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TechCrunch: Yahoo launched Yahoo Go today, a DVR and general Microsoft Media Center competitor based on the recently acquired Meedio technology. The feature list is comprehensive: Use Yahoo Go to manage photos, search Yahoo videos, watch stored movies on your hard drive, listen to music and manage television shows via a full DVR (like […]

Engadget: Seems like every distant vision of the future has man jacking into his gear via some crazy head gear or a plug on the back of the neck or head. We just take it for granted that yeah, that’s the fastest way to get to the brain: through the stem or straight into the […]

Engadget: Add Linksys to the growing number of companies rolling out products that adhere to the draft 802.11n standard. The company’s new additions are the Wireless-N Broadband Router ( WRT300N) and Wireless-N Notebook Adapter (WPC300N ). As you’ve probably already figured out, the WRT300N can connect your equipment to your broadband network and serve […]

Engadget: You wouldn’t guess it from that conceptual looking pic, but Netgear is all prepped to start shipping their standalone WiFi Skype phone on June 30th. Amazon.com is accepting pre-orders now, with the phone going for a fairly steep $250, but at least it’s marked down $50 from the $300 list price. If you missed […]

The Register: Philips is attempting to patent a technique that would prevent viewers from skipping through ads embedded within recorded programmes or even channel surfing during broadcast ad breaks - or force viewers to cough up cash if they want to avoid the ads. “A viewer may either watch the advertisements or pay a […]

Interesting review of the alternative non-TiVo Comcast HD-DVR - “I can’t help but compare the experience to using a TiVo and while this DVR falls way short of the TiVo experience, it works well enough in the basic sense to keep me using it…”
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CNET.com: There’s a new standards war in town: HD-DVD versus Blu-ray. Both promise true high-resolution video and more features than the current generation of DVDs, but because the formats are incompatible, hardware manufacturers, movie studios, and now you the consumer have to choose sides. HD-DVD is first to market, with movies and players out […]

CNET News.com: Some folks would have liked nothing better than to marry the Macintosh off to the PC world right from the start. In 1985 Dayna Communications came out with something it called the MacCharlie. This contraption was an expansion box that fit around the Mac so you could run PC and Mac […]

Google’s new AJAX-based calendar beta is now publicly accessible to anyone with a gmail account. Cool features abound, including a plain-text based “quick add” feature (i.e., dinner with the wife at 7PM tomorrow). Also included are SMS, e-mail, or web-based event alerts and a great service that will automatically e-mail your daily agenda each day […]

Tech Digest:Over at HDTV UK, there’s news of Sony showing support for Blu-ray with the RC300 series desktop Vaio, which is listed now on the SonyStyle US website. Information is a bit scarce at the moment but it looks pretty hot on the home entertainment front with support for all manner of Blu-ray tasks […]