This morning, Engadget reported that AT&T’s bid for Straight Path Communications, thought to be ironclad, was trounced by an unnamed competitor, thought to be Verizon. AT&T had put $1.6 billion on the table for the small communications company,…
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Could it have been four years ago? I remember it as if it were only three. Back at the end of 2013, I found a great article detailing the biggest tech fails of the year. Back then, everyone…
DIRECTV’s AIM Meter is THE satellite meter to use if you’re serious about aiming DIRECTV dishes. It’s the only one approved for installer use, the only one that will aim the new generation of SWM-enabled dishes, and…
Cards on the table, traditional broadcast TV has never been terribly good in the summer. But, let’s be honest, it’s gotten better. Why? Because streaming apps showed the big networks that if you put out quality…
You may have seen this story yesterday and not realized how truly impactful it will be. Sinclair Broadcast Group is already the largest operator of local television stations in the US, with 173 local stations. It’s…
Recently I learned that the FCC is proposing to change a few things in the personal radio service. Some History: At one time, the only free personal radio service was the CB (Citizen Band) radio…
Seriously. In some states, voting data is still stored on paper cards. The technology goes back over 300 years and it’s still going strong today. The paper punched card is a slow, fragile, confusing form of…
Don’t you wish you could look in two directions at the same time? Some of us are lucky enough to live near a major city, where all the broadcast towers are in the same place….
Although I’ve yet to see one in person, The Samsung Galaxy S8 is the most fulfilled expression to date of Steve Jobs’ original vision. Mr. Jobs believed that the devices needed to “disappear” behind the content…
This past Wednesday, Hulu opened up a public beta of its live TV service. To be honest it took me all this time to stop yawning long enough to write this article. I was going to…
Wait, people have landlines? Yeah apparently they do but apparently not for long. I was surprised to run into an article at 9to5Mac of all places saying that for the first time, a majority of households have mobile-only…
Sometimes hardware gets a bit… buggy. I was reminded of this when reading a recent article on io9 about how the PS4 is apparently perfectly designed to attract and retain cockroaches. These roaches set up a nice home inside…
One of the first streaming boxes may finally become the one box to rule them all. Today, news outlets across the internet are reporting that Amazon Video may finally come to the AppleTV, which would make…
There might be one or two, but basically no. For most of us, old-school TV broadcasting is, well, old-school. Since 2009, almost every single TV broadcast in the US has been digital, and the vast…
I may be the last person to buy a flash drive, and I may have bought my last one. Flash drives were the must-have accessory of the early 2000s as we began to need more storage…