by Gary Sims, 2 months ago

I took delivery of my new SmartStick, from American company FAVI Entertainment, just a few days ago and to be honest I was expecting to see yet another run-of-the-mill Android mini computer that plugs into the HDMI port on your…

by David Gonzales, 2 months ago

There have been more and more remote control apps coming out for the Android platform as of late, and it should come as no surprise as the hardware inside most or all devices these days…

by Gary Sims, 3 months ago

Western Digital is well known for its hard drives, but it also manufactures a few other things like networking equipment and media players. It current range of “WD TV” media players are custom designs with support for…

by Gary Sims, 3 months ago

There are times when you see an advert for a device and you think, “don’t know, might be useful, not sure.” And that is that, the moment has gone. That is how I generally felt…

by David Gilson, 3 months ago

When the HTC G1 appeared in 2008, there was no suggesting that Android could run anything but a phone. Since then, Android has dominated the smartphone market and begun to appear on other types of…

by Robert Triggs, 4 months ago

Running Android on your living room TV isn’t just a novelty enjoyed by hardware hackers these days, it’s becoming big business. Over the past year, loads of budding new development companies have popped up, offering…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 4 months ago

CES 2013 might have officially ended about four days ago, but we’re not quite ready to wrap up our coverage from the Las Vegas ground. Naturally, there isn’t anything still going on there, but you…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 4 months ago

They might have not been the absolute stars of the show at CES 2013, but the new line-up of Google TV powered products did turn some heads, so it would have been a terrible shame…

by Chris Smith, 4 months ago

Android 4.2 has been announced for quite a while now, but it’s yet to be available, at least officially, on the smartphones and tablets that are already running Android 4.1.x – and I’m obviously not…

by Stefan Constantinescu, 4 months ago

The Consumer Electronics Show is going to kick off in less than a week, and it’s going to make us cry. Our feet are going to hurt, our eyes are going to bleed, and our…

by Varun Raj, 5 months ago

There are many solutions for turning your so called idiot box into a SmartTV. However, very rarely do we see a way to turn the TV into a video conferencing solution. WISE aims to make…

by Gary Sims, 5 months ago

A security company known as ReVuln has created a video demonstrating that it can hack and root Samsung’s Smart TV range including the Samsung TV LED 3D. The video shows how a zero-day vulnerability in the…

by Andi Sykes, 5 months ago

Chinese start-up Xiaomi has hit the headlines a bit over the past few months with the launch of the quad-core M2 and, most recently, their Android set-top box. Now, according to unnamed sources, Xiaomi is…

by Nicholas Moore, 5 months ago

Recent rumors suggest that Microsoft is looking to take on Google and Apple TV with a set top box of their own known as Xbox TV. Sources close to the company seem to believe that…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 7 months ago

Despite looking very promising about two years ago, when it was first released, the Google TV Smart TV platform suffered terribly due to staggered launches of compatible devices, high pricing, and the lack of partnerships…