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Sling Media starts to take over the (multimedia) world

SlingPlayer on TreoThere's been a ton of news out of Sling Media during the first few days of CES. This morning, the company officially unveiled SlingPlayer Mobile for PalmOS.

A public beta of the Palm client is due out by the end of January, with an official launch date scheduled for the first quarter of 2007. There's no word yet on pricing, but seeing as SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows Mobile has been available for a while with a price of $30, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the Palm version will be comparably priced.

Sling also announced today that they'll be bundling some of their software with new HP notebooks, and they're demonstrating that SlingPlayer works with Vista, although I think the big surprise would have been if their software didn't run on Vista.

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Filed under: Business, Hardware, Apple, Google

Google and Apple iTV alliance in the works

google and appleGoogle's VP of Search Marissa Mayer recently told Newsweek that Apple and Google are "engaged in talks." The discussions are based around Apple's recent announcement of iTV, their new device that hooks up a users PC to their home TV. Google is talking about supplying Apple with videos for use through iTV.

The iTV device is essentially a media extender, allowing users to switch between a TV and computer screen. It is more or less a DVD player that happens to play internet videos. Teaming these two tech giants together for this project seems like a dominating stance in the "media extender" sector. It is a powerful tool that two companies could possibly be side by side making it the ultimate must have for total media enjoyment.

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