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New Apple TV sales to hit million-unit mark this week

by Michael Rose (Dec 21st, 2010)

In a brief press release this morning, Apple announced that it expects the iOS-based Apple TV to pass the one million mark in units sold sometime later this week. The release also notes that iTunes users are renting/purchasing TV episodes and movies by the truckload (400,000 and 150,000 per day, ...

Apple TV doubles Roku sales

by Michael Gray (Dec 20th, 2010)

Roku is a brand of digital video players, a member of the growing category of consumer electronics known as internet television. These devices access video and media content on the internet and stream that content directly to your living room. Internet television content includes services like ...

Apple sells 250k Apple TVs in six weeks

by Keith M (Oct 19th, 2010)

While Apple TV sales were apparently not published in Apple's quarterly earnings release, during the much-ballyhooed investor conference call yesterday, Steve Jobs noted that as many as 250,000 Apple TVs have been sold since its debut last month. To put that number into perspective, in the first ...

Roku cuts price of media players in possible anticipation of new Apple TV

by Mel Martin (Aug 31st, 2010)

Maybe it's coincidence, but probably not. On the eve of a rumored announcement of an updated US $99.00 Apple TV, Roku has cut the price of its media players. The standard definition model has been slashed $20 to $59.99, and the high definition model has been trimmed by $30 to $99.99. The Roku ...

Vimeo embeds now working on iPad, iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 17th, 2010)

[Note: While most videos on Vimeo.com would play back on iDevices prior to this update if watched on the Vimeo site, the new 'Universal Player' embed code should allow publishers and website developers to include compatible embeds on their sites. Vimeo does not provide mobile versions of every ...