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Sony Xperia Pro reaches Europe, pre-orders start

Sony’s phone-that-is-mainly-a-pro-camera-accessory, the Xperia Pro, was announced way back in February of last year, and it finally launched in the US and Japan this January with a hard to swallow price of $2,500. Today the company is announcing that the Xperia Pro is making it across the pond and over to Europe, where it will be offered in the UK, Germany, and Nordic countries. While Sony…
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Google brings YouTube TV to main YouTube app on Roku in clever workaround

A week after Roku removed the YouTube TV app for new users, Google is countering by bringing the cord-cutting service to the main YouTube client.  Google has placed a “Go to YouTube TV” shortcut at the bottom of the main YouTube menu on Roku devices. This will load the YouTube TV experience that is no longer available as a standalone application. This strategy comes as the Play Movies &amp…
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TiVo may ditch Android TV going forward as Google copies the Stream 4K’s biggest selling point

About a year ago, the TiVo Stream 4K dongle made its debut, bringing Android TV to all for an affordable price and with a neat piece of software that could recommend and organize content. Sound familiar? Now that Google has built features just like this into its Android TV platform, it sounds like TiVo is planning to turn away. TiVo CEO Jon Kirchner noted during the company’s quarterly…
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Windows 10X, Microsoft’s Chrome OS competitor, not launching in 2021 and likely killed

At the start of 2021, a “near final version” of the operating system with which Microsoft intends to counter Chrome OS leaked. It revealed key visual similarities to Google’s offering, but it has now emerged that Windows 10X is not shipping in 2021 and might have been killed, at least in its current iteration. According to reports from Petri and Windows Central today, Microsoft is…
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