Google TV, Roku, XBox, BluRay, even direct PC connections make the jump technologically easy.
NPR, CBS, Direct PC Internet and dozens of other services went down.
It's a risky move for Dell , which pioneered the direct-sales PC business and has made the strategy its hallmark.
While it has stumbled in the past in areas like customer service and never gained a foothold selling computers to medium and large businesses, Gateway has withstood the collapse of most of its direct-selling PC counterparts.
It also acquired Insight Direct USA's PC Wholesale unit, which distributes end-of-life and refurbished IT products.
We ran the Jambox through a gauntlet of tests, ranging from smartphone Pandora sessions all the way through movies, games and carefully ripped lossless audio pulled direct from a discrete PC sound card, and the verdict was clear: the Jambox isn't a magical treasure chest of audiophile bliss, but it is a pretty potent portable speaker that sounds great.
And lower PC shipments is a direct assault on the bottom line at Microsoft, which rings the cash register with every PC sale.
Along with seamlessly running all PC applications consumers can now direct and drive all of their content from any device through the IN Media tablet PC including their high definition television.
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The move will bring the x86 processor architecture that dominates the PC and server business into direct competition with the ARM-based designs that now dominate the smart phone and tablet industry.
January 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from something that transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine that allowed direct ordering over broadband.
The application costs nothing and works with around 30 games thus far (pre-loaded in the beta as "profiles") -- NVIDIA sees the software not as a tool for direct monetization, but as a means to grow the accessibility of PC gaming.
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