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Growing number of homes choose broadband + broadcast TV

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:07 +0000

More than nine in 10 homes pay for cable television. However, with new economic realities and a competitive climate change is in the air. Whereas cable’s share has decline, the number of homes with broadband internet continues to rise and, interestingly, many of those with fast internet are choosing to get television the [...] Related posts:

This is future of watching the Super Bowl

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:14:12 +0000

How far has world come in 45 years? Believe or not, the television audience for the first Super Bowl in 1967 totaled more than 51 million people — it was broadcast (few people had cable back then) on both NBC and CBS. For latest iteration of the event, over 111 million watched on [...] Related posts:

Whatever happened to Pottermore

Susan Wilson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:43:00 +0000

The website announced by J.K. Rowling back in July has yet to come out of beta. That means [...] Related posts:

Spotify’s freemium model comes good

Dave Parrack — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:46:16 +0000

Spotify continues to go from strength to strength. Proving its freemium model is the correct one for the business.

Spotify has now racked up more than 3 million subscribers. It hit 1 million in March 2011, 2 million in September 2011, and [...] Related posts:

Yawn: First commercial Super Wi-Fi network goes live

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:08:55 +0000

Here is a technology that’s both long on promise and, disappointingly, even longer in the time it’s taking to roll out. Whereas there are some notable White Space Television (WSTV) network deployments, including one just launched in a mid-size North Carolina city, the fact that you can count all of them with fingers [...] Related posts:

Megaupload’s Dotcom – The battle begins

Dave Parrack — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:26:18 +0000

The founder of Megaupload, a digital locker service taken down by the feds last week, has appeared in court in New Zealand. And so begins the long legal battle we’re all gearing up for.

The legal battle to bring Kim [...] Related posts:

Cloud services are vying for government business

Susan Wilson — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:33:48 +0000

While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, [...] Related posts:

Over 90 million reasons to join Google+

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:07:50 +0000

There’s no question Google’s going all-in with its new social networking service. There are search, promotional and advertising tie ins that are designed to pull us in and keep within searchzilla’s warm embrace, but can Google succeed where so many others have failed?

Facebook claims that it has 800 million users with [...] Related posts:

Does Apple own Steve Jobs’ likeness?

Dave Parrack — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:02:45 +0000

Does Apple own Steve Jobs’ likeness? Or perhaps the question should be, Can Apple own Steve Jobs’ likeness?

A Chinese company by the name of In Icons has created an action figure of Steve Jobs. A scarily accurate action [...] Related posts:

RIP IE6: 2001-2012

John Lister — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:00:18 +0000

Microsoft has officially declared Internet Explorer 6 dead — in the United States at least. The 11-year-old browser has been a major security risk in recent years, but looks to be doomed in the coming months.

The declaration comes as new data shows that less than [...] Related posts: