee good things as Roku units will be advancing to retail outlets in 2011. Anthony Wood is the company's founder and CEO. “If you think about it, our active user base now matches that of a top-10 U.S. cable company.
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