Archive for the 'television' Category

Burning the Macworld Oil

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

With Macworld Expo in San Francisco approaching, the rumor mill is working overtime along with developers feverishly constructing demos and beta versions of new applications.

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OnHollywood: The Weird Turn Pro

Friday, May 4th, 2007

At the OnHollywood conference, Arianna Huffington and Carson Daly were the most visible representatives of the professional media that has taken the plunge into blogging and video channeling; but the true stars are the geeks and weirdos that have turned professional.

Posted in music, business, internet industry, weird, television, videos, humor, Hollywood, virtual reality, media, blogging, podcasting, social networks, events | 1 Comment »

Apple TV Smokes the Competition

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Apple TV is a hardware node of the iTunes platform, but it is capable of much more than its current features — Apple can extend the feature set pretty easily through updates to
the onboard software. Apple TV works with PCs and Macs transparently, taking advantage of whatever broadband connection you have — and giving it an edge over traditional VOD services and the XBox 360.

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The Mothers of Invention at Apple

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Rumors about Apple are swirling a week after Steve Jobs’ open letter to the music industry (for an excellent summary of reactions, see Engadget’s “DRM: the state of disrepair” by Thomas Ricker). But several developments warrant particular attention:
1. Apple is patenting wireless docking. According to AppleInsider, Apple is developing a dock connector for handheld gadgets […]

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