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Boxee is home theater PC software that makes watching streaming and downloaded media on your TV a real delight. It’s really popular for people who have Mac Minis hooked up in their living rooms, as it can be installed right on top of OS X. That is to say, you need a computer in your living room to run it. That won’t be the case forever!... 

Boxee’s media player software app promises to free us all from stinky, trashy preprogrammed television by bringing web video’s hassle-free, on-demand, click-to-watch experience onto our HDTVs. The somewhat clunky alpha release of Boxee’s software has been around since the beginning of the year, but the company took a big step... 

Apple quietly purchased Placebase, an online-mapping company, earlier this year. The acquisition could indicate the Cupertino, California, company’s plans to reduce its dependence on Google services, such as the Google Maps application currently built into the iPhone operating system. The news of the acquisition broke unofficially on Twitter... 

Questionably christened the world’s first 1TB portable hardware-encrypted hard drive, Origin Storage’s extra-capacious Data Locker Secure Drive is certainly the one to get if you’re paranoid about whatever it is you’d keep on such a large platter. Also available in 750GB, 500GB and 320GB models, the drives are secured by... 

Ruslan Kogan admits that he doesn’t make demand. He’s not someone who can come up with a product and make people want it. But when a company like Apple turns around and creates interest in a whole new segment of computing device, Kogan knows he can service that demand. And that’s what he’s going to do when he releases his... 

Although Hulu didn’t get behind Boxee like I’d hoped (and will be implementing its own subscription service soon ), we can still look forward to the sleek and stylish Boxee Box which will hit the shelves in 2010. Streaming all your online TV, movies, videos, as well as files and apps from your own personal hard drive, the Boxee Box... 

(Credit: Matt Hickey) T-Mobile on Sunday took the veil off of its rumored new aggressive pricing plans and made them official . And they’re not just attractive, they’re simple as well. They are split into two major categories: the Even More Plus plans that don’t include hardware subsidization but has no contract, and the Even... 

LAS VEGAS — A host of video services on the web enable you to watch your favorite TV programs and movies anytime you wish, and Boxee is an open platform striving to weave them all into one neat interface. To get the Boxee experience onto a TV, D-Link has launched a set-top box dedicated to the open video platform, along with a special remote.... 

Sagem Orga was on the floor of MWC this week, a company that really doesn’t typically draw a lot of attention outside wireless industry suits who fly out to Barcelona to broker deals — at least, not until they do something totally insane like stuff a WiFi radio into a SIM card . We talked to the company a little bit about its coin-sized... 

Chinese Internet search giant Baidu this morning announced plans to set up a new independent company to provide licensed, advertising-supported online video content to Chinese Internet users. Reuters earlier this week caught wind of the company’s plans to launch the Hulu-like destination site, and also reported that Hulu investor Providence... 

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