If you’re over the age of 30 you may not be aware of a huge undercurrent shift that’s taking place and that shift has everything to do with the future of cable television. The fact is that a huge percentage of our populace below the age of 30 have virtually no interest in anything on […]

Google is releasing a new product called Google Drive. It’s going to be their take on the phenomenon that is Dropbox. Yes, there are other competitors as well—including Microsoft‘s SkyDrive—but none of them matter other than Dropbox. If you haven’t gotten into Dropbox yet then you’re not very techie and don’t know what you’re missing. […]

I just picked up a Roku 2 XS.  For those of you that have no idea what this is, it’s a little squarish box that streams content to your TV. I’ve been looking at products from this company for quite some time. Roku has been developing similar devices for years now and the “2” is […]

I’m a big Netflix fan. The concept is clearly representative of where we’re all heading even if that future doesn’t specifically involve Netflix themselves. Streaming video on demand is what most everyone has been looking for since the first modem showed up decades ago. It was just a matter of time and bandwidth.Now that Netflix […]

Windows with an on/off switch: a new technology dynamically changes whether windows allow heat to pass through or not, while not impacting the light let in. Free singing telegrams through the end of this year from Western Union! (with a new technological twist) Follow-up to the Murder of Mosquitoes: “Genetic Genocide” details the risks and ethical quandaries […]

Business Section: The dawn of catvertising: “What can cat videos do for YOUR business?” Nuns as gun-totin’ shareholder activists pushing companies to do the right thing (PS: Those are metaphorical guns.  PPS: Googling “Nuns with Guns” is NSFW, which I guess shouldn’t have surprised me.) Retailers force their employees to work the Thanksgiving Holiday as they vie […]

I’ve spent my entire adult life enamored with technology and mainly by computers. Much of my vocational career has been dominated by computing and my hobbies are intricately intertwined with them. My first computing experience was on a friend’s Apple II system back in the late 1970’s and continuing on into the early 1980’s. The […]

This morning I got an interesting e-mail from the CEO of Netflix including both an apology and an explanation of what they’ve been up to. Clearly things are very volatile at that company these days. The letter laid out the break-up of Netflix into two companies. Netflix will continue on as a streaming-only company (at least […]

There’s been much made over the issue of the emergence of what’s being called “cloud computing”. Essentially the concept is a bit hazy on the definition with much of it focusing on two key elements: The data involved being stored remotely on a service’s servers and the concept of browser-based server-side applications instead of client-side […]

Google is renowned for hiring only the best of the best but the following situation will demonstrate clearly that sometimes the best and the brightest can be about as dim as a reading light on two-year-old batteries. First a bit of background. I’m not a huge text message guy. I came to text messaging a […]

Today there’s a story in one of the major papers about how everyone—Google, Apple, Netflix and so many others—are putting a ton of investment and faith in the future of “the cloud”. However, they’re concerned because the various ISP’s and wireless providers are all seemingly headed towards a business model based on limits or caps […]

One of the trends that seems to be taking major hold is the growing reality of a short commercial with virtually every single piece of video you encounter on virtually any site these days (other than YouTube-type videos). The main problem with this is that, in many cases, the video I’m interested in is as […]