Rather, he set a strategic target for Apple to be the digital hub for consumers.
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Other, mainly rural, areas will receive public funds to build a "digital hub" with a fibre optic internet connection.
Why would a perfectly healthy, full-price online retailer slap steep discounts on products in the middle of their main digital hub?
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The digital hub will see BT Sport broadcast 38 Barclays Premier League live games a season for three years from August 2013.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) designed its hot new Xbox videogame player to grow into a similar multifunctional digital hub.
Dr Philip Alford, director of the Digital Hub in the School of Tourism at Bournemouth University, told the BBC that the size of the brand made a big difference to the effectiveness of paid searches.
Nowhere else can you browse a selection of more than 82, 000 paper books, walk over to Area-e, our new digital hub, where you test drive a variety of e-Reading devices, and then search for your next favorite book in our e-Bookstore.
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Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
Apple has also made a lot of noise about the concept of the "digital entertainment hub, " where its computers become central to serving up various types of digital entertainment, whether music or video.
Ironically, this long heralded digital entertainment hub may turn out to be not a PC or dedicated device, but one of the new generation of games consoles.
With this you can watch and listen or surf the web from anywhere in the house thanks to a digital media hub that feeds content to appliances in almost every room.
Seriously though, what a coup would that be if Microsoft swooped in to make the Xbox 360 the premier digital content hub -- with or without HD DVD -- right underneath Sony's nose at the eve of their PlayStation 3 launch?
It's on ThinkSecret, which means, of course, that we can't verify the information or its source, but now the rumor on top of the pile for things we might see at Macworld in January is that the Mac mini will be given a second life as a Front Row 2.0-bearing digital media hub complete with DVR features.
The computer as digital home entertainment hub is the tech world's endless come-on, but it has always seemed the kind of idea that only a crash-tolerant geek could embrace.
With 10 shows in 7 countries, their speakers, workshops, and exhibits, make Ad Tech is a hub for digital marketers worldwide.
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As a result, Louisiana is also now a hub for digital media and technology, and has attracted other permanent, entertainment-industry projects, such as Pixomondo, EA Sports, Pixel Magic and Gameloft.
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And iCloud. 10 years ago they had insight that PC would be hub for your digital life.
"Google wants to become the hub of your digital experience, " says Edwards.
In recent months, the company has been rallying publishers around the idea of a Google-operated digital newsstand, a centralized hub for news from publishers that would be available on Android devices.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the development spectrum, Sony previewed its next generation gaming station, the PS4, and presented it as their own central hub for all things digital, presenting a new approach that includes social media, game streaming, video streaming and second screen experiences all wrapped into one convenient package.
Can Twitter score social media gold with its ambitious plan to team up with NBCUniversal and serve as a hub for an expected torrent of digital communications about the Summer Olympics?
And that pair of DVI-D inputs accompanied by DisplayPort, VGA, composite, component, and HDMI 1.3 jack means that this beast is meant for much more than just sourcing spreadsheets and pie charts. 4x USB slots and an integrated 8-in-1 card reader rounds out what's destined to become an all-purpose hub at the center of your digital life.
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The three-day trade show includes 1, 500 exhibitors and more than 500 authors, plus a digital book zone that will no-doubt be a popular hub for readers wondering about iPad and the future of print media.
"Social media is just how people interact now, " said Taulbee Jackson, CEO of Raidious, the digital marketing agency that the Super Bowl's host committee tapped to manage the communications hub.
To bring Bazooka into the digital age, Topps Co. has now rebooted the brand, launching Bazooka TV Monday as its hub for web content catered to click-happy children.
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