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Apple CEO Tim Cook drops additional hints at revolutionary television set

When Tim Cook hints at something, the speculation begins… Per an interview with NBC’s Rock Center, Apple CEO Tim Cook has rekindled speculation that his company plans to build a full-fledged television set in the near future, with comments disparaging current television sets as outdated pieces of technology. During the interview, the CEO was asked […]

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Apple patent allows potential automatic skipping of commercials for radio, television devices

This could be interesting. Per the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that allows users to skip unwanted audio and video broadcast segments such as commercials with on-device content like songs, podcasts or other media, possibly hinting at technology headed to the battle for the living room. Apple’s […]

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ABC, CBS to have iPad-compatible content ready for iPad launch

Per a Wall Street Journal report, the ABC and CBS television networks are ready to offer iPad-compatible content prepared in time for the device’s launch on Saturday. Both CBS and Walt Disney’s ABC have planned for episodes of their TV shows to be viewable on Apple’s forthcoming iPad in time for its Saturday launch. Streaming […]

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Apple Legal Department Asks Microsoft to Stop Airing “Laptop Hunter” Ads

In what may be considered a triumph depending on which side you’re on, Apple has apparently responded to Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunter” series of television commercials. Per Ars Technica, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner was quoted as stating at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference on Wednesday that “two weeks ago we got a call from […]

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Software

Elgato Releases EyeTV 3.1.2 Update

Late Sunday, Elgato Systems released version 3.1.1 of its EyeTV software application, which finds and tracks all television programming you want to see and allows users to pause live television and save content to file. The new version, which can be found here (and can also be found through EyeTV 3.0’s update feature), adds the […]