Monday - January 5, 2009
Well, this is CES week, and I am eagerly waiting to fly to Las Vegas, participate in the Tiger Build Your Own PC race, and spend the following three weeks relearning how to walk. This year should be interesting because I'm getting weekly notices that the hotels are lowering room rates, and one of the vendors is letting me use one of its pre-paid rooms for free. This suggests a show like the last Comdex, where I'll actually have a great time but folks will wonder whether it is the last CES. This week I'll talk about what I expect to see.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Picture yet another Windows vs. Mac ad, with the dweeby PC guy and the ultracool Mac dude engaging in their usual schtick. Now picture a Jimmy Carter-esque peacemaker parachuting into the shot, getting the two to shake hands, and you'll understand the rationale behind HP's new class of MediaSmart home servers.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Most home networks are cobbled together without a lot of forethought about which devices are used to create it. For most, the decision is basically to use whatever their service provider shipped in a cardboard box. Whether they're going for wireless or wired, homeowners often haven't thought through their options.
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Monday - December 22, 2008
A wall here, a door there. A sunroom stretching out from the back of the house, just so. Recessed lighting in the kitchen. A custom-designed fireplace in the living room. And outside, a deck, a curving walkway, and a strategic planting of a few yews and Japanese maples. If playing with such details of home, interior and landscape design sounds like a good time to you, you're not alone.
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Sunday - December 21, 2008
There was no landslide winner as the most important tech product of 2008. But amidst the most challenging economic storm in decades, you could make a case for viable candidates. Smartphones, especially Apple's iPhone 3G, got smarter, buoyed by the brand-new iTunes App Store. Portable and inexpensive laptops, dubbed "netbooks," got smaller, cheaper and more ubiquitous.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
Even as technology threatens the survival of video rental stores, serial entrepreneur Stuart Skorman thinks there's still a place for the movie-matchmaking advice of veteran video store clerks. To prove his point, Skorman hired more than 20 former video store clerks to pour their collective wisdom into a new Internet search engine, ClerkDogs, that's being unleashed Tuesday.
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Friday - December 5, 2008
The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night. Two satellite glitches blacked out the broadcast to theaters in Boston, New York and Los Angeles in the first half of the game between the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers.
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Monday - December 1, 2008
A variety of retail-watching experts are churning out Black Friday sales facts, figures and customer inclinations, and while it wasn't a rip-roaring Black Friday compared to previous years, it wasn't all that bad -- particularly for the hot-selling consumer electronics sector.
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Friday - November 28, 2008
Blockbuster on Tuesday threw its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of set-top boxes with the announcement of a deal with hardware maker 2Wire. Blockbuster's system will bring video directly to viewers' televisions on demand via a broadband Internet connection. The move follows similar offerings from competitors.
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Tuesday - November 25, 2008
Movie rental giant Blockbuster announced Tuesday it has teamed with hardware maker 2Wire to launch a content delivery service on the 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player. The set-top box will provide users with direct access to Blockbuster OnDemand content via their televisions. The small set-top box works with either WiFi or a wired broadband connection.
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Monday - November 24, 2008
It was an interesting week last week, made even more interesting by a bunch of news services calling our U.S. president-elect either the new Hitler or a Marxist, suggesting these folks got some really bad eggnog. This should be filed under NOT HELPING. While tempted, I'll avoid further mentioning that insanity in the hope they sober up and instead focus on some interesting tech moves.
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