Roku expands to Canada, announces availability of players in Best Buy and Future Shop

Roku just announced the availability of its popular streaming players—the Roku 2 XD and Roku 2 XS—at Best Buy and Future Shop stores around the country and online as well.

The Roku 2 XD offers you the best value for streaming video and music on TV, has built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, and supports 1080p HD video. The Roku 2 XS is the top-of-the-line version that has the XD's features but also comes with an enhanced remote with motion control, an Ethernet port, and a USB port. The players retail for $89.99 and $109.99, respectively.

Filmmaking made easy with ShotList

Good news for all ShotList users! UK-based Soluble Apps updated the iPhone/iPad app with version 4.2 that adds additional reports to help manage characters and locations needed for the shoot.

For the uninitiated, ShotList is a planning and tracking app for filmmakers that brings a full stripboard system to your Apple device. It can be used for everything from a daily to-do list, keeping notes and storyboards, tracking a shoot’s progress, as well as the shots completed. ShotList 4.2 costs $11.99 and is exclusively available on the iTunes App Store. 

Business Pages and Profiles getting verification badges on Facebook

Facebook is helping businesses authenticate their voices on the social networking site with verification badges. The badges are set to appear besides the name of verified Pages on their timeline, when hovering over the name of a Page, in searches, stories about users liking a Page, News Feed ads for the page, as well as in the “Pages You May Like” suggestions. No action is supposedly required to add the badges to a Page. Facebook will be the one to automatically verify Pages at the “greatest risk of duplication.”

Source: Facebook Studio

Apple sells 100 million iPod Touches, intros entry level model for $229

Apple is said to have sold 100 million iPod Touches. Launched in 2007 and a key product category for Apple as it is essentally the iPhone without the phone component, the iPod Touch is famous for being a multifunctional device. A pocket sized music and video player, a portable game device and an excellent Internet communicator with access to the web, iMessage and Facetime. The iPod Touch is popular among younger users who eventually rack up a collection of apps and eventually move to the iPhone. Apple recently added a $229 16GB iPod Touch with no rear facing camera.

Source: The Loop