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The end of the year is a good time to summarize my favourite open source home automation system LinuxMCE. I’d like to start from the most important thing in my mind – building packages for version 1004 based on Kubuntu 10.04. Finally we have a chance to use modern OS with Long Term Support. That [...]

The end of another year and time for a customary glance back at the 20 most popular posts from 2010. 5 of our top 20 articles cover aspects of the iPad - a device we hadn't even seen this time a year ago. It has undoubtedly been one of the single [...]

Back in 2005 HD TVs were only in 12 percent of households, with just a single percent of people owning more than one. Times have changed.
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“Manufacturers are underselling the Internet features of connected TVs,” says Ross Rubin of the NPD Group, who recently revealed the results of a study detailing the usage of internet connected
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As CES draws nearer, companies are tipping their hands, revealing what exciting new products they've got up their sleeves. LG's latest is exciting indeed.
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The latest LG’s TVs are enough smart thanks to Smart TV feature included LAN connectivity, DLNA support and set of various applications. But what if you have old TV but don’t want to replace it? LG gives a simple and elegant way to turn it into Smart TV as well with its new set-top-box LG [...]

Verizon is going to demonstrate its new Home Monitoring and Control system at CES 2011. it’ll allow to control lighting, thermostats, appliance as well as remotely view security cameras and lock/unlock doors through smartphones or FiOS TV boxes. The system will use Z-Wave technology for home automation, sensors and climate control and wireless IP security [...]

What's this? LG just released PR on this little black box - the ST600 - which bears a striking resemblance to the Apple TV. At just 11cms square the Wi-Fi equipped unit gives any old flat screen DLNA streaming playback as well as a web browser and various other LG apps (any of [...]

GigaOm has posted a short op-ed wondering if Apple TV is nothing more than a Netflix box (and I’ll add: for the Apple user base)? The argument for that conclusion comes from the fact that the new, second generation Apple TV device is most often used to stream Netflix content to their TV — a capability that [...]