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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

As DVR Playground reported last week, Sling Media officially will release three new Slingboxes on September 28th. This release marks the first hardware upgrade of the Slingbox which won several innovation awards this past year.
Slingcommunity got a sneak preview of the new Slingbox line containing the Slingbox Tuner, A/V and [...]

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RealTechNews
Windows XP has a ton of hidden utitlities that often go undiscovered for years. Case in point, a hidden icon creator called Eudcedit. The name is awful, but it is handy for creating desktop icons, fonts, and even logos.
To start the program go to Run in the Start Menu then type eudcedit and [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

In an effort to make the Intel Viiv platform useful, Intel has partnered with DirecTV to allow the recently released HD DVR stream video and audio from Intel Viiv systems with the Digital Media Server software.
Intel leased a huge space at CES back in January showcasing their Viiv technology. While [...]

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By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
In a recent post from Ben Edelman, he details how the TRUSTe seal could be helping bad actors infect users pc’s, because they trust these seals mean that the site is trustworthy, du huh. So Ben took an empirical look at TRUSTe and compared their sites with the findings of SiteAdvisor, [...]

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
In another of those “I’m not surprised” type stories, AOL has been sued over the release of search data for 650,000 users which occurred in August. The suit was filed in California which could complicate matters since it’s unclear how many users out of the 650,000 reside in California.
The suit [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The latest build of Windows Vista, RC1 Build 5728, is now available to the public for download. Click here to get it. If you are not experienceing any problems, you may want to skip this update, as this release has not gone through the same internal testing process and could be [...]

ShareBy Chief Gadgeteer, Gizmos for Geeks
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
If you’re considering buying an HD radio, then you may want to hold off for 2 months or so. TWICE magazine is reporting that at least 21 HD Radio SKUs for the home will be available from 14 brands by November. They’ve got a preview of some [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
This isn’t a completely surprising headline: there are 2.73 TV sets compared with 2.55 people in the typical American home. The statistic that I would like to see is how many computers there are in the average home. For comparison, my 2 person household only has 2 [...]