Monday, January 7, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // January 7, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 7, 2013

Roku Now Has 700 Channels, Including Time Warner Cable; Also Has 14 TV Manufacturers Compatible With Its Streaming Stick

Roku is announcing at CES today a significant milestone both in the amount of content and the number of devices that are compatible with its USB-sized streaming... read more

LEGO Mindstorms EV3: The Better, Faster, Stronger Generation Of Robotic Programming

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company's consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation.... read more

Canon Debuts New Powershot Series That Paves The Way For Compact Cameras

Canon unveiled a host of new Powershot cameras at CES 2012, including the diminutive new Powershot N, a camera with lots of personality packed into an extremely... read more

Goodbye Annoying Clips: Fitbit Reveals The $99 Flex Activity Tracking Wristband

If there's one issue that seems to crop up often with Fitbit's eponymous line of fitness trackers, it's that they can be a little tough to keep track of -- our... read more

Hands-On With The Apex HD+ Goggles: Simple Video Streaming For Snowbunnies

Now I'm hardly what you'd call an athlete, but I've often been sucked into a sport because of some of the gadgets involved (don't ask me how many fitness... read more

Nvidia Outs Next-Gen Tegra 4 Quad-Core A15 LTE-Enabled Mobile Chip; Also Unboxes 'Project Shield': Open Gaming Handheld That Supports Android, PC Titles

Nvidia has outed its next-gen Tegra 4 mobile CPU at CES. As expected, the chip packs 72 GPU cores, offering a 6x bump on the Tegra 3's graphics processing... read more

As Demand For Tablets, Smartphones And Connected Screens Soars, Pure Play Devices Under Threat, Says Accenture

Attention dumbphones, point-and-shoot cameras and music players: sorry to tell you this, but it looks like your days may be numbered. According to a new survey... read more

Netflix Inks Exclusive U.S. Online Rights To Warner Bros 2012-13 Drama Shows Including Revolution, The Following And The West Wing

The latest skirmish in the ongoing battle between pay-TV and over-the-top providers to woo customers by building the most alluring content ecosystems has been... read more

Insta-Opportunism: Tadaa Sees 500K New Users, 3M Images Ported, Post-Instagram ToS Fall Out

One company's stumble is another company's opportunity. And so it should be no surprise to see competing photo-sharing sites attempt to benefit from the very... read more

Sensus Case Adds Back And Side Touch Controls To The iPhone

The Sensus Case is at CES 2013, and it brings touch controls to the iPhone that go way beyond the screen. Touch-sensitive panels on the back (which can detect... read more

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