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TiVo Buys Super Secret Strangeberry

Posted by Hemos on from the and-your-father-smells-of-elderberries dept.

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?"

3 of 254 comments (clear)

  1. Yes, it is obvious by Groo+Wanderer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That thing you are looking at is a FAKE, not a real red flower. It is kind of hard to tell, mainly because there is so much unidentified techno-garbage in the foreground.

    -Charlie

  2. Re:Hackberry, Wiseberry, Smartberry ... by rogabean · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    your father smelled of elderberries...not strangeberries ;) those the above mentioned berries seem strange.

    all i've got to say is whatever they are building, it better be scratch and sniff enabled.

    --
    "why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
  3. Re:Well... by babbage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The colorful device on the far side is clearly a fake version of a well-established product. Are they skirting patent law here?

    ;-)

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    DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL