Apple has announced it will be celebrating the upcoming release of Paul McCartney’s new album, entitled “Kisses on the Bottom,” by streaming a live concert of the artist for free via iTunes and Apple TV. The concert will be taking place at Capitol Studios on Thursday, February 9th at 7:00 pm PST and the live stream can be accessed via iTunes or on your Apple TV through “iTunes Live” within the Internet menu.

Best Buy has sent out a customer survey asking customers about their opinions of a potential Apple iTV or HDTV and whether they would be interested in purchasing one. The description of the Apple HDTV Best Buy gives seems to be a combination of the current Apple TV and a large-screen television.

Apple has rolled out a new feature for Apple TV users. Owners of the media streaming device will now find a new option called Genius under Movies and TV Shows. The Mac version of the iTunes Store has had Genius recommendations for quite some time, but the feature has been absent from Apple TV until now. The Genius feature recommends iTunes content to watch based on your purchase history.

Along with rolling out Boxee version 1.5 to the boxes, you can now get additional content into your Boxee box with the Boxee Live TV tuner. It’s a USB dongle that plugs into the back of your Boxee Box and delivers over the air (OTA) content into your Box, giving you yet another reason to cut the cable (bill). This makes the Boxee Box the first mainstream set top box to deliver over the air and over the top (Internet) content. Try to do that with your Apple TV.

Some owners of Apple TVs have been reporting an issue with watching streaming YouTube videos, in which attempting to play any YouTube clip through the Internet section of the Apple TV’s main menu brings up the following error message: “No content was found. There is a problem communicating with YouTube. Try again later.”

The same developers who participated in the creation of the Siri port for many jailbroken iOS devices have created an interesting new hack for Apple TV. The hack, which is in its early stages, will allow Apple TV users to run potentially any iOS app on the $99 set-top-box. According to the developer, Steve Troughton more »

Just about a month after the release of the Apple TV v4.4.3, Apple has released a new update that will bring it to v4.4.4 (Build 9A406a). The release notes from Apple state the update includes the basic improvements: software stability, a performance and a fix related to an error when attempting to play certain types of video content. The acts similarly like the previous build, featuring only the small bug fixes and nothing more.

While pervasive voice-activated computing may be part of our future, there will still be room for good old buttons here and there—including remote controls and keyboards. So, while asking your TV to show you the latest episode of Arrested Development is undoubtedly cool, it is simply not likely to happen anytime in the near future.

Apple iTV, what it could do, and whether it’s going to become a reality has been on the minds of many after Steve Jobs’ biography came out. In it, Jobs revealed, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.”

Electronic retailers such as Best-Buy and Amazon got an early start this Black Friday, offering better deals than Apple’s Black Friday discounts. Amazon is offering up to $150 off Apple computers such as the 1.60GHz 11″ MacBook Air 64GB, for example, and Best Buy also has their share of Apple products on sale, including the iMac, iPad 2 and Apple TV. You’ve got just a couple hours left before Black Friday 2011 has passed you by, so get those orders in now to get significant savings on Apple products.