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Buzz Out Loud 836: I would rather get in shape than kill hookers

It looks like Wii Fit will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV this year, Apple's already sold 10 million iPhones, people are lining up for the T-Mobile G1 Android phone (much to our surprise), and just when we started to think the economy might be turning around after all, we got the news about Yahoo laying off some 1,400-plus people. Ouch. Listen now: Download today's podcast

EPISODE 836

T-Mobile delivers the G1 (aka Android) phone http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10072545-94.html http://news.cnet.com/2300-1039_3-6247193-1.html

Google’s open-source Android now actually open http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10071093-92.html… Read more

Boxee adds support for Hulu, CBS video

On Monday Boxee, the Mac, Linux, and Apple TV-only Xbox Media Center derivative, announced the immediate support of video programming from Hulu and CBS. Users are now able to access the entirety both services catalogs of movies and TV shows through Boxee's interface. I spent the greater part of last night giving it a spin and while not perfect, it's off to a tremendous start.

Unlike some of the streaming solutions I've seen on other platforms, like the unofficial Netflix Watch Instantly for Windows Media Center plug-in, the beauty of Boxee's solution is that any semblance … Read more

Boxee Media Center hacks its way onto AppleTV

AppleTV has a rich history of getting hacked for the sake of adding extra utility. Contained within its small confines is a reasonably powerful computer that's capable of running Mac OS X (albeit slowly). The problem is that despite this power, the system software is tied to iTunes and its sister store for movies, music, and TV shows. This hinders it from competing with devices like mini-PCs and game machines that offer a huge variety of media playback, including DVDs and Blu-ray movies.

To help solve this, Boxee founder and CEO Avner Ronen has published instructions on how to … Read more

Hands-on with Boxee: A gorgeous social-media viewer [Video]

Tuesday, I got a peek at Boxee, a personal media center that's currently in private alpha. My colleague Greg Sandoval wrote about it shortly after it was unveiled last week, but it's worth delving into what I think will be the next big thing in media center software.

Created by a small team of just under a dozen developers, the framework for Boxee is actually a project that was already in use in hundreds of thousands of machines around the world: Xbox Media Center. This software was created by gaming enthusiasts who had modified first-generation Xboxes to run … Read more

Turning the TV into a 'social-media center'

LOS ANGELES--Boxee wants to give Steve Ballmer what he wants.

The Microsoft CEO complained recently how unsocial the television set is compared to the Web.

"My son will stay up all night basically playing Xbox Live with friends that are in various parts of the world," Ballmer told The Washington Post. "And yet I can't sit there in front of the TV and have the same kind of a social interaction around my favorite basketball game or golf match."

Boxee, a start-up that will launch a test version of the service on Monday, has … Read more