While desperately searching for the snooze button on my HTC Droid Incredible this morning, I found the most welcome and unexpected sight: a popup notification that Android’s 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) upgrade was ready to be pushed to my phone. After the upgrade was completed (and my impromptu early morning happy dance), I tried the new version […]
Looks like Netflix is in for some hard times, folks. Having followed through with their 60 percent hike in prices, Starz Entertainment, one of their earliest and largest content providers, took advantage of the moment, choosing the first day of the price increase to make a big announcement. From Market Watch: Shares of Netflix Inc. […]
We talked about the big change to Netflix’s pricing structure back in mid-July, and it’s finally time for those changes to take place. Instead of offering unlimited streaming with any DVD plan, the company will offer streaming as a separate plan, effective September 1, 2011. What does this mean for you? There are three scenarios, […]
Today’s relic is a novelty telephone from 1984. It’s so sophisticated, you guys. It was sculptured by a European artist. They don’t say who the artist was, but what a talent!
This just in from Business Wire: Letter from Steve Jobs CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, […]
For years now, it’s been drilled into our heads that good security is an important part of a desktop computer. While we know that the same holds true for mobile devices, there seems to be some disconnect between this fact and the way we use our devices. Whether the wireless nature of the technology gives […]
Last night I watched this video from a July 2011 TED Talk. My jaw is still on the floor. In July 2011, Dr. Harald Haas, Professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh School of Engineering/Institute of Digital Communications, for the first time publically demonstrated Light Fidelity (Li-Fi), a method of Visible Light Communication […]
It was a telephone that looked like a football! Back in the days when telephones all looked alike and were made to blend in rather than stand out, here was creativity, here was design!
Fashion designer and marketing provocateur Kenneth Cole has opened a new website that he says is aimed at raising social and political issues to foster discussion. Long known for socially conscious advertisements, Cole’s Where Do You Stand continues that tradition online. Or does it? Cole’s team has worked hard to give the website a slick, […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. Remember the days of the early internet when you could pretty much count […]
