Dave Zatz Funny. TiVo wants to be the Google of television… but so does Google. What Google did for the Internet, TiVo is now doing for the TV, bringing people a combination of excellent search results and innovative discovery that can’t be found anywhere else. -Tom Rogers, TiVo CEO At Google’s annual developer conference yesterday, they elaborated on … Read more
After drooling over Sprint’s pre-release HTC EVO, I made a practical decision to go with the CDMA Nexus One instead. As I saw limited benefit from a 4G smartphone and felt the EVO was just too big. Also, real world battery life and 3G/4G switching were undocumented. Unfortunately, Google blew up their Nexus One experiment and … Read more
Over the next few weeks, TiVo Premiere owners will start seeing the second promised software update pushed since release. Like the prior 14.1c push, TiVo tells me 14.4 is a patch release designed to improve performance and stability. However, given the larger increment in numbering/naming this is either a very significant build and/or it houses some additional … Read more
The Mac OS X port (er, fork?) of the XBMC project continues to push forward. Like a Boxee, Plex turns our Macs into media centers — designed to be controlled via a 10′ interface. However, as the team’s sneak peek of recent alpha builds (video above) indicates, there are times when it’s more practical to manage … Read more
At long last, Slacker Radio 2.0 for iPhone is nearly here! Of course, the most notable and eagerly anticipated feature is the ability to cache stations for offline playback. Slacker’s updated app was submitted to Apple for review yesterday and, barring any show stoppers, should be available in iTunes in the next day or so. Slacker … Read more
Later today, Roku will make a UFC channel available to owners of their $99 box. While the highlight is obviously HD pay per view fights ($45ish?), freebie Octagon-related video content will also be available. Additionally, live event archives will be made available to PPV subscribers several days after the fact – which worked out well … Read more
John Biggs Takes A Call One one the reasons we don’t own an iPad yet is because I haven’t quite figured out how to hold and/or position it. After playing with a number of units, I know it’s heavier than say a Kindle but lacks the built in stand that a laptop hinge provides. Apparently, … Read more
I don’t have a lot of details on what will be reheard in the TiVo/DISH/Echo DVR patent infringement saga, as the story is breaking and I’m hopping on a plane in minutes. (I’m also no lawyer.) But I believe this is specific to continued infringement and contempt related to DISH’s workaround, rather than a revisit … Read more