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Digitizing life's clutter Los Angeles Times, CA Devices such as the Roku box and Apple TV make it possible to stream videos from the computer to the living-room set. Grandma in Atlanta can visit a video-sharing website to catch her grandchild's first step in Seattle. We can scroll through playlists ...

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Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake Apple Insider, VA I hear mention of 'WanSeg' TV, but talk about an unpleasant user experience. Watching TV was so confusing on my KDDI AU phone, that I gave up, even after reading the thick manual (yes, I read Japanese). Apple spends great gobs of time and money to make ... Japan and the iPhone: 'We're just not that into you' guardian.co.uk Apple's iPhone Flops in Japan, Now Sold for Free FOXNews Japanese iPhone “hate” disputed by Wired, Tokyo-based source iLounge Register - Cult of Mac all 94 news articles

A report intending to portray the iPhone as "hated" in the Japanese market turns out to have been built upon fake quotations from industry writers and observers who were misrepresented by remarks attributed to them that they never made. Their actual comments on the iPhone's prospects in Japan are far more interesting.

In addition to expected fixes, Apple's upcoming 10.5.7 update to Mac OS X Leopard is now claimed to recognize Intel's newer Nehalem architecture as well as AMD's ATI Radeon HD 4000 graphics chipsets.

How to topple the TV industry with a computer and a couple gizmos TechFlash, WA There's a lot of money behind keeping us in legacy TV. Vendors want to sell premium content and charge for converter boxes. Apple TV ($200 on up), Netflix ($100) and something called Personal TV systems ($150) all sell boxes that more or less "convert" ...

Proavio has released the EditBox EB4FR, its latest line of hardware RAID-5 storage systems created for the Mac. The EB4FR comes in both a desktop or rack-mountable model and offers a quad interface. Features of the storage device provide users with hot-swap capabilities for replacement of SATA disks, a front LCD configuration panel, and offers up to 6TB raw capacity and 4.5TB RAID-5 capacity. Each...

ActiveState has released Perl Dev Kit 8 (PDK), and update to its tools for developing and launching Perl applications. Two new features in the latest version include a platform wrapping capability which enables users to create and deploy programs to any platform, and a PerlApp function. PerlApp is designed for small development teams and allows users to run coding policies against their source cod...

Amazon this evening said in a statement that the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature for reading audiobooks will be strictly voluntary. The move will let individual book publishers decide whether or not individual titles can be read aloud by the e-book device and will change the book formatting to selectively disable the feature for those that object to it. The change follows objections from the A...

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Free TV.com comes to the iPhone Register, UK By Rik Myslewski • Get more from this author CBS Mobile has introduced a new free app into the iTunes App store that streams a selection of its TV.com content onto the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The content is provided by a variety of CBS properties, ... CBS Makes Television Shows Available on iPhone CIO Today Ten iPhone apps that didn't make the App Store Macworld First ever live TV channel available live via 3G on iPhone- and ... Know Your Mobile Telecompaper - Geek.com all 147 news articles

Amazon's second generation of its Kindle ebook reader takes cues from Apple in hopes to make the new product the "iPod of books." Here's a graphical tour of how close Amazon comes to replicating the iPod experience.