New Apple Television concept features Siri integration, intuitive Interface and more

New Apple Television concept features Siri integration, intuitive Interface and more

A new Apple TV concept video takes a guess at how the next Apple TV or the much rumored full-blown Apple Television might look like. It takes the existing UI and adds a number of additional features to it, including Siri, Live TV and use iOS devices like iPad mini as a remote.

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Amazon Reportedly Working on Kindle Set-Top Box to Take on Apple TV

Amazon Reportedly Working on Kindle Set-Top Box to Take on Apple TV

If anyone comes close to Apple as far as its ecosystem is concerned, it’s Amazon, with the Kindle lines of hardware products, and its digital stores selling books, apps, music and video.

Amazon already sells e-readers and tablets, is rumored to launch a phone soon, and according to Bloomberg, the company is also working on a set-top box dedicated to video streaming.

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Apple Replacing 3rd Gen Apple TVs With Wi-Fi Issues

Apple Replacing 3rd Gen Apple TVs With Wi-Fi Issues

In an internal memo to retail stores, AppleCare employees and authorised resellers, Apple has acknowledged Wi-Fi connectivity issues with a “very small number” of Apple TVs, and has initiated a replacement program to replace affected units.

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Seas0nPass Updated To Add Tethered Jailbreak Support For Apple TV 5.2.1

Seas0nPass Updated To Add Tethered Jailbreak Support For Apple TV 5.2.1

FireCore had released an updated version of their jailbreaking tool – Seas0nPass to support tethered jailbreak for Apple TV software update 5.2.1 for Apple TV 2 few days back.

Apple had released Apple TV software update 5.2.1 last month, which included a number of security related fixes as well as a redesigned Hulu experience.

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Rolomotion Converts Your Apple TV into a Wii-Like Gaming Console

Rolomotion Converts Your Apple TV into a Wii-Like Gaming Console

Though Apple TV’s sales have been picking up, Apple hasn’t yet released an SDK for the platform to open it to third party developers. Instead, developers have been using the iOS SDK to pair devices with the Apple TV using AirPlay, the most notable example being Real Racing.

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Analyst: Apple Could Launch 60-inch ‘iTV’ in Late 2013 With ‘iRing’ Motion Control and ‘mini iTV’ Auxiliary Screens

Analyst: Apple Could Launch 60-inch ‘iTV’ in Late 2013 With ‘iRing’ Motion Control and ‘mini iTV’ Auxiliary Screens

Topeka Capital analyst Brian White has published a new research note to clients in which he claims Apple will indeed launch the rumored television set, unofficially dubbed “iTV” later this year.

He has also gone on to claim that it will come with some rather unbelievable features.

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Rumor: Apple Working On 4K TV For Late 2013 or Early 2014 Launch

Rumor: Apple Working On 4K TV For Late 2013 or Early 2014 Launch

After taking a back seat for sometime, it looks like the Apple Television set rumors are back.

DigiTimes reports that according to their supply chain sources, Apple is working on Ultra HD or 4K (3840×2160 resolution) television set. The ultra-high quality definition is four times as sharp as standard quality high definition.

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Apple Updates Apple TV Software to Version 5.2.1 With Redesigned Hulu, Bug Fixes

Apple Updates Apple TV Software to Version 5.2.1 With Redesigned Hulu, Bug Fixes

Hot on the heels of releasing iOS 6.1.3 for iOS devices, Apple also released an update for the Apple TV, bumping its software version to 5.1.2. The update contains a number of security related fixes as well as a redesigned Hulu experience.

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Die-Shrunk A5 Chip in Tweaked Apple TV 3 Still Manufactured by Samsung

Die-Shrunk A5 Chip in Tweaked Apple TV 3 Still Manufactured by Samsung

A few days ago, it was revealed that the tweaked Apple TV 3 comes with an A5 chip, as opposed to the earlier expected A5X chip. The chip was considerably smaller as compared to the previous version, with the die size being reduced by a factor of 2.

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Tweaked Apple TV 3 Powered By Die-Shrunk A5 Chip

Tweaked Apple TV 3 Powered By Die-Shrunk A5 Chip

Back in January, Apple quietly released the iOS 6.1 firmware for an Apple TV device with code name J33I (the code name of the third generation Apple TV is J33).

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