Google Developing Home Entertainment System

Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company’s own brand, according to people briefed on the company’s plans.

AllThingsD Covers the Tech of Super Bowl XLVI (And the Ads, the Game and Madonna)

Ina Fried of AllThingsD liveblogged the game, the commercials, the tech and more.
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Get Ready for Lots of Streaming Arianna With HuffPost Video Network

The latest entrant in the video-newspaper category comes from none other than Huffington Post, which unveiled plans to stream 16 hours of live video on its site daily.
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RealNetworks Sells Video Codec and a Bunch of Patents to Intel for $120 Million

RealNetworks said on Thursday that it has sold a big chunk of it patent portfolio and its next-generation video codec to Intel for $120 million in cash. The Seattle company said it retains the rights to use the technology, so it doesn’t see an impact on its operating plans.

Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says Amazon Is Coming

Reed Hastings’s numbers are much better than Wall Street expected. But he warns that he won’t turn a profit in 2012.
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There Better Be Some Cool Stuff at CES, Because CE Holiday Sales Data Bytes!

Camcorders and MP3 players go splat!
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Disney and Comcast Link Up for Another 10 Years

Comcast subscribers get more programming, in more places — and they’ll pay more, too.
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Roku to Launch Cordless Streaming Stick for TVs

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.
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Boxee to Release Last Software Update for PCs

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.
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NBC Will Stream Super Bowl Broadcast Live

A first for pro football: It will put its biggest game of the year on the Web, live, for free. The NFL says February’s NBC broadcast will also be available on Verizon phones; NBC already streams its Sunday night games on the Web. The move parallels other broadcasters’ moves to put some of their big games on the Web, most notably CBS’s broadcast of the March Madness tournament.

Pandora Beats the Street, Which Yawns

Amazon’s Tablet Test Starts Now