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Apple TV Faces Obstacles to Conquer Living Room

Apple TV may be “an elementary effort” with little content available, but analysts point out that the iPod was also marginal when it was introduced.

Apple Faces Many Rivals for Streaming to TVs

SAN FRANCISCO -- When Steven P. Jobs introduced Apple's first iPod in 2001, it held more music and was easier to use than the handful of rival products already in the market. But it had a big shortcoming: it worked only with Macintosh computers, then less than 3 percent of the PC market.

Apple TV to rival Xbox+Windows; Game Center to rival Windows Phone 7

PlayTo media streaming is an often-overlooked feature built into Windows 7. Xbox Live is being integrated into Windows Phone 7. And Apple now has products to rival both.

Analyst: Xbox Live could get $100 per year Platinum subscription tier

When Microsoft announced earlier in the week that it was bumping the price of an Xbox Live subscription by $10 a year, the response on the Internet was incredulous anger. Sony has managed to keep its competing service, PlayStation Network, free, even though the feature set is roughly the same. By contrast, Microsoft has grafted [...]

Apple to launch Xbox Live-like game center next week

New Apple iPhone platform will allow video game players to track one another's achievements, create multiplayer matches and discover new games.