Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
3G iPhone Coming Summer
Scott Craig (who can’t be trusted with two first names), a Bank of America analyst, is predicting that the 3G iPhone will be a reality by this summer. He also predicts Apple will “produce as many as 8 million of the 3G iPhones in the third quarter.” While this is good news for many who [...]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Wired Discusses Evil/Genius of Apple
I’d encourage everyone to pick up the April 2008 edition of Wired. They’ve got some interesting articles, as usual. This month their cover story is the Evil/Genius of Apple written by Leander Kahney–how Apple is winning by going against almost all the Silicon Valley ideals. For instance Apple maintains strict control over everything it does, rather than [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
TV – The Other White Space
Google, having lost the bid for a different set of airwaves, is now vying for so called ‘white space’ between the television broadcast channels. This so-called “grossly underutilized” space would be ideal for low-cost wireless internet. Google sees a great spectrum which could provide widespread access to mobile phones and hence a much larger mobile advertising [...]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
A New Blu-ray Battle
Just when Sony thought they could wipe their brow and relax after Toshiba gave up on HD-DVD, they’re now being investigated by the U.S. International Trade Commission. The investigation centers around possible patent infringement related to the players and other devices. The lawsuit likely won’t stop the domination of Blue-ray, but could lead to some thinner profit [...]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
YouTube Video of the Week
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Mourning Minghella
One of the best directors of this generation, and possibly my favorite, passed away Monday 0500 GMT. Anthony Minghella died yesterday, a week after having removed a growth from his neck that led to a fatal brain hemorrhage, he was only 54. Former British P.M. Tony Blair described Minghella as “a wonderful human being, creative [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Movies by Jason D.
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Friday Review (a day early)
YouTube on the teevee. TiVo users with broadband Internet connections will be able to watch YouTube clips on their televisions by the end of the year. AOL/Bebo and other slang. “If AOL can smoothly integrate Bebo with its AIM client and Platform-A ad network, great. Unfortunately, AOL doesn’t have that kind of track record. Another Apple [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Hulu for the masses
Hulu went live today. For those of you who didn’t already have access to the site you can now check it out without having to log in. Check out our review from December here.
No Comments » - Posted in TV on Web by Jason D.
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Sony’s Vindication
It might have taken 20 years but Sony is can now claim victory in the latest format war. We’ve been reporting on an on-going basis as more and more retailers have made Sony’s Blu-Ray format their choice and now the bitter loss of the betamax battle can finally be put behind them. Not only have retailers [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
More Than 100K iPhone SDK Downloads
Apple announced today that there have been more than 100,000 iPhone SDK downloads since it’s release: In the first four days since its launch on March 6, more than 100,000 iPhone developers have downloaded the iPhone SDK, Apple today announced. Leading developers such as AOL, Electronic Arts, Epocrates, salesforce.com and Sega have already demonstrated amazing applications [...]