(…) three products generated the most passion in the gizmosphere: Nintendo’s Wii, Activision’s Guitar Hero series, and Apple’s iPhone. (We know, they were released earlier, but in 2008 they dominated the zeitgeist.) What do they have in common, besides creating happy shareholders and long lines at stores? They all integrate the digital world into the [...]

French subscription-based channel Canal+ and Canal Sat are launching a brand new set-top box for HDTV, IPTV and VOD named “Le Cube“.
The box and the user experience has been designed by Yves Behar at fuseproject (designers of Jawbone, OLPC among other great products).

Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, co-inventors of Kazaa and Skype, are launching a new service called Joost that takes benefit of P2P technology to bring TV to the masses through the web.
It’s about time. Now YouTube has set new standards for video access on the web, many people are working on new paradigms to blow [...]