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• Blu-ray Players for $300 or Less As their prices fall, Blu-ray Disc players add streaming media capabilities to their already state-of-the-art high-definition image quality.
• Top 8 Holiday How-Tos Home for the holidays? Play with your new HDTV, iPhone, digital camera, laptop and other gear and software by using some of our favorite DIY instructions.
• Windows 7 All-in-One PCs: Big Touchscreens for All Budgets Many of these stylish big-screen all-in-one PCs have built-in Blu-ray drives and double as Media Center HDTVs. Some also provide multitouch displays, which let you use two fingers to pinch, push, rotate, and scroll items on screen.
• Will Lala Power Web-Based iTunes? Integrating new acquisition Lala into iTunes offers some possibilities but also some challenges.
• What Apple's Lala Acquisition May Mean for iTunes The streaming media site and the creative people behind it could change Apple's approach to music -- if Apple allows it.
• Clicker Staging Web TV Takeover, Unites With Boxee Clicker wants to be liberated from the desktop, and has partnered with set-top box software startup Boxee as its first step.
• Cisco's FlipShare TV Lets You Watch Your Videos on TV Streaming box aims to make viewing video on your television a simple affair, but the price is a bit steep.
• Google's Paid YouTube TV Would be Better Than iTunes Streaming isn't a deterrent to video distribution once the Internet is everywhere -- and that's Google's plan.
• iPhone Owners Gobble Up Online Media According to a new study, iPhone owners are more likely to purchase online media — such as on-demand TV on their phones — than average consumers.
• Can Video-Streaming Site Joost Avoid Going Off the Air? Video streaming Website Joost will sell most of its assets to Adconion in a bid to stay alive
• Roku HD-XR Excels at Streaming Media to Your TV Compact, affordable media player delivers Netflix, Amazon, and other Internet media services over wired or 802.11n wireless--and does it well.
• Roku SD: Low-Cost, Low-Res Media Streaming If you can live with its lower resolution and limited wireless networking features, this media streamer is a respectable low-cost choice.
• Spotify Lands App for Symbian Phones Music streaming service Spotify is headed for phones running the Sybian mobile operating sytem.
• Microsoft's Silverlight Vision Silverlight will "optimize everywhere," Microsoft tells developers conference.
• Cloud Engines Updates Pogoplug Media Sharing Device The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet.
• Remove Internet TV from Your Windows Media Center Channel Guide Windows 7 offers the best Media Center experience yet, but what if you don't want those Internet "channels" cluttering up your program guide?
• Adobe Unveils Public Betas for Flash Player 10.1, AIR 2.0 This just in: Adobe Labs has some new toys up for grabs.
• In-Flight Entertainment on a Netbook Here's how to make the most of a low-powered PC, be it a netbook or humbly equipped business machine.
• Baidu Deal May be First Step in Linking to Licensed Music UPDATE: Baidu did not fully confirm a statement by music provider Qtrax that it will indeed start linking to licensed music downloads.
• Western Digital WD TV Mini Multimedia Player The WD TV Mini is a great little travel player for your multimedia files.
• Archos 5 Internet Tablet This Android-powered player crams a ton of Internet and multimedia features into its slim frame, but it still needs some refinement.
• Top Storage Devices in the PC World 100 We saw all kinds of roomy and speedy drives this year. Here are our top picks.
• Netflix Movie Streaming Comes To PlayStation 3 Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles will be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix.
• Surprise: McCain Biggest Beneficiary of Telco/ISP Lobby Money The most powerful opponent of new net neutrality rules also happens to be the biggest beneficiary of campaign contributions from big ISPs and their lobbyists, a new report says.
• LaCie LaCinema Rugged HD Multimedia Player It's one of the pricier hard-drive-based portable digital media adapters on the market, but it's also one of the more capable.