Is it possible that ho-hum Yahoo has finally a new hit up its sleeve?
A real reason for Steve Ballmer to keep wooing Yahoo?

Many have tried internet over TV but Yahoo has a new approach: a set of widgets called Yahoo ConnectedTV, designed for a new wave of "connected HDTVs" that will begin hitting the European market (at least Korean brands) in Q3 2009. Think iPhone Apps but for TV: the widgets themselves will be created by the third parties. The most interesting widgets will be the ones that work in harmony with the shows.

At this year's CES (and in Europe you can bet on IFA), companies like LG unveiled connected TVs with internet or network connection.

As your TV connects to internet, you can go to a Yahoo site. There you choose and install a widget (choose Facebook, for example) on the Linux OS inside your TV. The widget installs on your TV and overlays your web choice on top of your TV programming.

And you never had to reach for a PC or mouse…it’s TV-driven.But analysts predict this will force a new wave of TV remotes to accommodate the multifarious web content.

Go Yahoo Wins with Widgets

Get your customers the 4TB Western Digital ShareSpace: they can load it up with video, audio, application installations files, drivers -- anything they're going to need from the PCs across a home network. If you just have a 2 or 3 node network, routers have USB ports to connect a drive like this and create a Home NAS for less.

This high-speed Gigabit Ethernet storage system can handle a small office plus a home network (a common configuration today), giving centralized storage with plenty of capacity to go around.

The box measures about 7.7 inches high by 8 inches long and 6 inches wide. "Green" drives inside run cool by using nearly 40% less power than a standard HDD.

Installation is simple: run the included CD. Accessing the ShareSpace and its options from a browser is via icons that guide you through the tasks.

Go  WD ShareSpace

The GigaVideo580 is a video transmitter to send the images from your hard disk recorder, satellite receiver or digital TV decoder to a second TV in your house.

Most video transmitters operate on the 2.4GHz frequency band. The GigaVideo580 is an exception to this. It sends the audio and video signal via the 5.8GHz frequency band. The difference between video transmitters with a 2.4GHz signal and a 5.8GHz signal is that this last one doesn’t interfere with other devices in the house at the 2.4GHz frequency band (like WiFi, Bluetooth, cordless telephones and even microwave ovens).

Go GigaVideo580

ZvBox closes the huge gap between HDTVs and the computer: ZvBox allows end user access to any internet TV, online video, music or computer content from all HDTVs in the home.

An ABI Research study on residential gateways forecasts home networking consumer premises equipment and aggregation devices will deliver at least $1.8 billion in annual revenues by the end of 2013.

Blistered packed and ready to go: the ATEN 2-port USB DVI KVM audio enabled cable, Load business presentation or films onto your home server. Play games on more than one machine at a time. Who would have ever thought we'd see the "KVM" out of the IT department in sold on a MediaMarkt peg-rack?