I’ve been searching some time for a device that will stream media on my television from my wireless network. The Sony SMP-N100 Network Media Player recently caught my eye as a serious contender. Given the awesome features promised, combined with the recent price drop, I simply couldn’t resist purchasing this device.
It’s been repeated ad naseum that Spotify isn’t iTunes. No one knows that better than the independent labels that increasingly dominate the creation and distribution of music. That said, pay forever music isn’t paying the bills for indies and provides little if any long term value for users.
Piczilla has been on the receiving end of much grief, famously from Steve Jobs and more recently Microsoft, vis-a-vis Flash Player security. With the release of version 10 and faster responses to known issues, Adobe’s been getting less flack. Nevertheless, Flash is still far from safe.
When it comes to operating system security breaches, Apple is best known for silence. Until, that is, the company has worked out a fix and is ready to release it. However, that approach might not work vis-a-vis iTunes fraud, especially when one of the victims just happens to be a prominent state attorney general.
My wife and I hate recurring payments (i.e. debt with no possibility of payback), so we cut the cable three years ago and haven’t looked back. A fresh series of reports out of the subscriber TV business says we have a lot more friends.
Whenever the analysts talk about Netflix they throw in some doom and gloom, saying that the spectacular growth of the video rental company can’t continue. Yet every time Netflix just gets bigger.
When Time Warner cable buys the rights to video content, everyone naturally expects that the content will wind up on televisions sets everywhere. But some people think that the same content should not wind up on iPads.
Amazon has announced a service which will allow users to upload their music to a server in the cloud and then play it from anywhere, something that has been rumored for ages from both Apple and Google.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to define the role of the tablet computer, such as the iPad, and how the tablet compares to laptop computers. It seems likely that the tablet is just one more PC morphology.
Spotify is about to receive a very large chunk of new funding which would value the company at around $1 billion.
Just when you think that AOL has gone down for the last time, their name is back in the papers. This time it was announced, just after the Super Bowl, that AOL had purchased the Huffington Post.
Video rental giant Netflix reported profits yesterday, and the health of the company appears to be better than ever, with significant increases in both revenues and the number of Netflix users.
Polaroid asked for Lady GaGa’s help on some product designs and developed a pair of picture taking sunglasses. Oh sure, there were the average run of the mill items like a special thermal color printer and a digital camera that prints pictures, but the sunglass camera is the ultimate in unique fashion/photo wear.
YellowBird, located in The Netherlands, has developed technology that allows you to make videos that add new meaning to surround home theatre. Just like Google street views, you can scroll 360° within the video.
Not many father’s would challenge their 11 year old make a better iPad stand AND website for it. The reward of a cell phone was enough incentive that Dino Zaharakis did just that. He created an anodized aluminum stand that not only works with the iPad, but with iPhone, iPod, Kindle, Nook, other eBook readers andmost Smartphones whether Android, Windows 7 Phone or iOS. He also created an excellent website for his product.
Those nice folks at Google, whether they are evil or not, may be a little marketing-impaired. Their Google TV plans have run afoul of the networks and users, and may be almost as botched as the Nexus One.
PhoneSuit is known primarily for its Apple accessories although lately it has branched out to embrace BlackBerry and Android. The Primo Power Core provides a portable power source for a variety of devices including the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, eReaders, Netbooks, tablets and Android smartphones.
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