Nobody knows for sure anymore if Apple's rumored Siri-powered HDTV/iTV will see the light of day by the end of the year. That hasn't stopped so-called "source leaks" from making the rounds. A new report claims the Apple HDTV will sport three key features: FaceTime, Siri and AirPlay.

iOS app developer Steve Troughton-Smith has found a way to run apps directly off an Apple TV, rather than streaming from another source. Find out how he does it in the video below.

Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Oscar Mayer — the wiener people (no relation to Anthony) — ran a series of adorable commercials featuring kids singing about how their hot dogs and bologna had first and last names. It's how many people learned how to spell "B-O-L-O-G-N-A." The cellphone business took this inanimate object naming idea to heart. Heretofore, cellphone marketing geniuses kept saddling their wares with an alphabet soup of identifiers that looked as if they'd been created by a password generator or by the failed attempts of the infinite number of monkeys (not otherwise involved in planet domination) sitting at typewriters attempting to reproduce Hamlet. For a while, we were golden. StarTAC. Razor. Chocolate. iPhone. Droid. Galaxy. Evo. Evocative and easy to remember, everything a trade name should be. But those damned Shakespeare-typing primates may have taken over the cellphone naming planet, but Apple may have some need of them to help with identifiers for its upcoming iPhone and HDTV.

Apple took a few more strides toward an Internet-enabled television after a deal with a company called Rovi. What does that mean for me and you? Well, just like with the iPad, Apple may beat its competitors out of the gate in a major way once again.