They say competition is a gift to help you change, so good news for Apple TV fans as that particular set-top box now has even more competition when it comes to streaming entertainment, as the Boxee team have announced a partnership with a company which will bring a set top box equipped with the team’s technology, first sight of which comes December 7.“We have signed our first partnership with a CE company. At this point we can not say more about the partner or the specs of the device, but we can tell you we are working closely with them to make sure we deliver a great Boxee experience on it,” the company said.Boxee launched its public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES, where the company also met with several device manufactures interested in embedding Boxee into their existing devices or building a dedicated Boxee device.