Yeah, you know these. You’ll find them in restaurants that call themselves “gastropubs” or some other made up thing. They look like they were hanging in a barn in 1910, and are most often found today…
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As if you needed convincing. With market share well under 5%, it’s a safe bet you don’t even see anyone with a Windows Phone in an average day. It’s Apple and Android, Android and Apple all…
It’s been called the second golden age of TV. Led by premium channels and streaming services, the last 5-7 years have seen a massive increase in so-called “quality TV.” While the 2000s gave us a steady…
About, oh, 15 years ago the more forward thinking and geeky among us started putting the pieces together. What if you could combine wireless networking, low power, cellular technology, and basic information in a really durable…
The subject of satellite taxes comes up over and over. If you’re in Massachusetts, Florida, Utah, or one of the seven states that currently have a satellite tax, you see it on your bill. You may…
Bluetooth ought to be the perfect solution. It’s been evolving for decades and in its latest incarnation, it works with very low power and provides secure communication between devices that has, as yet, proven difficult to…
Today’s teens, born in the final days when you could watch Friends on Thursday night, have grown up with a very different view of the world. It goes without saying that they have constant access to information, that…
The new fall season has started and that means my DVR is getting full again. This year, though, I’m passing on the usual crop of cop dramas and I’ve chosen a spate of sitcoms. I tried this…
Google’s recent logo redesign has me thinking about a lot of things, like how bad logo design has gotten and why that doesn’t matter. I started by thinking about how Google wasn’t even a word 15…
Way back in… well six months ago, it was hard to talk about bundling when you talked about DIRECTV. While the company did (and still does) have some deals with internet service providers and cell phone…
The color buttons are gone but it still works the same.
A lot of older schools have them… but a lot of newer ones don’t. Back in the 1990s and 2000s a lot of new schools were built and for the most part no one ever thought…
The other day I was having a discussion that became a little more heated than it should be. The subject was that perennial fight… whether or not we will ever see truly a la carte programming….
The other day as I was riding in a hybrid car and getting information on my smartphone, I thought about the future. Sure, there’s no doubt that if we think about it, the future is now….
It’s coming. There’s a new weapon in the never ending battle to keep you from copying your content. It’s called HDCP 2.2, and it’s the best hope yet for content providers to stop worrying that someone…