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Snapstick, D-Link launch trials for Google TV rival

Streaming Web content to TVs is one theme we expect to see lots of at CES. In early December, we took an advance look at Snapstick, a new company that streams Web content on your TV using your mobile phone as the remote control. Today, the start-up is announcing that potential partner D-Link will begin trials that incorporate Snapstick's Web-to-TV "SplitMedia" technology.

If trials go well, D-Link and Snapstick may ink a more permanent deal. Snapstick isn't seeking to manufacture hardware itself (at least not at this stage in its life cycle), but it does hope … Read more

Snapstick takes on Apple TV, Google TV

A startup called Snapstick is introducing its spin on Internet TV today that it hopes will compete heavily with Apple TV, Google TV, and other set-top boxes.

If you believe the demo video, a person holding an iPhone can "flick" the content toward a TV screen, which will suddenly begins playing the same content.

But how? Snapstick doesn't miraculously siphon videos from the iPhone to the TV. At this early, private beta stage, it's a software platform that can help your TV display streaming Web content--like those jealously protected Hulu videos--on its screen. Although that iPhone--or … Read more