Best of the Blog 2012, Volume 2
Here’s even more of the great stuff we found from a few years ago.
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Are batteries obsolete?
Hope so. The one thing that has held back technology more than anything is the battery. Hybrid cars need half a ton of them and just hauling them around takes a lot of energy. They add…
Is it really time for a smart watch?
It’s becoming a story too big to ignore, even though for the most part the products don’t exist yet. We’re talking about smart watches, which are supposedly the next big thing. Everyone is talking about them,…
Best of the Blog 2012, Volume 1
Take a look at the great stuff we found from a few years ago.
FINALLY: DIRECTV releases Android Tablet App
It must seem like an eternity if you’re a Galaxy Tab or other Android Tablet user. How long have you been sitting there watching DIRECTV release update after update for its awesome iPad app while you waited. Wait…
Nielsen ratings to include streaming
Our habits have changed. It’s been two generations since everyone sat down in front of the family’s only television every night to watch something from the major networks. We all got multiple TVs, then computers, then…
Should you uninstall Java now?
It’s a black time for Java. There was a time when Java was an essential part of the World Wide Web experience. It was so pervasive it showed up in unlikely places: Blu-ray disc players and…
Atari files for bankruptcy, finally spends last quarter we gave them in 1983
If you’re part of Generation X,,there are few brand names more etched in your memory than Atari. Sure, Nintendo took the crown from them by the late 1980s, but come on. This is the company…
The return of zombie brands
Westinghouse. Zenith. Emerson. Magnavox. Sylvania. Acoustic Research. These are names you may remember from your youth, and every single one is now just a trademark owned by some other company you’ve never heard of. Most of…
CES 2013: The final story
What a whirlwind. There was so much to see and so little time, we’re sure to have missed something. Good thing that there are a few other blogs out there covering CES. Still, we did our…
CES 2013: (one last article) ShinyBow HDMI products
If you’re looking for matrix switching or video wall control, you want to look at Shinybow. They are a lower profile company, but we’ve partnered with them for years to provide quality switch products for bars and…
CES 2013: No COM1000 to see here
Worth mentioning that I visited the Technicolor booth at CES and there was no COM1000 system in sight. Of course, I wasn’t expecting to see it there either. They were there promoting their more well-known…
AUTO HOP: Hopper with Sling actually won “Best in Show?”
It won, but CBS forced CNET’s editors to change their minds? That’s the report coming through the internet this morning. DISH showed its new Hopper with Sling at CES (we got an exclusive tour) and everyone…
CES 2013: One for the history books
A lot of fun. That’s our verdict on this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In past years, the show had gotten a little boring, a little slow even, especially in years when the Macworld…
CES 2013: Day 3 Wrapup
Wait, this is a consumer electronics show? Today we spent a lot of time in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, where it looked more like a car show than a consumer electronics…