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100 million downloads for Samsung Apps and Angry Birds

Published on: 28th March, 2011

On March 24, 2011, Samsung announced that the Samsung Apps TV and mobile application store has already seen almost 100 million downloads since the launch of the service in June 2010. The milestone was reached in about 10 months and the store currently offers over 13,000 applications for Samsung’s hardware offerings. As a comparison, the [...]

Mitsubishi to drop LCD TVs and focus on 73-inch and even larger

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Mitsubishi has recently announced that it would abandon the LCD TV business. The company intends to focus on 73-inch and even larger sets and may also include projection sets, as well as LaserVue TVs. Cayce Blanchard, Senior Vice President, declared that Mitsubishi’s purpose is to retake the top spot as the largest screen company. This [...]

Philips outs Cinema 21:9 Gold TV with passive 3D, 16:9 and 400Hz

Published on: 13th March, 2011

Philips has unveiled the upcoming release of its ultra widescreen TV, the Cinema 21:9 Gold. The new TV set has a wider aspect ratio compared to traditional 16:9 HDTV sets. It also sports passive 3D technology. Dubbed Easy 3D, the new TV of Philips would provide 3D images with light and simple eyeglasses, cheaper than [...]

Google negotiating for live sport events on YouTube

Published on: 27th February, 2011

YouTube, owned by Google, is said to be in talks with the NHL and NBA to stream live games. Google’s plan follows a successful trial of live transmissions of cricket matches or other special events like Arcade Fire at Madison Square Garden. The search giant is currently screening about three billion advertisements in YouTube videos [...]

Vodafone introduces Webbox for TV-based web browsing using Opera

Published on: 20th February, 2011

Vodafone has just revealed its Webbox product, a keyboard bringing the ability to browse the Internet on users’ TVs. The device connects through a wired RCA connection and needs Opera Mini 5.1 to provide a web link. As it comes from a phone carrier, the device also supports –mail messaging and built-in SMS, as well [...]

Premiere for all-3D TV network on February 13

Published on: 14th February, 2011

A network exclusively dedicated to 3D TV broadcasting has launched on the 13th of February. It is called 3net and is offered by DirecTV on channel 107. The network is a joint venture between Discovery Communications, IMAX and Sony. The channel has aired two original programs in native 3D, each one-hour long, Forgotten Planet and [...]

Sales under expectations for Toshiba’s glasses-free 3D TVs

Published on: 7th February, 2011

The president of Toshiba’s Visual Products Company, Masaaki Osumi, said a few days ago that Toshiba had sold only about half of what was expected to of the glasses-free 3D TVs in Japan. It has only sold 500 of the 20-inch TVs with prices of $2,490 in the first month and less than that of [...]

Apple confirms to have sold one million Apple TVs

Published on: 30th December, 2010

Apple recently confirmed its earlier predictions that it would ship one million Apple TVs. A company’s spokesperson confirmed the media hub exceeded the milestone a few days ago. Exact numbers have not yet been confirmed by the tip at AllThingsD. With about 333,000 devices per month, the growth is much behind other iOS-based devices from [...]

Google’s Chrome operating system will soon come to handhelds, tablets and TVs

Published on: 15th December, 2010

The vice president of Google’s engineering for Chrome, Linus Upson, recently unveiled his company’s plans of expansion of the Chrome operating system beyond netbooks. he said that the web application platform was meant to traditional compute design, but also had the potential to constitute an alternative to Android on smaller devices and Google TV provided [...]

TV studios blocked Google TV over piracy fears

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Google TV is partly blocked by TV studios over piracy concerns, according to some sources. CBS and Disney’s ABC have already confirmed that they would keep the TV OS from viewing their respective Flash video sites. The Wall Street Journal found out from leaks that NBC and Disney have considered Google was not doing enough [...]

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