After the demise of Ricavision, all hopes for a Windows SidesShow remote for Windows Media Center seemed lost (most MCE users were holding out for the RICA100 or VAVE100). Well, folks, Philips apparently stepped up to the plate a while back (May 2007 according to Amazon.com) to fill the niche and didn't make a big [...]

Forbes.com reporter, Lee Gomes, is shedding light on an interesting fact that many of VUDU's customers are probably not aware of. The problem Gomes points out is that VUDU is not being totally transparent that their video on-demand boxes function as peer-to-peer nodes downloading and sharing bits of digital information with other users throughout the [...]

It's probably true that most of our readers are more than happy using a traditional broadband provider for their home's Internet access, but I'm sure there's a few of you out there who are mobile warriors who want the lowdown on which cellular network currently has the fastest 3G download and upload speeds. So, it's [...]

More news from the DLNA today. First, we heard that MoCA became an approved networking standard (as well as 802.11n) for future DLNA certified products. Now, the Digital Living Network Alliance is announcing new features like improved photo, video, audio synchronization, WPA2 support for wireless security, "Play To" & "Print To" functionality for sending media [...]

Here's some interesting industry news. DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) has approved MoCA's (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) technology as a connectivity standard, along side Wi-Fi and Ethernet, in the next version of its Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines scheduled to be released in early 2009. For those unfamiliar MoCA, their technology enables users to pipe [...]

Okoro Media is announcing today that their OMS-TH550, OMS-GX100, OMS-GX300, and upcoming RK200 & RK300 Windows Media Center PCs will all be running Intel's quad core i7 processors. It should be noted that the Core i7 x86-64 processor can handle 8 process threads via Intel's Hyper-Threading technology at 2.66 or 2.93 GHz with three memory [...]

Look out! VUDU is taking their HD video on-demand box to a new level. The company is announcing the immediate availability of Internet content from sources like Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, as well as, a new “On Demand TV” feature with specialized material from more than 120 channels. But the best news, users will begin seeing [...]

I was just thinking... could the PS3 be the ultimate living room friendly platform for Boxee? If you remember at the beginning of December, Boxee announced Netflix streaming support for their platform; but, unfortunately, couldn't get it to work consistently on the Apple TV because it was underpowered. As such, the Apple TV gets knocked [...]