Random photo of people under 35 found on the internet Disclaimer: I am not a Millennial. Millennials are that group born after 1980 who have defined popular culture with their attachment to mobile devices and penchant…
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It’s been an evolutionary year for DIRECTV but that’s not a bad thing. Where 2011 and 2012 saw a flurry of new products including the Genie DVR and client, THR22 TiVo, iPad app, GenieGo, and Wireless…
The 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show is coming January 7-10 and we’ll be there! Of course we’ll have our normal small reporting staff and we’ll be blogging our little brains out trying to match engadget’s two busloads of…
It was the year that wasn’t. 2013 turned out to be a mostly evolutionary year for handset manufacturers, while people’s tastes solidified with just a few major players. Let’s take a look back. The players on…
DIRECTV’s Investor Day is going on now and we’re watching the live feed. We’ll be posting updates during the day that are being shown. Keep refreshing the page and we’ll post updates as we have them….
For years and years I used my phones without any kind of password protection. I would see folks unlocking their phones every time they took them out to do anything. It seemed like a bit of…
Yeah, that’s me. Mister Satellite Geek. I wonder if there is a twelve step program for people like me. I think that I’m past the point of being an enthusiast… I believe I may have a…
Every year we see bigger and brighter TVs and they get closer and closer to production. Where once we saw 84″ TVs that never looked like they would see the light of day, 110″ models are…
Or: Why Linkedin needs to cut it out already. Yes, there are some people who choose not to participate in social networks. While even grandparents have somehow learned the value of Facebook, other networks have…
When is a sale not a sale? Although it’s been widely reported that Samsung sold 800,000 of its new Galaxy Gear smartwatch, there’s no evidence that all those watches are actually in customer hands (or… wrists in this…
They say that all good things must end, someday. That day for most Blockbuster Video stores will be sometime in January. DISH has issued a press release saying that all company owned stores, as well as…
Curved screens on phones. Curved screens on TVs. It seems like everyone is gaga over curved screens all of a sudden. Is this a flash in the pan or is it a real thing? Curved screens…
OK, not everything. You won’t be able to surf or text below 10,000 feet. You won’t be able to make phone calls, period. But, if your device has an “airplane mode”, if it’s smaller than a…
Here we go… Major broadcast networks are taking the Aereo fight right to the top. Reuters reports that the four US networks filed a request to have the Supreme Court hear the case of whether or not Aereo’s novel…
With all the talk of antenna TV and all the articles on this blog, I realized it had been years since I’d spent an entire day without a DVR. Maybe even as long as a decade,…