In a move to gauge interest, Netflix is reportedly surveying subscribers (again) on how they'd feel about getting movies streamed directly to their TV via the Xbox 360 game console. Netflix spokesman, Steve Swasey, tells Reuters that nothing has been set in stone, but that the company is exploring opportunities for delivering movies to subscribers [...]

USA Today reports that Amazon MP3 has quietly moved into second place in total digital music sales behind Apple's iTunes Music Store. The result comes in an unprecedented 6 months from its launch and has got the major music labels excited about the growth potential and profitability of offering their music collections DRM free. Related: Why [...]

According to ABI Research, in coming years home network connections will no longer be an optional feature for many consumer electronics products, as digital content, social networking and IP services delivered through embedded network connections will be demanded by consumers in the devices they buy. The leading device categories for embedded networking in consumer electronics [...]

Mike Bombich, the developer behind Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac OS X, has rolled out a new update to his indispensable rsync based file backup and drive cloning utility. The update features a number of improvements which include: how it authenticates itself and interacts with other networked computers, permission workarounds to make sure everything [...]

Many Tricks has released yFlicks 3.3, an update to its movie manager/viewer for Mac OS X. With yFlicks, users can download, tag, organize and of course view their movies. This update adds coverflow for browsing your movies both in window and fullscreen mode, lets you access your iTunes movies from yFlicks, improves downloading from video [...]

Digital media is all around us. Music, images, video and television. It was not so long ago when this entire media was stored on physical items (expect live TV). But over the last decade or so, the digital media format has not gently worked its way into our lives, it has overwhelmed us. MP3 players, [...]

The title pretty much says it all. MediaCentral 2.7 still is offering the great features that it has become known for like Skype integration, games, Internet radio/TV, DVD playback, etc., but now the TV rendering engine has been replaced by the same one that powers TubeStick's “The Tube” software. The developer claims: “Thanks to the [...]

Since I'm not an electrical engineer by any stretch of the imagination, I'll let Thorrn explain how its electro-aerodynamic pumping based solid-state fan works in a sec. Bottom line: the technology provides a low profile (15x15x2mm), silent, ultra-efficient heat transfer system that outperforms much larger (and noisier) 40x40x10mm mechanical fans. Unfortunately, the website does not [...]