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Apple to Buy TiVo?

Posted by samzenpus on from the rumor-mill dept.

vallette writes "Reuters is reporting that Apple may be interested in buying TiVo. Seems like a good fit to me. Both companies stock price is up on the rumor."

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  1. Rumours? by camcorder · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why is it allways Apple that's involved with those rumours? Apples should better hire better PR guys or stop getting benefits from so called rumours.

  2. now I can tivo the tiger release trial! by brainchill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wahoo

  3. Re:Go for it! by Golias · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FedEx is a verb now, too... but both UPS and USPS manage to "fedex" a hell of a lot more packages every year.

    Brand ubiquity is not the same thing as brand loyalty.

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  4. Abuse of moderation detected by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hello, moderators! My post is factual and informative. I'm sorry I bashed your beloved Apple, but the fact is that it is not capable of handling output of MPEG-compressed full-HD resolution video streams.

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