Netflix Boxes To Bulge With More Content

We’ve been watching Netflix’s growth with interest

going back to January 2002’s CPU

and we’ve definitely had our eye on the new Wi

Fi-packing Netflix Player by Roku ($99.99) for

its ability to stream Netflix goods (10,000 movies and TV initially) to a TV. Now,

there’s even more reason for excitement. Tim Twerdahl, Roku vice president of consumer

products, reportedly told Forbes in early July that Roku is lining up content from

“big-name” providers besides Netflix, although he wouldn’t say who the providers are.

Twerdahl did add the first shipment of the device sold out in three weeks. Nice.

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Apple Places Massive Order With Samsung

In addition to recent rumors that

it will gift the iPhone 3G and iPod

touch with the ability to remotely

control a user’s iTunes library in

the home, Apple also recently leapt

to the top of Samsung’s pecking

order by reportedly ordering 50

million 8Gb NAND chips from

the company’s memory division in

early July. Reportedly, the chips

will find a home in new iPhone

3G models. According to Digitimes,

Samsung thus told its customers

residing lower down on the

company’s priority list that it plans

to reduce NAND chip supplies

starting in July

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