When The Economist speaks, we listen: “AS MORE and more of the world’s business is conducted online, a battle royal is taking shape. The struggle is to decide which company will become the primary gateway to the internet.”
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When The Economist speaks, we listen: “AS MORE and more of the world’s business is conducted online, a battle royal is taking shape. The struggle is to decide which company will become the primary gateway to the internet.”
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Initial chromecast testing has revealed that it is a DIAL device and sniffing shows several interesting commands that can be sent to it. The chromecast dongle is apparently listening on http port 8008. (Also port 9080 while Netflix app is running) Some control can be established by sending simple HTTP GET’s, POST’s and DELETE’s. ** […]
Well that didn’t take long. The team over at GTVHacker have worked their magic on Chromecast. The HDMI dongle announced by Google last week was so popular they had to cancel their 3-free-months of Netflix perk. via Pocket http://hackaday.com/2013/07/29/chromecast-bootloader-exploit-it-runs-android/ Here’s the how-to: Bootloader Exploit Package Waiting on my USB OTG cable to come….
As soon as I heard about the pilot program, you know I was already signed up. My buddy Mason just got his in the mail yesterday… Where’s mine Google??? 🙁 The hardware has a slight 2007 Macbook feel to it. I was honestly blown away by the speed of boot and login. All of my bookmarks […]