Apple may well unveil a set-top box bearing the name “iTV” at this week’s Macworld Conference and Expo. However, Netgear beat Apple to the punch with its Sunday debut of a new hardware media receiver and a content partnership with BitTorrent.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Netgear Monday announced its Digital Entertainer HD media receiver, along with an ongoing collaboration and agreement with peer-assisted digital content delivery platform BitTorrent, to promote video downloads.
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January 9th, 2007
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took center stage at International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Sunday night in Las Vegas, kicking off the computer industry’s largest annual convention with a keynote speech that described what he called the “Digital Decade.”
Gates was quick to cite plenty of stats to back up his assertions: more than 2 billion digital photos were taken last year; 65 percent of homes are using digital cameras; more than 40 percent of U.S. homes have multiple PCs; and a young generation spends more time on a PC than they do watching television.
“We see portable devices proliferating, a higher and higher part of the growing PC market. We see the connections, both through WiFi and 3G, getting to the point where you can get information wherever you want to go — and we’re just scratching the surface,” Gates told his listeners.
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January 9th, 2007
