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YouView growing as TalkTalk hands out 160,000 boxes

Looks like YouView is having a good year. TalkTalk handed out 160,000 YouView boxes between April and June, an increase of around 40 per cent on the total number of YouViewers in just three months. Announcing its financial results today, TalkTalk reveals it has dished out 390,000 YouView boxes, all told — quite the feat considering up until the end of …

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Chromecast isn’t a Roku/Apple TV killer

Google today announced a $35 streaming-TV dongle called the Chromecast, and everyone promptly went nuts. The product sold out almost immediately. For a while, the Chromecast coverage was the most popular content on CNET — surpassing interest even in the newly announced (and very promising) Nexus 7 tablet. Headlines from Business Insider (“Google announced a brand-new Apple TV-killer…”) and the …

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