Yeahhhhhhhhh boyeeeeee, it’s CHRISTMAS, yo!!! You know what that means!!! ENGADGET PODCAST TIME — WITH PRESENTS!!!!! HIT IT!!! Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Last Christmas 00:03:35 – Verizon teases Android LTE hardware for January 6th at CES 00:03:50 – New HTC device starts leaking piecemeal — is it the [...]
Logitech has reportedly frozen supplies of its Revue Google TV box from manufacturer Gigabyte, with sources claiming the company is waiting on Google to finalize either updates or a new version of the platform. According to DigiTimes, December and January’s production has been halted, although in-store supplies of the STB aren’t expected to be impacted. [...]
Oh dear. Google TV isn’t having the best of starts to its life in the internet-connected TV world and Logitech seems to have taken notice. DigiTimes‘ nameless sources today report that Gigabyte, the company charged with building Revue units for Logi, has been instructed to stop production of them for the period covering December 2010 [...]
We’ve been having an excellent little conversation around the Notion Ink tablet – and tablets in general – over at CrunchGear these past few weeks and I thought it might be interesting to address some of the magical thinking that poisons tech, especially hardware, discussion. Because you and I are reading tech blogs and because [...]
“Well dreams, they feel real while we’re in them, right? It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.” Cobb’s quote from Inception reminds me of something. Something going on right now, seemingly all around us. It doesn’t feel like a dream, but increasingly, I’m not so sure. Something just isn’t [...]
Sony remains upbeat about Google TV, despite the search giant itself asking hardware partners not to show new STBs and HDTVs featuring the system at CES 2011 next month. Hiroshi Yoshioka, head of Sony’s TV business, described Google TV sales as “in line with expectations,” the NY Times reports, despite conceding that “some reviews have [...]
It’s been mostly bad news about content blocks for Google TV since the platform launched in late October, but it sounds like Sony’s staying optimistic: Hiroshi Yoshioka, head of the company’s TV division, told the New York Times that Sony’s Google TV sales have been “in line with expectations,” and that “it might take a [...]
We were expecting to see a slew of new Google TV-powered displays and boxes at CES in a couple of weeks, but now The New York Times is reporting the list of new product partners at the show may be much shorter than expected. The cause is reported to be Google’s last minute decision to [...]
As someone that loves watching television shows and movies, I’ve been a subscriber to Netflix’s streaming service since the beginning. At that point, it wasn’t the most robust service, but I didn’t really care — it delivered enough entertainment value to make me happy. But 2010 has been a great year for Netflix’s streaming service. [...]
First, a confession. This guide is always “last minute,” mostly because I get so busy covering all the new devices launched just in time for the holiday shopping season that I end up starting the holiday gift guide late. Last year it was so late that I gave up and turned it into a Best [...]