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Can Control4 Become the Home OS?

Control4, developer of affordable home control systems, has proclaimed its intentions of being the operating system (OS) of the home -- but can it succeed where others have failed?

TV for the ADD Generation

No Unlimited Data Plan for Canadian iPhones

DivX To Support The MKV Video Format

Good news web video fans. Hot off the presses Doom9?s forums, we learn that the upcoming release of DivX 7 is going to support the Matroska video format! Now I know that many of you are probably asking yourself Matroskwho?, but believe me when I tell you that this is a big deal for both DivX and Matroska fans.

Track Stock Portfolio via Home Theater PC

You?ve had a long day at work, come home and want to see how your stocks and the market have been doing. Okay, maybe you don?t want to know at the moment given the current market conditions but bear with me? You sit down on you couch, fire up the HTPC TV and click on Your Stocks Plugin from the HTPC menu. A snapshot of your selected stocks and indexes for the day is provided right from the 10-foot interface using a new plugin for the SageTV HTPC software.

Google Quietly Intros Media Server Gadget

Google’s quietly introduced a (Windows-only) media server gadget:

Google Media server is about exposing content from your local compute(s) via UPnP protocol for devices on your home network. Google desktop is looking for content on you computer and network (if it is configured to do so). Google Media server uses Google desktop index.

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