It's still just a
proof of concept, which is a bit of a disappointment, but
Ubuntu TV was here at CES making its public debut. For the moment it's running on an external PC and being controlled by a Boxee remote, but Canonical hopes one day to have its media-focused Linux distro embedded in TVs. Even in its relatively young incarnation, the 10-foot tweak of Unity seams relatively smooth. A rep showed off the media browser and guide, including the interface for tying in movie rentals and purchases (we guess we know where the
Ubuntu One store will be going next). It's all pretty slick and, to be honest, if we could hack this in to the dumb set currently gracing our TV bench we certainly would. Check out the gallery below and the video walkthrough after the break.
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Ubuntu TV eyes-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If you got your parents an iPad for
Christmas, you were probably thanked with this: "Can it run
Office?" CloudOn may be the answer, the cloud-based service letting you log in to create and edit Office documents on the aforesaid slate. Similar to a lot of remote services, CloudOn runs Office on its own end and allows you to pull in documents from Dropbox for editing and post them back when you're done. Strangely, CloudOn launched on the App Store as a freebie but was pulled due to heavy demand. The company has asked users to sign up to be notified when the app goes back in the App Store. In other news,
Las Vegas oddsmakers are now taking bets as to which will occur first; the release of an iOS-native version of Microsoft Office or the
Robot Apocalypse.
CloudOn offers Microsoft Office functionality for iPad, your parents will love it originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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