Boxee Beta Back on AppleTV

For AppleTV users, there hasn’t been an easy way to get Boxee’s Beta loaded since Boxee released it publicly at CES this year. Now users teamed up to get the software media center back on the popular gadget.

First Bitesize of 2010

Information overload! That’s the only way to explain the “January Effect” of tech and VC news since the new decade began a week ago.
Here’s a few links worth clicking on:
Microsoft’s research and development center in Israel is set to hire dozens of new employees
SAPIR extends the power of web searches beyond centralized text and metadata [...]

Boxee Set Up Box On Its Way

Avner Ronen, Boxee’s CEO, announced that the company is planning to unveil its new harware product, the Boxee set up box slated for release in 2010.

Today Boxee Starts Competing with Hulu, On Windows

We told you about Boxee’s app dev challenge a few weeks ago, where 40 apps were developed with great innovation. Yesterday the results have been unveiled in San Francisco but the big winner was… Boxee!  The Israeli media center start up is loved by the open source development community and is about to roll out [...]

Boxee’s API Wants Your Apps, Coders

Boxee TV is possibly one of the coolest Israeli start ups out there right now. Based on open source software, Boxee is trying to beef up its offering by harnessing the power of the development community through free app building. The Boxee API is already accepting a variety of apps, but the company felt compelled to [...]

Stream Video On The iPhone with The Boxee App? Not Yet…

I was really excited when I heard that the Boxee Remote App was approved for the app store, thinking that here comes streatming video on the iPhone… but I guess I have to be more patient. The new Boxee Remote App is a remote control for your Apple TV, in case you happened to lose the tiny Apple [...]

Bitesize Monday: 10 Links on Business Models, Boxee, Search and more

Here’s a list of noteworthy links for the week starting on February 9th 2009. Some old, some new, but all GOOD.
1. How important is search for users? According to TNS, 81% of Internet users use search to find information.
2. Yahoo Finance lists 15 companies that might not survive 2009.
3. Do you know what is Cyber [...]

New: Browse Netflix on Boxee

Israeli media center start up Boxee is working hard at bringing the best TV experience onto the PC (or the Mac in this case…). The company has announced the release of Netflix for Boxee, probably one of the best ways to browse Netflix, with a media center experience. The new capabilities include the ability to [...]

Boxee Raised $4M today

A week ago VC Cafe covered the alpha release of Israel and San Francisco based boxee. Today Boxee has announced a $4 million A round from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures to continue development of its social media center software.
Boxee takes TV viewing online to the next level, by giving your computer a TV-like [...]

Boxee, My6Sense and Didiom: What about compatibility?

I was very impressed with each of these three Israeli startups when I got the invitation to test them. Even
though Boxee, My6sense and Didiom are very different from one another, I’ve had compatibility issues with all of them. In a nutshell, if you don’t have a Mac and an iPhone – you’re behind the curve, [...]

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