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The new Apple TV The new Apple TV may be pint sized with just 1/4 the size of the old Apple TV, it does pack a mighty  punch. The new Apple TV  has HDMI, Ethernet, optical audio, and USB plugs around back, and of course 802.11n for the cable-averse and retails at $99 and will stream rental movies directly from iTunes, or beam videos from your own computer, without  local storage. Apple is offering [...]

Apple's new releases Apple’s media event on Wednesday was full of shiny gadgets and software releases. We will cover the releases individually, nevertheless, here are the highlights Apple TV Okay – the rumors has got it wrong, the moniker has not changed to Apple iTv, but, Apple TV now beams streaming-only content with a 1/4 size of the old device. The new Apple TV will pack built-in [...]

Facebook on Palm OS Palm has released Facebook for Palm webOS 1.3, the release includes dozens of new features and enhancements, many of which were prompted or refined based on the user feedback. Highlights include selectable feeds, comments in the feed, photo tagging, landscape mode, clearing multiple notifications at once, and lots of performance enhancements. We are impressed with the importance [...]

Twitter Twitter is temporarily disabling the new “Who to Follow” feature. Twitter launched  “Who to Follow” few weeks ago as a way to give Twitter users suggestions for other users to follow. Among other factors suggestions are based on things like, the people you follow, the people they follow and other factors. “We’ve temporarily turned off the “Who To Follow” feature and [...]

Palm webOS Palm has  announced the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0 – a final release should not be far –  to the webOS developers participating in Palm’s early access program, those  developers are getting a preview of the next version of Palm platform. Read on to find out more about the features in the new SDK. Stacks Palm’s groundbreaking card metaphor made multi-tasking [...]

Source - Engadget Soon after the rumors of a YouTube’s video rental service it has emerged that the day may not be too far before Apple starts offering streaming video through iTunes soon. iTunes’ customer survey seems to hint towards this “Titles are available to watch instantly” is listed among the survey questions which will be a refreshing change from the current method [...]

Twitter Twitter has announced a new beta service called Site Streams a new feature on the Streaming API. The new functionality allows mobile push services  to immediately display new tweets, mentions and other data as soon as they come in without having to deal with Twitter’s REST API rate limits. “The initial version delivers events created by, or directed to, users that have shared [...]

Radeon AMD has announced that it will  shed the ATI brand name from its line of graphics products. It could make sense to the gamers and graphics enthusiasts who’ve been scratching their heads over different lineups from AMD.  AMD will be rechristening  its consumer graphics products as Radeon and professional graphics products as FirePro. This will bring to an end of a brand name synonymous [...]

Source - majornelson.com According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson  Xbox Live Gold will be more dearer in the UK, US,  Canada, and Mexico from November 1 this year.  A single month will see a rise of 1 GBP, it will be raised to 5.99 GBP  from the current 4.99 GBP per month. “Since launching Xbox LIVE in 2002 we have continually added more content and entertainment experiences for our members, [...]

MySpace MySpace had few weeks ago revamped itself and looked more like Facebook, it is now further sucking up to its once bitter rival by allowing  MySpace users to sync their posts to Facebook, which means  that users on Facebook can see their friends’ MySpace items without leaving Facebook. Apart from updates, users can share their links, photos, videos, music and application installations [...]