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The chip-maker has said its Silicon Valley star-studded Intel Media group will build a potentially game-changing set-top box — one that might just end up slashing your cable bill.
This week, Cisco got educational, Swatch got you hooked on love, and Intel parlayed its Ultrabooks to get a jump in the social media ranks.
The chip maker's much rumored CES announcement — the set-top box that was supposed to revolutionize the cable industry via subscribe-by-channel deals — is not a box at all, and it will not, in fact, change the way you pay for television.
So, about that revolutionary streaming TV device that Intel is supposedly creating in secret and will reveal at next week's Consumer Electronics Show: don't believe the rumors, at least not right now.
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Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: Disney ruled the rankings while Intel figured out that you really, really liked talking about yourself.
Intel has been pitching media companies its "virtual cable operator" plans, sources "familiar with the effort" told The Wall Street Journal's Sam Schechner and Don Clark, but from what we know of the plan there is a lot that could go wrong.
On the same day that Google ran a microchip-themed Doodle to commemorate the 84th birthday of its late founder Robert Noyce, Intel announced that a supply shortage due to widespread flooding in Thailand would cost the company about a billion dollars in revenue in the fourth quarter.
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