Sometimes watching rap battles on YouTube and grainy reruns of Pete and Pete on your computer just doesn’t cut it. Slingmedia was one of the first companies to solve this problem by offering a set-top box that would broadcast digitized cable content to a computer, the Slingbox, and it’s out to improve on that formula even more. The original Slingbox gets a makeover and new capabilities with the Slingbox Solo, announced Thursday.
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Kingdom Hearts II Ships
Square Enix and Buena Vista Games yesterday announced they’d shipped to retailers their new Kingdom Hearts II role playing game for the Sony PlayStation 2. Priced at $49.99, the game is rated “E10+†for ages 10 and up by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
Broadband To Dominate In Large U.S. Markets
From comScore’s press release:
comScore’s research revealed that San Diego has become the first metropolitan market in which a majority of Internet users connected to the Web through a broadband connection rather than a narrowband service. Further, the analysis found that among the largest 50 markets, San Diego, Boston and New York led the nation in the usage of broadband connections.

