About a billion years ago, I had this phone. Loved it, too. It had user-customizable ringtones, games, speed dials, changeable skins, and probably most importantly it lasted about a week on a charge and could take…
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It’s been over six months since DIRECTV announced that it will have streaming services for customers who don’t want to get satellite TV. Am I the only one who’s getting antsy? Several sites have reported AT&T exec Randall…
Call your boss a “bitter old man” and he’ll punish you. How else can you explain Stuart Sweet going to Dallas with the rest of the blog team… just not me? The Custom Electronics Design &…
We’re on the verge of the fall television season. This is the time we’re supposed to get interested in the new slate of shows rolling out… I’ve already explained that there’s not a lot to love this…
Ya let us down, Spike!
Jump the Shark. It’s a term that’s been around 20 years or so and it generally means, “that moment when a TV show stops being worth watching.” The idea is that there’s some fundamental change in…
Not that long ago, I had the pleasure of getting my hands on one of these: You’d be forgiven if you thought this was a publicity still from 50 years ago. (You would not be forgiven if you…
How many apps do you load into your phone in the average week? How about in the average month? Chances are unless you just got a new phone that number’s pretty small. I have been hearing…
In his iconic Hollywood vs. America, author Michael Medved argued that the entertainment industry’s addiction to sex and violence would eventually destroy it because the values espoused in movies were increasingly not those of regular folks. Movies…
So, this happened. A reporter from The New York Times tried cord-cutting and didn’t like it. It took a few days for me to read through all my e-mails and I want to thank all of you who…
I was raised on science fiction television. Surprised? I didn’t think you were. When I was a kid I couldn’t tell you what the local football team was doing but I could sure tell you what…
There are a great many mysteries in the universe: The mysteries of Stonehenge, Easter Island, why people watch TV shows about the Kardashians, is there extraterrestrial life out there, and if there is, do they…
Used to be, money was money. Rich people had it, and when they paid for things, they gave you cash. Sure, there was credit but not really like we think of it today. By the mid-20th…
My first media streaming device was basically a Netflix machine. I don’t recall using any other streaming service on it, and in fact, I’m pretty sure there was no other streaming service available for it. But…
Right off the bat, I want to tell you that my thoughts here come from reading an article at Jezebel where they report on the petition signed by 180 recording artists asking for some reforms of the Digital Millennium…