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Dreamcast's next target: Set-top boxes
News Amid reports that Sega will stop selling Dreamcast as a standalone gaming console, the company is finalising plans to incorporate its technology into other devices such as next-generation set-top boxes.
[January 24, 2001, 8:20]
News Burst: PowerChannel to give away two million set-top boxes
News Two million UK consumers will be given free set-top boxes to surf the Internet by PowerChannel over the next three years, in return for submitting details of their shopping habits, the company said Friday.
[October 30, 2000, 10:34]
Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide
News Freebox hopes to start distributing boxes to UK households before Christmas 2000. A UK company claims it will bridge the digital divide in its ambitious plan to provide every house in Britain with a free set-top box to access digital television...
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
ONdigital joins war for 'free' set-top boxes
News The move will be seen as a direct challenge to rival digital provider BSkyB, which announced free boxes from the beginning of June. Previously ONdigital subscribers could only get free set-top boxes when they bought goods worth £199.
[May 25, 1999, 17:05]
Mobile boom forces BT to stop building call boxes
News A steep drop in revenue has forced BT to stop installing new public telephone boxes around the UK, the company announced Sunday. BT Payphones, a subsidiary of BT, lost 37 percent of revenue in the last two years and blames the decline on increased...
[January 29, 2001, 8:38]
BBC iPlayer heads to set-top boxes
News Having conquered the PC world with one million requests per day, the BBC's iPlayer could soon be coming to set-top boxes. An agreement announced on Thursday between the BBC, Channel 4 and BT will see the threesome working on a platform to carry on...
[December 12, 2008, 13:21]
Ireland kicks off wireless 'black boxes' for cars
News Working with technology and service providers Safety Intelligence Systems (SIS) and IBM, the project is to allow airline-style "black boxes" embedded in automobiles to instantly transmit crash data to a centralised database, allowing emergency...
[November 6, 2003, 15:50]
PowerChannel's Internet boxes to ship December
News As reported by ZDNet News last month, PowerChannel Europe plans to distribute two million set-top boxes. Media group Granada is backing PowerChannel, and the boxes will be distributed through its Box Clever chain of retail stores, starting in...
[November 15, 2000, 6:18]
Dock Boxes Harbor Webcams
Downloads Display scenic live webcams from harbors all over the World provided by TrionicCorp.com maker of Dock Boxes and other marine products including Buoys, Marine and Rv Holding tanks, Spill Kits, Solar Lights, Drive on Docking, Recycling Boxes, Spill...
[March 9, 2008, 6:00]
Ntl puts broadband on set-top boxes
News Engineers have now found a way to work around the problem by running broadband services through the subscribers' existing set-top boxes. The boxes were supplied by Pace Micro and already have broadband cable-modems installed, ntl said.
[June 28, 2001, 17:06]
MIPS speeds broadband set-top boxes
News MIPS Technologies has given high-tech set-top boxes a boost with a new 64bit microprocessor design called MIPS64 5Kf, announced at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, California this week. The FPU, along with other optimisations, makes the...
[June 13, 2001, 14:02]
Adobe brings Flash to TVs, set-top boxes
News The company will on Monday announce the latest version of its Flash multimedia platform that will essentially put its technology in internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other digital home devices.
[April 20, 2009, 9:52]
Set top boxes poised to dethrone the PC in Xmas rush
News The boxes, which are similar to set-top boxes sold by Bush for £79.99 (inc VAT), will allow users to surf the Net on their television set, but unlike digital set-top boxes from companies like Sky, OnDigital and Freebox will not support digital...
[October 31, 2000, 10:31]
Rockwell/Brooktree merger could drive set-top boxes
News My guess is that they will integrate video and communications into dedicated technology for set-top boxes. "I think Rockwell will bring a lot of money and credibility in blue-chip businesses," said Brett Butcher, managing director of Datapath Ltd.a...
[July 11, 1996, 10:03]
ONdigital joins war for 'free' set-top boxes
Talkback i was told that ondigital had gone bust years ago isent back ther box and never got any money back over £169 was owed to me and now thay join war
[October 1, 2005, 22:41]
BT turns phone boxes into base stations
News BT has come up with some novel ways of making money as it faces mounting pressure to dissolve some of its huge debt -- renting out its telephone boxes and possibly selling off its famous BT vans. The first idea involves turning telephone boxes into...
[April 12, 2001, 14:09]
Ireland kicks off wireless 'black boxes' for cars
Talkback Don't know whether to laugh or cry over this. The Irish and Road Safety - oximoron I think the phrase is. They don't MOT cars and didn't they talk about changing the side of the road they drive on? First 3 months would be lorries and then the rest...
[November 7, 2003, 16:04]
101 Ebook Covers and Software Boxes
Downloads If your an e-book author you need to have an e-book cover to give your customers a visual image of your product. With this software you have 101 e-book covers to choose from and they can be easily edited in your image editing software.
[July 31, 2001, 2:11]
IDC: Virtual servers set to overtake physical boxes
News IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time this year, according to a new report from IDC. The research company found that the number of physical servers shipped in 2008 fell by a...
[May 15, 2009, 16:02]
Sun to unveil stackable data-centre boxes
News Giving a new meaning to the term "portable computer", Sun plans to sell a working data centre packaged in a stackable shipping container. On Tuesday, the company plans to unveil "Project Blackbox", which tucks several racks of computing gear, along...
[October 17, 2006, 10:30]
