technabob.com - 5/19/2009
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While Apple TV gives its users access to a lot of popular movies and TV shows, its limited functionality and lack of support for other popular sources of content means that it won’t be as popular as Apple’s other products. Which is why upstart Myka ’s digital media receiver ...
macnn.com - 5/22/2009
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macnn.com —
Jerome R. Bellegarda is one of Apple’s leading
Spoken Language Group engineers. He’s been involved in writing...
many of Apple’s patents over the years relating to Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Synthesis. He’s written a book on Latent Semantic ...
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Apple Secretly Adding Voice Command Technology into ...
newteevee.com - 5/15/2009
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newteevee.com —
Apple created a little bit of an uproar
this week when it refused to approve a BitTorrent...
application for its App Store. The company explained the rejection by saying that this “category of applications is often used for the purpose of ...
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Take That, Apple: Download Torrents With Your iPhone ...
torrentfreak.com - 5/24/2009
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torrentfreak.com —
Two weeks from now, Mininova will be in
court facing the local anti-piracy watchdog BREIN. In a...
report dedicated to the upcoming trial, the TV program EénVandaag asked 3500 Dutch youngsters aged between 12 and 24 years old about their download ...
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Dutch Youth Addicted to BitTorrent
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Myka open-source media player takes on Apple TV
SlashGear —
... content owners, studios and TV networks” to get some more legitimate media onto the box, with Netflix support also tipped as just around the corner. Until then, it looks like a sleek way to download content and play it back.
Myka is available to order now, priced at $300 for the 80GB model, $350 for the 160GB and $460 for the 500GB.
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Myka, the set-top box I talk myself out of buying in just over 300 words
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... reveals that they're referring to the Broadcom BCM7403 "video system-on-a-chip", a 300MHz MIPS processor that is specially built for video decoding and encoding, but will be mostly useless for any heavy general purpose computing.
In fact, the more that I look at this, the more it appears to be a DVR-class box in a smaller form factor with a custom interface. That's not a bad thing by any means, but it's certainly not going to be a screamer. [via Technabob] ...
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