Apple’s TV box has, over the past few years, transformed itself from novelty side-project to amazingly useful living room essential. A new software update has just rolled out to show the diminutive puck some new tricks, but is it the death knell for the oft-rumoured Apple TV set? Read more
Where’s this massive HDTV from Apple, then? We’ve been waiting for the company to lift the lid on its rumoured display for a while now, but has it just completely changed its plans? The word is that getting more partners on board is now the main focus. Will Sky be among them? Read more
The Boxee Box media streamer has added a new string to its bow in the US, by unveiling a branded Antenna add-on that’ll bring content from some of the biggest American networks to the device with no monthly subscription.
Boxee fans have been installing the media centre software on their computers for years, but newcomers snapping up a Boxee Box have been getting special treatment: namely, Boxee’s awesome remote. We raved about it in our Boxee Box review, but now it’s going on sale separately, so Mac and PC home theatre buffs can get a slice of the QWERTY-backed action.
The Boxee Box is the media centre software maker’s first ever set top box, made in partnership with computer hardware giant D-Link. Priced at £199.99, this strangely shaped media streamer packs Wi-Fi, Ethernet, HDMI, USB and SD card slots, and will support just about every video codec under the sun. It also allows for streaming of HD Flash video from the web through Boxee apps. Continuously updated.
If your desk is as cluttered with files, papers and empty pizza boxes like our desks, then you’re going to need a tiny PC to take up as little of that precious desktop estate as possible. Stepping forward with a footprint the size of a baby chihuahua, the Asus Eee Box is the netbook-specialists ultra-mini PC.
Just a few hours to go now ’til the weekend. Top up on that Friday feeling with our round up of all the latest tech news from around the world today. It’s all right here in the lunchtime lowdown.
We’ve been lusting after the BlackBerry Thunder for months, but now we know it’ll be launched as the Storm. How do we know? Because we’ve now seen the packaging it’ll be sold in!
