Mac Superbundle deal. Parallels 7 + nine Mac Apps: $49
From 9to5Toys.com:
Nova offers its MacSuperbundle Winter Deal for $49. We are picky about our bundles, but Parallels alone makes this one worth noting. There are some solid extras here as well.
Valued at over $470 if purchased separately, the nine software titles and exciting bonus app in the new 2012 Mac SuperBundle are available for just $49, an 89% savings, [...]
Daily Crunch: Apples & Eggs
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets:
Tim Cook: Apple TV IS Still A Hobby, But I Couldn’t Live Without It
App-maker Moonbot Gets An Oscar Nomination
Full Circle: Boxee Brings OTA HDTV And Basic Cable To The Boxee Box
For many, issues watching YouTube on Apple TV
Owners of the Apple TV set-top box around the world took to Twitter to complain about an unknown issue affecting the device’s ability to stream YouTube clips through the Internet section of the main menu. According to reports, attempting to play any YouTube clip produces this error message:
No content was found. There is a problem [...]
Tim Cook: Apple TV IS Still A Hobby, But I Couldn’t Live Without It
Apple TV is still a hobby. The word comes from Apple’s Chief, Tim Cook who nether-the-less championed the company’s current offering. He stated that Apple sold more than 2.8 million Apple TV units last fiscal year with 1.4 million moved within Q1 2012 (a new record for the device).
“Our Apple TV product is doing quite [...]
Sculley: If anyone is going to change television, it’s going to be Apple (Murdoch agrees, too)
Photo courtesy of BBC
John Sculley, former vice-president and president of PepsiCo and CEO of Apple between 1983 and 1993, is adamant that Apple —not incumbents such as Samsung— is poised to change the first principles of the television experience. Sculley also confessed in an interview with BBC that has not read Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Apple’s late cofounder and CEO. Nevertheless, the executive turned [...]
Imagination details PowerVR Series6 design that could let iPad 3 outshine console graphics
Imagination Technologies, a British-based maker of a mobile graphics and microprocessor chip technology, announced last June its new mobile graphics architecture code-named Rogue. Today, the company shed more light on the first two PowerVR Series6 designs, the G6400 and G6200. According to a press release issued today, we can expect 20 times the performance of current-generation [...]
Nuance launches ‘Dragon TV’ voice-controlled platform ahead of rumored Siri-powered Apple HDTV
Nuance, the speech recognition company currently powering Apple’s Siri in the iPhone 4S, announced (via TechCrunch) it would be dropping a new voice-controlled TV platform known as “Dragon TV.” Apple is —of course— expected to include Siri-like voice capabilities in the rumored Apple branded HDTV, but Dragon TV has beat them to it with a [...]
Daily Mail: Apple to bid on Premier League football content for Apple TV
Reports surfaced tonight claiming Apple wants to stream Premier League football content to its Apple TV service.
The Premier League will consider bids for next season after the rights to screen football games expires at the end of the 2011 to 2012 season.
The Daily Mail reported Jan. 3 that both Apple and Google are interested in purchasing rights to [...]
Apple reportedly planning late-January event in New York, media to be the focus
AllThingsD reported that Apple is planning an event for late January to be held in New York, not in Cupertino or San Francisco, Calif. The event will not be huge nor will it cover any iPad or Apple TV related announcements.
But, for sure, several sources underscored that the event is not related to an upcoming [...]
Apple TV iOS applications now running natively at fullscreen 720p resolution in developer port
We broke the news yesterday that developers Steven Troughton-Smith and the TheMudKip were working on bringing iOS applications to the Apple TV in a native experience. We have been updating with the developer’s progress since our initial report, but now a major leap was achieved: full-screen applications. Troughton-Smith was awesome enough to exclusively pass on [...]