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Last year, when Apple released the next-generation Apple TV, I was happy. I felt that after all these years, the company finally understood just how important the living room was to its customers. And although I wasn’t blown away by the device’s functionality, I was confident that Apple would show me something new this year. But now that December is upon us and the holiday-shopping season is in full swing, I’ve lost all hope. Now was the time for Apple to launch its updated Apple TV, and yet, it hasn’t done so. Consumers hoping to get a set-top box to connect to their televisions will need to buy last year’s model — at the same $99 price tag. I now have a much different view on Apple’s plans with its set-top box. I’m convinced now that the company has quietly killed the Apple TV, and the current device will continue to collect dust on store shelves until the company’s long-rumored television comes out. Admittedly, I don’t have such a problem with that move.  As I’ve said here before ,

Apple‘s attempts to have Samsung’s smartphones and tablets banned from sale in the US have been rejected in the US courts, with a ruling late on Friday throwing out the possibility of a preliminary injunction. ”It is not clear that an injunction on Samsung’s accused devices would prevent Apple from being irreparably harmed” US District Judge Lucy Koh concluded in the San Jose court, Reuters reports, arguing that Apple had not sufficiently demonstrated that its design patents would not be overturned in the eventual trial. “Apple has established a likelihood of success on the merits at trial [for some of the smartphones cited]” Judge Koh suggested, indicating that the design Samsung had used for some of the contentious handsets did appear to fall foul of Apple’s patents at this early stage. A similar case for at least one Samsung tablet was likely to be made, she continued. However, Apple had failed to sufficiently convince that it could overcome Samsung’s challenges to the validity of t

One of the most surprising aspects of our hands-on series with the ASUS Transformer Prime thus far has been the single benchmark in which the iPad 2 did better graphically than this quad-core powerhouse, as seen in ourfirst comparison between the two – but check out a couple of videos that should very well convince you that there’s no perfect clarity in a set of benchmarks performed on machines with two very different sets of innards. What we’ve got here is the Prime and the iPad 2 running two games side-by side at the same time: first Riptide GP, then Shadowgun, both games that show the real power of dual-core and up gaming – behold the smoothness! Riptide GP The first example you’re looking at here is a game by the name of Riptide GP, a jetski racing game whose developers have been working closely with the NVIDIA team to optimize both the gameplay and the graphics within. What you’re seeing here is the most updated version of the game for the iPad 2 and its dual-core A5 chip on t