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Intel Media Key Executive Lost Shortly Before Grand Launch

25th of April 2013 08:03 GMT

The IT industry can be home to lots of strange things, despite how straightforward some may think it is. One example is what happened in Intel's media business division the other day. Intel, being the world-class business conglomerate that it is, is composed of a whole bunch of sub-divisions. The CPU company ...

ASUS Qube Now Named Cube, Google TV Set-Top Box – Video

15th of April 2013 05:15 GMT

Google TV is one of the few web TV services that managed to make itself well known, and in a relatively short time, even though it mostly rode Google's brand strength to do it. ASUS is now making the latest move in this field. As a television broadcast service that uses the Internet, it can reach viewers throu...

Intel Negotiating Deals for Its Approaching Internet TV Service [Bloomberg]

27th of March 2013 06:36 GMT

While it won't ever become a player on the cable and set-top box industry, there is still one avenue for television that Intel can exploit: Internet TV. As it happens, Chipzilla is seriously working towards a successful entry in this market. Intel has been making forays in the multimedia industry for a long tim...

CD Player Scans the Disk Multiple Times to Eliminate Errors

26th of March 2013 04:41 GMT

One would think that CD players would be a thing of the past at this point, but that is not so. There are still home stereo CD players on sale, even unusual ones like the CD 1 from Parasound. CD 1 is a standalone CD player that reads a disk multiple times during playback in order to find and eliminate errors. That...

Verizon Will Only Offer Whatever TV Channels Users Want [WSJ]

19th of March 2013 06:44 GMT

Cable service providers offer their customers packets, and while some of them group channels according to category, they still offer whole sets, of which not all channels may be of interest. Verizon may be the first with the required boldness to change this, at least according to a rumor coming from The Wall Street...