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AllCast Android Media streaming app works with Chromecast... Again

technologyEdward Kiledjian
Image by iannnnn under Creative Commons License

Image by iannnnn under Creative Commons License

The Chromecast is a little wonder at $30. It allows you to easily stream content directly from authorized apps (the internet) straight to your Chromecast without going through you smartphone or tablet. But El Goog (aka Google) has been very protective of its little baby and hasn't allowed "unauthorized" apps to connect and use it.

Why the change? Google released the Cast SDK yesterday which will allow developers to legally write apps for it (most creative developers has reverse engineered the code and were using that to stream to it, which Google didn't like).

Koushik Dutta, the famed developer of the first illegal Chromecast streaming app for Android, reports that he has now added legal support for his Chromecast to his all cast app (which already streams to Apple TV, Roku, Xbox, Playstation and most DLNA compliant devices).

Koushik said adding Chromecast support through the Cast SDK was a 20 minute affair. 

I am really excited because this means we may start seeing Chromecast support popping up on dozens of apps on Android and IOS. 

Streaming content from dozens of apps for $30 is a fantastic deal. Let's see what crazy products developers come out with.

New Apple TV secretly shipped to US

technologyEdward Kiledjian

Everyone is exciting about the new iPhone 5s that will be announced September 10th. I'm here to remind you that Apple will likely release an updated Apple TV. Unfortunately we haven't heard too many rumors about what will be updated, it is safe to assume it will get a faster processor and better graphics processing unit.

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Panjiva is reporting that a large shipment of set-top boxes (for Apple) has landed in the US. 

  • On August 25th, Apple received a shipment described as “Set Top Box with Communication Function” from BYD Precision Manufacture in Shenzhen, China.
  • On August 18th, Apple received another shipment, again from BYD, described as “Set Top Boxes.”
  • And on August 11th, Apple received its first shipment from BYD of “Set Top Box with Communication Function.”

This may be a shipment of the existing models but the fact that it is so close to the iPhone announcement, the fact that Apple has been adding content to its Apple TV lineup and the fact that it hasn't been updated in a while suggests this is something new.