He also predicted Apple will add movie rentals to its iTunes service and update its Apple TV set top box offering.
Amazon has been dabbling in this space for years with its Gold Box offering and started to ramp it up a bit this year.
Even though Wal-Mart has become a major retailer of Apple products, it has chosen not to go with Apple TV as its primary set top box offering.
The project has evolved a long way, from XBMC spinoff with a focus on support for locally stored and streaming video, then moving to a set-top box, offering OTA live TV viewing, and now its latest incarnation as a more conventionally shaped box built for OTA and ClearQAM channel viewing with the possibility of easier cable access in the future.
Today the company is also announcing integration to Microsoft SkyDrive, expanding its current storage offering of DropBox, Box and Google Drive.
The store itself is also fairly bare, offering a simple search box at the top and defaulting to a list of best sellers below.
It's not clear at this point why a year-old system is being stifled by this seemingly arbitrary restriction, but with the PlayStation 3 offering developers Bluetooth out of the box, it seems that Microsoft either needs to change its tune or risk losing the small-but-vocal "rocker wannabe" demographic to the enemy.
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At a glance, it would seem like healthy competition as each of the major current players are offering an official entry into the summer box office sweepstakes.
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While incumbent software companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and IBM provide vertical solutions that include an end to end services for developers, Box is challenging them by offering what cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie calls an open system where developers can choose from a variety of providers and plug in to any of them.
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To corner the market, one of the two billionaires will first have to win over Comcast, which is currently offering Microsoft's Foundation Edition software and testing the Moxi box, made by Allen's company, Digeo.
Desperate to raise quick cash, many states have been offering amnesties that waive prosecution, penalties and even some interest ( see box).
Every offering prospectus must disclose the risks, the amount being raised, potential box office and the length of time a production will have to run before it can turn a profit.
Scivantage describes its offering as a turnkey online investing platform that can be used out of the box or customized extensively.
With touch-screen functionality on a fully capable machine with a proper amount of on-board storage that will be able to smoothly run Microsoft Office applications out of the box, Windows 8 promises to be an exciting transition for dedicated PC users, while offering the best of both worlds for tablet users.
It also means offering broadband Internet service accessible via a personal digital assistant, game console, cell phone or set-top box.
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