media streamer

Western Digital is making sure its hardware can keep pace in the media streamer arms race, matching recent additions by Microsoft and Roku by issuing updates of its own.

Today the Boxee Box becomes the next media streamer in the US (after the WDTV Live and Live Hub) to add support for

Acer's been mighty busy the past few days, trotting out laptops, desktops, a media streamer<

Roku's line of boxes have come a long way from being used only to stream Netflix, and now the company has announced a plan to take its talents to casual gaming.

The humble MiFi from Novatel has, in various guises for myriad carriers, saved our bacon on repeated occasions at press events, feeding up

Though it could easily be mistaken for a dinosaur egg trapped in some prehistoric block of ice, what you're looking at here is actually a set-top box.

A media streamer, to be specific.

We heard it was in development just two days ago and now we've got a first glimpse at Apple's AirPlay media streamer working a Windows PC.

2010 may arguably be the year of the tablet, but darn if media streamers aren't breathing down their neck.

This year, we've seen an explosion in the quantity and quality of media streamer options, with even the mighty Google buying in via its Google TV solution.

It's not like anyone could predict the media streamer war that would erupt in 2010, but it looks like Western Digital's taking things pretty seriously.

Your Apple TVs and your Google TVs hold a lot of potential, but their limited access to content freely available to any 'ol PC and Mac is wh