DivX TV: Online Television, No Box Required [VIDEO]

What’s different about DivX’s approach to bringing Internet TV to your living room is that it doesn’t require you to purchase a separate hardware box to funnel the content.

Other solutions like the Boxee Box and the Popbox are bits of hardware that have a footprint in your home theater, which can be a barrier when space is at a premium or where consumer preference is for less “tech” in the living room....

from Mashable

worth posting that video as a separate item...

Yahoo Further Bridges the Gap Between Internet and TV

Today at CES, Yahoo is expanding its partnerships and making the TV Widget Developer Kit publicly available.

In 2009, Yahoo! launched a pretty cool product known as Connected TV, which is built on the venerable Konfabulator widget platform. Basically it allows users with compatible TVs to access Internet-enabled widgets for stuff like stock updates, weather tracking and even Twitter. Now, you can get your hands on even more compelling technology...

from Mashable

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Comment: If Blink aren't in on this - or don't very soon get in on it - then the company's management really are a bunch of clueless muppets who should be removed forthwith and replaced with people who have more than two brain cells to rub together...

Reply from Citi

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Reply to mine of 28th December

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Comment: The shares haven't remained volatile at all - they've stayed pretty constantly at about a third of the IPO price...

Wonder who the other institutions were who bought as well as Autonomy?

In Odd Coincidence, App Store Hits Three Billion Downloads Milestone on GPhone Day

Apple’s iTunes App Store has hit another milestone: More than three billion applications downloaded. Impressive, considering it has been a little over three months since the App Store crossed the two-billion-downloads mark. Even more so when you remember, as CEO Steve Jobs reminds us in a gloating press release, that those three billion applications were downloaded in under 18 months...

from Digital Daily

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Comment: Three billion apps. Three. Billion. Apps.

And not one of them a Blinkx app - because they haven't written any!

Clueless, absolutely bloody clueless. The entire apps-economy revolution passing them by, while they try to sign up the next BobVila.com...

Blinkx - Top 100 websites Arts ..No 64..

64. www.blinkx.com/

blinkx is the world s largest and most advanced video search engine. blinkx has indexed over 32 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand.

From the site: History » blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. Founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, the company completed a tremendously successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May, 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of US$350M*, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and the UK. blinkx has built a reputation as the Remote Control for the Video Web. ... More...

http://news8888.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-100-websites-arts.html

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Comment: If only Blinkx had a share price to match. I really don't understand this company management's pathological aversion to making their shareholders happy - or indeed to telling them anything about anything...

Oh, and that market cap is well out of date. $350m - I wish! Currently £52.75m, according to iii...

Google takes on Apple's iPhone

"GOOGLE, the internet search engine giant, will this week go into battle against Apple, the technology group, when it launches a smart-phone to much fanfare.

It is expected to unveil the Google-branded device, Nexus One, on Tuesday at a briefing at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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In October, Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told analysts that the number of mobile internet searches grew by 30% in the third quarter over the previous three months..."

from The Sunday Times

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Comment: So mobile search is growing massively (one might even say exponentially?) and yet Blinkx aren't interested, don't have any mobile apps, don't think it's important.

And people wonder why the share price is stuck at a third of the IPO price...

Sooner we get a new management team that has a bloody clue the better, you ask me...