There's a lot a buzz this morning that Microsoft is going embrace ARM processors so it can compete more effectively on the tablet front. Wall Street Journal's sources tell them that it is "part of a broader push at Microsoft to make Windows more 'modular' so that pieces of the operating system that are unnecessary [...]

Today the FCC voted 3-2 for "net neutrality" regulation that will allow broadband providers to charge alleged bandwidth hogging services a toll to run through their pipes. The neutrality bit comes from the fact that consumers won't be forced into paying for a "faster, less congested highway" and won't be blocked from accessing websites of their choosing (kind [...]

Got to love this! PLANEX has just launched a new product in Japan that the rest of the world will desperately want when they get wind of it. The MZK-SNG02U is network adapter similar to other "plug computers" in that it can turn your external USB hard drive into a NAS device, but this one [...]

OK, we've seen an AirPlay hack that allows an iDevice to zap content over to a Mac for playback as if it were an Apple TV. Now, we're seeing an iDevice, in this case an iPad, zap content over to XBMC running on Ubuntu / Linux. The python script, as you can see in the [...]

This is a gutsy move! Motorola obviously feels confident that its partnership with Google will produce the most advanced tablet to hit the market in 2011. We saw an early glimpse of the device at D: Dive into Mobile, courtesy of Andy Rubin's demo (shown above). So far we know the device is based on [...]

Newteevee has been covering what's been going on with TiVo's new cable box partners. It turns out that any cable operator TiVo licenses its platform to can't support a Netflix or Hulu Plus app (coming soon) to supply network TV content outside the service. It's no problem with an off-the-shelf CableCARD-equipped TiVo Premiere box, but [...]

Love 'em or hate 'em digital media adapters and networked set-tops are what bring users content from the web and/or from their networked PCs to a TV. Below is Amazon's bestsellers list for today (minus the peripherals and devices without network connectivity), which is a good gage for what people are buying out of all [...]

I've silently been admiring Roku's strategy to build a drop-dead simple 'net-connected media streamer that anyone can understand, install, and easily use. It's never had a major marketing campaign, no interesting jingle that plays back over and over in your mind, and it surely doesn't tell your friends how cool you are. It's a device [...]