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TiVo Buys Super Secret Strangeberry
Raindeer writes "According to SEC-filings Tivo has bought a start up of Marimba-founder and Java-designer Arthur van Hoff. The name of the startup is Strangeberry Just because of their job-titles they must be building something cool Chief Hackberry, Chief Wiseberry, Chief Smartberry. The SEC-Filings show that it has something to do with delivering broadbandservices to televission. A Dutch web-log claims to have a picture of what they are building. Anybody got anymore ideas on what this could be?"
Damn, I hate it when the caffeine in my morning coffee hits all at once and I have these hallucinations flashing back to the '90's.
"Chief Smartberry"? - "They must be building something cool, because of their job titles"?
I thought the days of the dot.bomb were OVER!
Seriously - does this look like VC-bait to anybody else? I mean, I love my DirecTivo, but good hardware, good software and a good service do NOT equal good management decisions!
Like so many other things in this world, I will wait and see if anything meaningful comes out of this. Until then, I shall exercise a healthy skepticism on this matter.
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It looks like a wireless reciever with something that may hook directly into your home ethernet, pulling media off of your home computers or the net. Maybe a media-centric version of WebTV?
There's lots of people working on these devices, maybe this company has created a nice interface for it? Maybe Tivo wants to purchase a company who has designed a device like this so that you can watch a tivo's playback on another TV without having to have an extra Tivo in the other room?
Hopefully this will be a killer app that will finally cause them to get bought out by a company with more clout, and get the Tivo system liscensed into more devices, making it cheaper and more affordable for me to get multiple tivo's :)
you make it look like the only thing Dutchies do, is smoke pot all day
well... we do, how else do you expect us to invent something called 'strangeberry'
The best I've squeezed out of the online translators are these:Version #1: Near the beursgang with Mary scooter Dutch oppertechneut Arthur with Hoff ( center) once more: he and one's four colleagues gone they ultrageheime start-up Strangeberry, lodged within one store within Palo Alto, upon Tivo. The transaction vond yard worn 12 January j.l. solely Tivo bracht the novelty passport yesterday outward. Established in April 2002 wax Strangeberry yet 'pre revenues, like who thus pretty named towards perpetrate who yet act they technology within put forth. The hermit works upon one employment within the field with the station below. After With Hoff and Jonathan Payne yet sooner work together towards Sun and Mary, wax yonder between they one volume sping up what by the relative province more than projecting wax. Yet was a failure the sometimes inconvenient until pretty the activities with Strangeberry not with the daken within squeal. With Hoff is rightly the spite with the HIO within Enschede and the university with Strathclyde. Solely unfortunately who he one's succession achieves within Silicon Valley and one's knowledge and experience not within The Netherlands pitcher transmit.
Version #2: After the floatation of Marimba Dutch oppertechneut score Arthur van Hoff (in the middle of) again: hij en zijn vier collega's verkochten hun ultrageheime start-up Strangeberry, housed in a winkeltje in Palo alto, to Tivo. The operation took place on 12 January j.l. but Tivo brought the news just yesterday to. Opgericht in april 2002 was Strangeberry nog 'pre revenue', such as that this way nicely is called at companies which still busy its their technology to develop. The lords work for an application in the field of the posting below. Nadat Van Hoff en Jonathan Payne al eerder samenwerkten bij Sun en Marimba, between them a link as a result of which mutual environment more than, had arisen sticking out were. Already it fell sometimes difficult for friends shout the activities of Strangeberry of the roofs. Van Hoff is rightly proud of the HIO in enschede and the university of Strathclyde. Alleen jammer dat hij zijn successen behaalt in Silicon Valley en zijn kennis en ervaring niet in Nederland kan overdragen.
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Actually a company with a minimal number of employees, buying what is now cheap office space, and keeping themselves under the radar sounds pretty coherent to me. It's the start-ups that have hundreds of employees with millions of VC and they go blow it on stupid unessentials that you should worry about. Frankly, Dean Kamen couldn't keep his mouth shut. He was constantly bragging about "it". Of course, it all turned out to be a bunch of garbage.
What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean....
These devices appear to be compact, next-generation DVR/cable modems. Note the USB and FireWire ports on the back, and the VCR-type controls along the top.