Gillmor Gang: Christmas in July
The Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor – celebrate Google’s gift to StreamTV. ChromeCast is cheap, small, simple, and extensible, just in time to kickoff the run...
View ArticleThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Nexus 7, Cheap iPhone 4s, And Chromecast
Does the high-res Nexus 7 beat out the iPad mini? Why has Apple’s average selling price gone down? Is Google’s new Chromecast dongle an Apple TV/Airplay killer? We discuss all this and more on this...
View ArticleGoogle’s Chromecast No Longer Comes With Free Netflix Because Demand Got Too...
In what is a solid example of the best sort of problem to have, Google’s just-announced Chromecast video streaming dongle is already proving too damned popular for its own good. At yesterday’s debut,...
View ArticleGoogle Suggests Web-TV Thingies You Can Buy Instead of Google’s Sold-Out...
Google has not only sold out of Netflix giveaways to bundle with its Chromecast device, but it doesn’t have any Chromecasts to sell right now, period. If you place an order on Google’s site, you’ll be...
View ArticleGoogle’s Answer to the Great Chromecast/Netflix Giveaway Mystery: There’s No...
Why did Google kill its Chromecast/Netflix promotion a day after it launched? It didn’t, exactly. And neither did Netflix. Here’s a new statement from Google on the end of the deal, which gave...
View ArticleGoogle Ends Netflix Chromecast Promotion
A day after announcing a promotion that gave Chromecast buyers three free months of Netflix, Google has pulled the plug on the offer. Google told the Los Angeles Times that it quashed the giveaway “due...
View ArticleAll of These Google Chromecast Ads Are Awesome
Lots of smart people I know are very, very excited about Chromecast, Google’s new TV-streaming gadget. I think it’s pretty cool, too. But only as an iterative step: Maybe I’m not smart enough to figure...
View ArticleGoogle’s Chromecast Lets You Watch TV on the Web on Your TV. Guess Who...
One of the cool features of Google’s new Chromecast device: It lets users move whatever they can see on their computer’s Chrome Web browser onto their TVs. One group of people who might not think...
View ArticleGoogle’s Chromecast Offers Another Way to Get Content From Mobile to TV
Google on Wednesday announced plans for Chromecast, which the company says is an easier way to get video and other content from a mobile device to a television. The approach is centered around a...
View ArticleThat Apple TV Refresh Is Coming Next Week
Nope, Apple didn’t show off new Apple TV hardware yesterday. And Apple didn’t talk about new software for its Web video box, either. But it’s still coming. People familiar with the company’s plans said...
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