Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 13 at 8:36 am PT
Get ready for an app explosion, Roku says — including ones from cable providers.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 4 at 6:59 am PT
Roku, maker of set-top boxes that stream media like Netflix and Angry Birds to TVs, is hoping its new Streaming Stick will offer all the bells and whistles of “smart” TV sets.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 26, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT
Boxee, maker of that irregular-shaped video-streaming device with the nifty Qwerty remote, is turning its focus toward TV boxes and tablets, and away from its PC software.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2011 at 6:07 am PT
A new $50 dongle provides a good opportunity to check in with CEO Avner Ronen and get a state-of-the-state on his business. Short version: Users like his stuff; big TV programmers, not so much.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on August 24, 2011 at 6:04 pm PT
Walt reviews three set-top boxes that make it easy to bring Internet content to your TV, minus the wires, mice and keyboards.
Voices
Lauren Goode, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 2, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Despite earlier promises that Boxee’s fledgling web-to-TV hardware device, the Boxee Box, would offer a Netflix app by the end of last year, the startup company has faced another setback.
“We’re in a bit of an awkward spot at the moment,” Boxee wrote on its blog early Tuesday, and went on to explain that Boxee is still not offering a Netflix app on its hardware due to security issues.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 4:37 am PT
There’s already an “official” Boxee Box, but if the Web video start-up succeeds it will be by getting its software on lots and lots of boxes. So here’s another one: A “
Network Attached Storage” device–the equivalent of a very big thumb drive–from Iomega that will retail for $229 and up. For a reminder of what Boxee is trying to do, check out this interview with CEO
Avner Ronen.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 24, 2010 at 12:01 am PT
Go West, East Coast VC?
In fact, the 10-year-old venture capital firm
General Catalyst Partners is moving out two of its partners from Cambridge, Mass., to Palo Alto, Calif.–just in time to avoid the Boston winter.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 22, 2010 at 4:00 am PT
It’s Tumblr meets Amazon! Svpply is a shopping site for stuff you want your friends to know you own, or at least that you’d like to own. Which could be a very good idea–good enough that several start-ups are taking a crack at it.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT
So let’s say you do want to watch Web video from your couch. Who’s going to find the good stuff for you? A new start-up says it can–by getting you and your friends to do the heavy lifting.
