Boxee, maker of the free Boxee multimedia-player software platform for PCs and Macs, and the smarts behind D-Link’s recently introduced Boxee Box, has just received $16.5 million more funding. The lead investors of this financing round were Pitango and Softbank, with prior investors General Catalyst, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures also participating.
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Owners of D-Link’s first-generation Boxee Box finally got what they were anxiously waiting for today: Netflix’s video streaming service actually running on their devices. Although it’s still somewhat buggy, DeviceGuru can confirm that the Boxee Box Netflix app does works well enough to browse, select, and watch videos.
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AMD’s long-anticipated competitor to Intel’s popular Atom processor line has quietly begun shipping to device makers. AMD’s initial Embedded G-Series processor consumes less than 9W of power and crams dual 64-bit x86 CPU cores, an ATI Radeon GPU (graphics processing unit), system and DRAM controllers, PCI Express, and HD video interfaces into a single piece of silicon in a package that occupies about half a square inch of board space. Is this the rumored “Atom killer”?
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Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. Bill Kircos, Intel’s director of product- and technology-related public relations efforts, has rounded out the year with 11 technology trend predictions for 2011. Although Kircos admits his list is “a bit slanted toward Intel,” this guest post offers a glimpse of what’s in the trend-setting chipmaker’s near-term crystal ball.
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Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. This guest post from IdentityMine, a specialist in the “user experience” (UX) aspect of software development, predicts eight mobile application trends for 2011.
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