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Meta-Blogging: The Browser Wars

Sports, myp2p.eu and the VideoLAN Media Player

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This post?s author, The Media Patriot, is a fellow consumer who enjoys music and television but condemns DRM. The pseudonym pays homage to the original participants of the Boston Tea Party.

Why Care about WiMAX?

There’s been a lot of WiMAX chatter the last couple of months. For example, the major announcement in May of new financial backers for a US network (Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Google, Intel and Bright House). And yesterday came the much lower-profile, but still highly-important news of the first successful round of WiMAX certifications by the WiMAX Forum. Certification means interoperability, which is critical for any large-scale deployment.

PC Mag: ESPN Ultimate Remote Not All That

PC Mag has spoken: the ESPN Ultimate Remote ain’t all that. Mari was feeling good after a brief device intro at The Cable Show, but my pal (and fellow IU alumn) PJ tested the WiFi remote in an AV environment and has graced it with only 2 out of 5 stars:

No Flip Zone

Boxee: XBMC Reloaded

While the XBMC desktop port continues, a new player (Boxee) is stepping in to create a unified front-end that layers social networking features on top of traditional media extender functionality. For those unfamiliar with XBMC, I’ll go ahead and quote myself:

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