Source: http://gizmodo.com/rokus-updated-ios-app-now-lets-you-stream-video-directl-1075606513
Roku's updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes. Which is neat.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/08/textbooks-now-available-through-google-play-books-in-us/
Google promised us that it would offer textbooks through Google Play Books this month, and it's living up to its word. American students can now buy educational titles or rent them for six months, with prices frequently undercutting paper editions. Appropriately, Google has updated its Google Play Books app for iOS to support rentals like its Android and web counterparts. The launch is a painful reminder that the fall semester is just around the corner, but college-goers who want to be prepared can check out the source links.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Google
Source: Google Play, App Store
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/08/silent-circle-follows-lavabits-example-shuts-down-its-secure-e/
Silent Circle's thing has always been the promise of end-to-end secure communications, and that drive is apparently causing it to shut down the Silent Mail email service. Reasons cited in a blog post by CTO Jon Callas include the insecure nature of email protocols and preemptively avoiding the outside (read: FISA) pressures that prompted Lavabit to close its doors. Silent Circle says it hadn't received any "subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else". Still, CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch he believed the government would come knocking due to certain high profile users of the service. Its phone, video and text products remain operational and claim to be "secure as ever", if you're wondering.
Filed under: Internet
Source: Silent Circle
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/09/inwatch-one-smart-watch-china/
Filed under: Wearables, Mobile
Via: Engadget Chinese
Source: inWatch (Chinese)
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/09/cyanogenmod-chromecast-tweak/
ClockworkMod dev Koushik Dutta is showing off another Android tweak that proves what can be done with Google's Chromecast dongle. Following up on his Phone to Chromecast Android app, and a Chrome extension that did the same, now he's added framework extensions to CyanogenMod that pipe audio and video content from any app -- that uses the system's default media player -- straight to the Chromecast. This should apparently work for pretty much anything, as he describes it plays locally stored content or streaming stuff like podcasts. In the demo video (embedded after the break) he shows it working with Twit.tv and BeyondPod. As with the previous examples, this isn't available for mass consumption just yet, but hit the source link to get a peek and ask any questions you have about how it works.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Software, HD, Mobile
Source: Koushik Dutta (Google+)
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