After seeing this one, all I can say is, “Good for you, Eric Schmidt.” The Google chairman recently addressed UK broadcasters, urging them to embrace the future, i.e. streaming entertainment. At the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, he talked about how the nature of the television industry is changing, and told them

Right now, it’s like there’s a war brewing to see which mystical combination of hardware, software and services will captivate the TV-loving masses. Given the recent news of the Logitech Revue Google TV getting a price drop to $99, you’ve got to wonder how well some areas of this niche are doing. Everyone seems to

Finally — Boxee software users will be getting some love. It seemed for awhile there that all the attention was being showered on people who owned the actual Boxee Box hardware. The online content streaming program offered an extremely novel and fresh interface back in 2007, when Boxee debuted. It allowed users to navigate and

Boxee’s been around for awhile now as a software platform, with a decent following amongst alpha and beta testers. A few months back D-Link launched the Boxee Box, the first piece of hardware built specifically to run the media center platform. The Intel-powered set top box features wired and wireless networking, support for HD video,

The Boxee Box set-top box is now available for pre-order, after several months of delay. The device is set to ship in November and when it does, it’ll sport new chips inside which according to Boxee, was responsible for the delay.  Instead of the previously announced Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset, the oddly shaped set-top will

The long awaited Boxee Box is growing closer to public release and Boxee Chief Product Officer Zach Klein takes you through a hardware tour of the sinking black box.  The Boxee Box is on schedule to reach customers sometime in the late October/early November timeframe to bring HD video directly from the web to your

Things don’t seem to be headed in the right direction over at NBC.  First we learned they’re selling out to Comcast (or Xfinity), then we had the oh-so-popular Conan debacle, and now they’re making some outrageous claims against Boxee when questioned as to why they were blocking the little black box from accessing Hulu’s content.