LG’s deal with Netflix to put streaming movies on some LG televisions shows that we are entering the AOL era of Internet television. We are going to see a lot of similar announcements from the Consumer Electronics Show next week as TV makers build walled gardens of hand-picked Internet- delivered video content for their high-end sets that resemble the early online services like AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe. We’ll also see more set-top boxes with their own walled gardens, like Vudu. All this may be a necessary way point, ... lire la suite
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That’s why we need the equivalent of HTML and the Web browser for television. We need a standard publishing format that will let anyone create video content that can be found and viewed by any set. The format really needs only to be a variation on standard HTML, combined with a bit of Flash and other video formats. I’m not saying that TVs today should just ship with a browser. The experience for most users will, in fact, be too much of a pain for a few years. But we know that garden walls don’t last. So TVs, even now, need to be like the second generation of AOL: a collection of easy-to-use content, with a browser to let people experience the rest of the Web too.
In 1987, General Electric sold its television business to Thomson, allowing the French company to continue to use the GE brand on TVs. That license expired in 2004, and now G.E. is getting back into the TV business — at least halfway. For all the talk about openness, neither NBC nor the GE-Tatung venture actually intend to build a truly open environment where any television can pull down any video on the Web. (I still believe that something akin to a Web browser for television is exactly what people need.)
This is actually pretty shocking, guys. Sony’s rumored to be pulling the plug on all rear-projection TVs and devoting all production to LCDs. As owners of the XBR2 and XBR5 series, we can fully understand Sony’s move here. After all, they’re kickin’ ass! This isn’t confirmed yet, but a company spokesperson supposedly said, "we are moving our resources more toward LCD TV, because that’s what people really want." If you’ve got a pending order for a KDSZ70XBR5 it looks as if that order will never be filled and will be cancelled. Additionally, orders for the KDF46E3000 and KDS60A3000 models aren’t guaranteed either. We’d say get to it if you really want one of those, but let’s not kid ourselves. Pickup an XBR4 or XBR5 LCD and enjoy it!
If you haven’t noticed yet, the browser becomes more and more like the desktop. You are still restrained by the same origin policies (SOP) but there are always ways to hack back and get your way though. This post is not about exploits, as some of you may assume based on my introduction. This post is more about how to use the browser as a platform for executing attack scripts, system commands, low level system calls, etc, etc, etc.
Samsung announced a deal with USAToday.com to deliver news and local weather information direct to your TV. “Weather is the most popular feature (in trials),” says a Samsung spokesperson. Separately, Sharp announced it would pipe selected internet content directly to its Aquos TVs, including local weather and Traffic.com updates. NBC will be [...]
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Bonjour, bonjour a tous un probleme est intervenu dans mon naviguateur orange.j'ai selectionne un flux rss et depuis quand je veux me connecte a orange le texte browser.exe a cesse de fonctionne s'affiche si quelqu'un pourrait m'aider ce serai gentil merci a tous Configuration: Windows Vista Internet Explorer 7.0
How would it be if, "Internet Explorer has built-in browser history on cloud feature.." It was all fine before 2-3 years when people had just one machine, life was simple.. Browser was able to remember browsing history, login information locally on that machine. (Though, formatting machine and browsing on a newly setup browser was a pain..) But now, life is not so easy.. Having three machines at work, one roaming laptop and home desktop.. almost everybody is surrounded by various machines, but the individual is still same. At the same time, Web 2.0 wave has increased usage of internet/browser exponentially. Now, I dont want to waste time remembering the URLs.. even sometimes I dont look at the address-bar in browser (I just want to focus on the content.. Hyperlink technology is simply great!!) so, I am not sure which websites I am surfing. The toolbar I just mentioned doesnt work on Firefox.. For Firefox 3.0 (which is still in beta) they have got a browser extension (which you need to install from mozilla lab.. again, not in-built solution) which lets you create an account for saving your browsing history (I think they just stores the URL that you visit) · Google Browser Sync This has also got the same problem, it takes 100% CPU (that too on Normal priority thread is really a bad thing! They should implement it on low/idle priority thread, but anyways..), it can sync your browsers history.. Again, not in-built solution.. and it works only on Firefox browser..