SBC and Yahoo have announced an expansion of their partnership aimed at improving brand visibility and revenue for both parties. Yahoo will provide numerous services for SBC's Project Lightspeed customers, and in return SBC will use quite a bit of Yahoo content throughout SBC's wireless broadband network. The previous arrangement was limited to Yahoo providing [...]

Grokster, one of the many P2P companies embroiled in lawsuits with the recording industry, and Mercora, a so-far legal streaming service, have announced a partnership that will provide Mercora's apparently-legal streams to Groksters' user base, which should be a good thing for both companies. The deal creates "Grokster Radio powered by Mercora," an on-demand streaming radio [...]

CES is still nearly two months away, but awards have already been, well, awarded. Among the "Best of Innovations" winners is Niveus' 1 Terabyte A/V Storage Serverp (MSRP $2999). The chief differentiator of the Niveus product is its home theater focus; the unit has A/V component styling, and no fans. While the nearly $3000 [...]

Taking a two-prong approach, Gateway today announced both low end and midrange media center PC's. Both run Windows MCE, and both are reasonable base units that can be customized online during the ordering process. The bigger news here is the 7200S, the midrange unit, which is based on the brand new BTX physical [...]

As more and more people hop on the broadband and wireless bandwagons, more and more of us are suffering from more and more small pieces of networking equipment stuffed into a cabinet or closet somewhere. Netgear aims to simplify the cable mess with their five-in-one ADSL modem / router / WiFi / firewall [...]

The good people over at Slim Devices have revved both hardware and software. The new Squeezebox player comes in four colors of varying taste, while the new version of the SlimServer streaming server supports more formats and gets a few other features as well. Taken together, the new hardware and software represent the [...]

Several sources are reporting today that TiVo will introduce a new advertising feature that has some impact on how the beloved fast forward button works. The gist of it seems to be that advertisers will now be able to buy banner ads of some sort that appear when a user fast forwards through their [...]

The commoditization and ubiquification (if you'll forgive the word) of VoIP and videophones marches on. Corinex has introduced a sub-$100 USB based videophone as well as a couple of phones intended for VoIP. The Corinex Internet VideoPhone is a USB device that offers hardware MPEG-4 capture and encoding using a 320k pixel (640x480) [...]