You’ve got to palm it to Litl — even after a Webbook unsuccessful to stir, a startup is still trudging though a tool trenches. And there’s no doubt which the brand-new settop box it’s tinkering with sounds engaging: similar to the Webbook, it will run Litl’s really own Linux OS, and will be formed upon the browser and web apps — in actuality, a company is rising an SDK for a Flash-based HTPC tomorrow during a Flash as well as a City discussion. The many engaging thing to us is a lovable small touchscreen remote, that will assumingly let you carryout a UI from the cot with multitouch gestures. Sounds flattering snazzy to us, though you’ll have to wait for until early 2011 to get a single of these in your living room. Litl’s CEO John Chuang wouldn’t share much upon a hardware front, but you know it’s powered by a little sort of x86 processor, as well as will have HDMI and composite-out to bond to your HDTV, as good as Ethernet / WiFi tie options. We’re anticipating by afterwards which there will be a little Android-based settop boxes upon the marketplace, though which doesn’t be concerned Litl — Chuang claims it’ll be the dead-simple consumer product. No word upon a name of this thing, but there’s patently time to confirm upon that. Hit a mangle for the press release, and a gallery next for a little early designs of a device. Litl settop box press images

Show full PR textLitl to Launch Flash-Based Web-Connected TV Product
Releases Software Development Kit (SDK) to Flash Community

Boston – May 11, 2010 – At a arriving Flash as well as a City (flashandthecity.com) developers discussion, litl (litl.com) will exhibit plans for the brand-new web-connected TV product slated for launch in early 2011 as well as extend a stretch of the discerning program platform by releasing an Adobe® Flash® 10.1-based program growth pack (SDK).

“We have been receiving a elementary, discerning knowledge which you grown for the webbook as well as bringing it to the family room TV,” pronounced Chuck Freedman, litl’s chief channel evangelist. “Until right away, applications for TVs as well as set-top boxes have consisted of small some-more than widgets. Our height changes everything by enabling feature-rich, Flash-based apps without a complexity of the desktop surroundings.”

Launched in November, a litl webbook is an Internet mechanism for a home. It runs litl OS, an operating complement with the insubordinate user interface designed to have computing elementary as well as enjoyable. The company’s programmed web-connected TV device will additionally run litl OS.

“We hold which the platform’s use of Flash will be a best and easiest approach for developers to broach good calm as well as applications to a TV,” said Freedman. “And with a launch of the SDK, you have been enabling over a single million developers in the Flash village to monetize their work by office building brand-new apps or porting their existent apps to the store.”

Supporting Adobe Flash Player 10.1, a litl SDK includes the formula library, simulator, code samples, and support. The SDK will goon to allege in entrance months with new APIs, together with accelerometer transformation, video discuss, trackpad gestures, as well as microphone submit which will allow open growth of gaming, communication, entertainment as well as alternative practice.

With a litl webbook, users can entrance web calm by law Flash applications which renovate web calm to have it some-more utilitarian as well as interesting. Applications custom-designed by litl as well as now accessible to users embody Facebook, The Weather Channel, Flickr, Shutterfly, as well as BakeSpace. With a release of a litl SDK, users will good from the most larger selection of applications created by eccentric developers as well as partners.

To learn some-more and get proposed, developers can visit developer.litl.com to request for a SDK’s private beta package. At a Flash as well as a City discussion in New York from May 14-16, member from litl will be upon palm to introduce a SDK, share rollout skeleton, as well as assistance developers get proposed.

About litl
Based in Boston, litl was founded to have record easy to make use of. The company’s inclination run litl OS, an operating system which allows quick connectivity to the web with the user interface that is elementary as well as discerning. We entice you to sense some-more during litl.com.