Like Rokus existing channels, some of these first new ones offer video pure and simple, including Twit.TV and Revision. [ad] Today it announced the latest step in its evolution into a more versatile device: a “channel store” of optional video sources for users to add any or all of them to your box through a [...]

Advanced Micro Devices stock was upgraded Thursday by Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman, citing a solid product road map and debt restructuring efforts. [ad] AMD was trading above $7 midday on Thursday, high above the $3.50 (approximate) lows seen back in July of this year. Freedman said in a research note Thursday that he is [...]

We’ve already had some time with the new Xbox Live Dashboard update, but now we have an official release date. The new firmware, which will bring Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm to the console, will be available for download this Tuesday, November 17. [ad] In addition to these services, Microsoft will be rolling out Zune Video, [...]

Do you like the idea of checking status updates on a 50-inch LCD in the middle of Uncharted 2 sessions? Social media addicts, the next PS3 update just might be for you. Hidden photos on Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Web site, that have since been taken down, point to a definitive and familiar blue logo [...]

Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers’ abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go. [ad] And on Tuesday, they’re taking the veil of secrecy off Go, releasing what they’ve built so far and inviting others to join the newly open-source [...]

There seems to be quite a bit brewing over at Apple in the TV stakes just now. [ad] First of all we have got wind of a rumour that movie rentals are set to land on iTunes. The leak comes via a screenshot apparently taken by an Apple engineer currently working on the service. Making [...]

Google Wave, which began rolling out to 100,000 new users one month ago, has thrown a lot of people for a loop, rocking even some tech-savvy folks back on their heels. [ad] eWEEK has noted some of the gripes, including the multiuser editing, which enables several users to edit a document at the same time. [...]

[ad] Running a jailbroken iPhone has its risks, as a Dutch hacker has demonstrated. Specifically, he used a bit of port scanning to find jailbroken phones with SSH running in his native Netherlands. From there, he sent unsuspecting users a message that reads, “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and [...]

Ever since Documents to Go came out on iPhone–both the standard version and with Microsoft Exchange Attachments–the publisher has been keeping our interest with promises of a version that could edit Excel documents and create new ones in addition to just viewing them. [ad] That version, Documents to Go 2.0, is now here. The update [...]

[ad] Google is getting ready to roll out Google Wave, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others [...]