TiVo like other electronic companies at CES 2015 made an exciting announcement: TiVo OnePass. This doesn’t involve any hardware, but is rather a new feature to be pushed to certain TiVo DVRs targeting binge-watchers.

OnePass will be arriving some time next month to applicable users. It is aimed to those who watch serveral episodes back-to-back and don’t like to search for that one wayward episode in between.

TiVo users can use the TiVo OnePass to locate all episodes of the show they wish to watch in the My Shows folder, arranged neatly season-wise.

If the episode is not recorded by the user, TiVo will enable services of other streaming networks to fill in the episode gaps. These include Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Instant Video. Users have the option to follow through with recordings only or to stick to streaming.

They will simply expand your Internet TV Streaming experience within their own service.

OnePass features includes:

• – Select recording or streaming of your content, you may save the content on your local disk, or you can stream your whole experience, or both.
• – Across all your TiVO platforms and apps you can include all seasons for a TV show, start with only one season, or only include new unwatched episodes.
• – Organising all your streaming and recorded video under a “My Shows” section, in directories after the name of the show.
• – Remembering your last watched episode and bookmarking the next so you don’t have to remember where you are when you are breaking from your binge watching.

TiVo plans to push its plans out in February to its Roamio and Mini users. Those using the TiVo apps on their smartphones and tablets will also be able to utilize the feature. iOS users will get it first in February, followed by Android users receiving the feature in March.

On December 10, 2014, Rdio, one of largest music streaming services in the world, announced its partnership expansion with Roku. The expansion introduces new enhancements to the Rdio app that make accessing and using it on the Roku easier and more convenient than ever before.

Roku customers in the US, UK, Ireland and Canada will all be able to take advantage of these new features on Rdio’s free internet radio stream and the app’s paid on-demand subscription service.

Roku customers can instantly access the Rdio channel’s 30+ million song library from the newly added Rdio shortcut button that will now appear on the Roku remote controls. This button will appear on the following Roku models: Roku 3, the Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI version) and Roku TV models in the US.

Also included in these new enhancements is integrated billing for paid Rdio subscribers and more convenient upgrades for any free ad-supported Rdio users interested in the benefits of upgrading to a paid subscription. All billing and payments can be conveniently performed via customer Roku accounts.

Another result of this expansion is that Rdio is now the default channel whenever any new Roku activation processes take place. This makes it easier for customers to add the Rdio channel to their Roku home screen. Also, until December 31^st, all new Roku player or Roku TV model purchases and activations will come with a free 2-month Rdio Unlimited subscription.

Rdio was originally founded in August 2010 by Janus Friis, who is also a co-creator of Skype. The Rdio headquarters is located in San Francisco, CA.

Hewlett-Packard is looking to perk up its troubled business and shake up the computer industry next year with plans to release a revolutionary new operating system for a new and redefined computer.

HP is currently working on the creation of an exotic new computer called “The Machine”. Compared to current products offered by the company, it will be more powerful and energy-efficient. Computers of today have two types of memory as developed by an approach in the 1940s. Performance is limited by the need to shuttle back and forth between the two. The Machine attempts to change this approach by adopting a single memory.

“A model from the beginning of computing has been reflected in everything since, and it is holding us back,” says chief architect for The Machine, Kirk Bresniker. This project has drawn 75 percent of the 200-person staff in HP Labs. Bresniker said that CEO Meg Whitman has shown her support towards the project by expanding HP’s research spending.

Internet companies like Google and Facebook can expect competition from The Machine, as it will be designed to run similar services and run corporate networks. Bresniker says that elements of its design could one day be adapted for smaller devices, as well.

A working prototype of the the project should be available by 2016, according to Bresinker, in order for researchers and developers to be familiar with the OS before then. Linux++ will be an operating system designed for The Machine in June 2015. For developers to test their code on the new operating system, tools will be released and a software emulating the hardware design. Linux++ will be ultimately replaced in favor of an OS designed from scratch, specifically for The Machines, called Carbon.

The Machine will be differentiated from mainstream conventional computers by its memory storage. It will use the same kind of singular memory for both temporary and long-term storage of data. Computers of today use a hard drive or flash drive to retrieve data, and RAM to load the program.

In The Machines, HP plans to have one single memory – as memristors – for both long-term and short-term memory. Instead of the conventional shuttling between two kinds, The Machine will save on time and deliver better power. Memristor memory should be faster than RAM, store more data than today’s hard drives and retain data even when it is powered off.

HP will be using optical fiber instead of traditional copper wiring for moving data around. If a server were to built on to The Machine’s blueprints, it would be six times more powerful while only using 1.25 percent of energy, having 10 percent the size.

HP is not the only tech giant with an eye for reinvention. Google and Facebook have also been looking into redefining server designs.

“Right now it’s not clear what technology is going to become useful in a big way,” says Steven Swanson, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, who researches large-scale computer systems.

The memristor memory was first marketed to the public by HP in 2010, predicting the first products to be ready in 2013. However, the company fell behind schedule.

Bresniker said that HP partners won’t receive the first working chips until 2016 at the earliest.

4K video streaming will now be offered by Amazon to its Prime subscribers on limited content, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday morning.

Content offered by Amazon in 4K streaming seems to be mostly original series’ produced by the company which includes Transparent and Alpha House. Other studio TV serials will also be offered with Orphan Black being mentioned specifically.

A selection of movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment will be offered for free streaming to Amazon Prime subscribers. Only four movies have been listed as 4K streamable: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Funny Girl; Hitch; and Philadelphia.

Non-Prime customers can also enjoy 4K content through a purchase, not streaming. Other movies offered from Sony Pictures include The Mask of Zorro, The Amazing Spider-Man, Hancock and The Patriot. Films from other studios are not yet available but the press release states that more movies will be coming in 2015.

The new streaming service is currently not available to users residing outside of the United States.

Bandwidth requirements for 4K Ultra HD streaming is as yet unknown. Considering it is four times the speed of 1080p resolution videos, a lot of people may have issues with their internet connections.

The 4K UltraHD stream has a standard resolution of 3840×2160. This can only be played on approved 4K “smart TV” from LG, Sony, or Samsung which come in a price range starting from $900 and going above $25,000. Computers with 4K-capable monitors will not be able to handle the 4K programming.

Last week Firefox announced a new and unique browser is in the works which will be “the first browser dedicated to developers”.

Two of Firefox’s most popular developer tools will be integrated within the new project: WebIDE and the Firefox Tools Adapter. The average Internet user never interacts with these tools, although they are freely available for download in the latest version of the Firefox browser.

These tools will be accessible up front in the new developer-specific browser.

“When building for the Web, developers tend to use a myriad of different tools which often don’t work well together,” the announcement on Mozilla’s official blog states. “This means you end up switching between different tools, platforms and browsers which can slow you down and make you less productive. So we decided to unleash our developer tools team on the entire browser to see how we could make your lives easier.”

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