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Apple takes another crack at invading the living room by dealing with cable operators

Apple takes another crack at invading the living room by dealing with cable operators

An unwillingness to "sleep with the enemy" may be behind cable companies' reluctance to deal with Apple, but that isn't...

The Evolution of Television

The Evolution of Television

You can walk into almost any room and you're likely to spot a flat-screen humming with bright apps and streaming...

Understanding the differences in High-Def formats

Understanding the differences in High-Def formats

High definition videos have been a hot topic for years. With plasma televisions and HD video recorders filling our houses...

A lack of social media understanding is killing @RickSantorum and @NewtGingrich in the primaries

A lack of social media understanding is killing @RickSantorum and @NewtGingrich in the primaries

Assuming that Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination to take on Barack Obama in November, most will attribute his success...

Has Disney been watching the news? ABC renews Netflix contract.

Has Disney been watching the news? ABC renews Netflix contract.

The wagons are circled at the Netflix camp as hundreds of thousands of subscribers cancelled in the last few months,...

Why Netflix Will Control “Big Telecom” (or die trying)

Why Netflix Will Control “Big Telecom” (or die trying)

There are only two viable scenarios that will come to pass in the near future when it comes to home...

2011: Hollywood Destroys Ownership. 2012: The World?

2011: Hollywood Destroys Ownership. 2012: The World?

You might think that 2011 will be all about how the amazing the iPad 2 or iPhone 5 will be....

Google TV Suffers Another Setback

Google TV Suffers Another Setback

If you were expecting to see various television makers unveil their offerings for Google TV at the Consumer Electronics Show...

Americans Spent As Much Time On The Internet As They Did On Television In 2010

Americans Spent As Much Time On The Internet As They Did On Television In 2010

Newspapers are not dead, despite every effort by many (including newspaper publishers) to kill them. That may have been the...

Sony Releases PS2/HDTV Combo Five Years After Anyone Gives A Crap

Sony Releases PS2/HDTV Combo Five Years After Anyone Gives A Crap

Yeah, so, uh... it may please you to know that Sony has just released an HDTV with a built-in PlayStation...

Beating the Game — Ditching Pay TV

Beating the Game — Ditching Pay TV

If you enjoy adrenaline-filled racing, bone-crushing tackles, mind-blowing saves, and earth-shattering home runs, chances are pretty good that you have...

Lights Out for Kimmel – Talk Show Host Breaks Out His Webcam

Lights Out for Kimmel – Talk Show Host Breaks Out His Webcam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1rRGUTB6OY Here's a weird one. Last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live! was all the more live: due to a power outage...

Five Things Old Media Still Don’t Get About The Web

Five Things Old Media Still Don’t Get About The Web

Today the internet seems to have changed the information aspect, it just actually smashed the monopoly of the old media....

The Next Apple TV May Cost $99 and Not Suck

The Next Apple TV May Cost $99 and Not Suck

Now this is interesting. Hey, remember Apple TV? No, I don't blame you. Man, Apple TV sucked so hard. Apparently,...

Sharp To Enter 3D TV Market This Summer

Sharp To Enter 3D TV Market This Summer

Japan's Sharp Corp has announced that the company will begin offering 3D-capable LCD televisions later this summer in Japan. Sharp...

Trend of T.V. Parenting Shifting to the iPad

Trend of T.V. Parenting Shifting to the iPad

I can definitely remember many mornings spent sitting in front of the t.v. It's flickering glow keeping me warm and...

3D Internet From Firefox Looms Large on the Horizon

3D Internet From Firefox Looms Large on the Horizon

In 2007 the team at Mozilla, who produce FireFox, jumped into the 3D graphic realm by offering a plug-in that...

Crisis on Infinite Google Earths – A Virtual World That Might Not Suck

Crisis on Infinite Google Earths – A Virtual World That Might Not Suck

I’m an avid gamer. When I say ‘avid’, I mean it in all possible terms. I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve...

Analyst Claims Apple Plans iTunes-Happy HDTV

Analyst Claims Apple Plans iTunes-Happy HDTV

The iPad is just one of a series of futuristic devices Apple plans as it stakes an ever-larger slice of...

Simultaneous TV and Internet Usage Increases, Proves A Point

Simultaneous TV and Internet Usage Increases, Proves A Point

Are you watching TV while surfing the net? Chances are pretty good that you have, and if so, you are...