Here it is CES time and we’re getting bombarded with announcements about wearable technology. It seems that the industry as a whole has decided that wearables like watches and glasses are “the next big thing” that…
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DISH kicks off its presence at the International CES with two announcements sure to excite the DISH faithful. First is the Vitrual Joey, which is an app that will run on 2014 LG Smart TVs and…
The current TV model is a ticking time bomb. Aside from the fact that content providers seem intent on trampling the golden goose with triple-digit price increases, Millennials increasingly view linear broadcast TV as something for…
The buzz of the day is that Google plans to show off its VP9 codec at CES2014. This will allow for 4K YouTube streaming and supposedly it will use much less bandwidth than previous codecs, allowing more people…
Yesterday, I listed my 5 hopes for the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. Today I’d like to talk about my 5 “nopes” — the things that I dread seeing, and wish that the manufacturers would just stop talking…
In this case we don’t know who it was… but good-old nails were invented by someone in the 1860s. It wasn’t really the nail itself that was invented but the machine to make them. You see,…
A while back, I wrote an article for another publication called “The Chromebooks are coming.” If you still haven’t seen a Chromebook, don’t feel badly; it probably just means you haven’t visited Best Buy or one…
It’s official, I have no idea what is going on in their heads. I’ll admit to having been critical of Sprint over the years. As a long-distance company, they were all right, but it’s been…
The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show is about a week away and it’s time to publish my list of five “hopes” for this year’s show. This will be my sixth CES as an attendee, and the first…
Ah, December 31. The only day of the year that we even remember that “auld” is a word. So full of hope for the future, so full of wistful remembrance of the past. We’ve talked about…
Not ashamed to admit when I’m wrong. For years I’ve been telling people that DIRECTV only sends 1080p signals with pay-per-view movies. It’s been pointed out to me that there is one channel that broadcasts in…
Easy answer, actually. Most folks, believe it or not, are just fine with one or at most two remotes. A lot of equipment comes with some sort of “universal” remote that has a better than average…
It’s déjà vu all over again. –Yogi Berra Oh, and how we thought we were done with the most overhyped and ultimately annoying story of 2013. Softbank “won,” DISH “lost,” and Sprint went on to…
This article was going to be called “the year in TV.” But really there was only one story as far as TV was concerned, and it was Breaking Bad. In 2013, nothing else mattered anywhere near as much….
Arguably the biggest tech story of 2013 was the end of the PC juggernaut. Personal computer sales, which were utterly nonexistent in 1973,grew year-over-year for longer than most folks have been alive. The growth in PCs…