More than 70 percent of U.S. broadband customers are happy with their overall service, according to Leichtman Research Group. And just 26 percent are “very interested” in receiving faster speeds at home. Which means that big, bold fiber efforts aren’t supported by today’s consumer demand. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
SlingPlayer — the fastest and latest version — has landed on Android phones. To watch your home TV anywhere you are, Android-style, all it takes is a Slingbox connected to your home TV system and the slickest-ever version of SlingPlayer Mobile loaded on your phone. Read More »
Consumers want notebooks with high performance and good battery life. Acer has released a new line of notebooks that attempts to deliver good performance while providing 8 hours of battery life. The TimelineX series of notebooks comes in four sizes to appeal to a broad audience. Read More »
On June 7, I embarked on a trip to Europe. I debated whether I wanted to take my iPad or my hackintosh’d Dell Mini 9. In the end, I went with the iPad. Read More »
Visor is a neat way to make the terminal in Mac OS X universally accessible via a hotkey. It’s useful because it means you can jump to the terminal without moving your hands from the keyboard, regardless of which application you happen to be using. Read More »
Summer is just around the corner, but you can’t just shirk your responsibilities. Don’t worry, there’s a way you can get out, enjoy the summer and stay productive. Set up remote access from LogMeIn now, and you’ll be in business, wherever you are, all summer. Read More »
Beef up your iPad’s capabilities with LogMeIn Ignition. With just a simple touch, you can control your work or home computer –- including your applications, files, emails and databases, even programs not supported by iPad or iPhone — turning such devices into powerful business tools. Read More »
Today on the Net: Comcast and NBC Universal received the blessing of ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates — but with some conditions, Brand.net raised $14 million amidst some strong sales growth and Dish has dropped four Disney HD channels due to a carriage dispute Read More »
Unlike so many others in the media, we decided not to charge for what we’d already been giving away for free. Instead we developed GigaOM Pro, a subscription-only research service. That was only a year ago — look how far it’s already come. Read More »
Adobe announced availability of Flash Player 10.1 for mobile partners, barely meeting prior expectations for a mid-year delivery. But for most end users, Adobe hasn’t delivered anything today. The longer it takes to get Flash on phones, the more its fate is out of Adobe’s hands. Read More »
SlingPlayer — the fastest and latest version — has landed on Android phones. To watch your home TV anywhere you are, Android-style, all it takes is a Slingbox connected to your home TV system and the slickest-ever version of SlingPlayer Mobile loaded on your phone. Read More »
Esquire has done what it calls a “semi-scientific” analysis of tweets about the World Cup and said it found nothing of importance beyond score updates and the kind of outburst you might hear in a bar. But is that really any surprise? It’s a conversational medium. Read More »
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