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...other way is to program TV for the shrinking, but still substantial group of people who don't want TV to change. There remains an audience unwilling to study quantum physics and comparative religion to watch Lost; who do not have a Slingbox stacked on a TiVo on top of an Apple TV; who simply want to turn on a TV set at the end of a long day and watch an uncomplicated damn TV show, in real time, on the hour, the way God intended. (See the 50 best inventions...
...concerns about overflow traffic onto the University’s already crowded wireless network, said Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 at last evening’s UC meeting. Sundquist said that FAS IT would block Internet feeds for students who attempted to use the Slingbox service...
Participating in the pilot program would have cost students $110 for a Slingbox and $55 each month for service, which could have been split among friends and roommates. Some students already use Slingboxes to tap into their home cable service, but individual boxes are more costly than those under Castine’s proposal...
...wife ran some errands downtown on Sunday, I found myself pacing in front of the local Apple store. This is ridiculous. My current "smart" phone is only six months old, capable of sending and receiving email, keeping my calendar, even playing a live television feed through my Slingbox. The last thing I need is a new phone. Yet I found myself drawn to the iPhone. I, like the rest of world, was hopelessly transfixed by the promise of being part of the future of telephony...
...revolution? A potentially huge one. For years, Microsoft and others have tried, and failed, to bring the Net to TV screens with duds like WebTV. But the Venice Project, renamed Joost (as in juiced), is doing the opposite: moving TV to the Internet. And unlike Apple TV, Slingbox and other hardware offerings, Joost requires nothing more than software. For now, it's by invitation only, but by this summer it will be open to the public. You'll download the free Joost software, then use it to watch channels ranging from Lime, a lifestyle station, to National Geographic. And potentially...