In this episode, the pundits discuss Arizona’s proposed law that potentially could make profanity on the net a crime, Apple and Google help law enforcement bypass your lock screen, another Facebook issue when a teacher’s aide is suspended because she wouldn’t provide access to her Facebook account, proposed legislation in the House that would have prevented...
Rumor has it that Apple is not only developing an Apple Television (not to be confused with the Apple TV) but also plans to launch a unique video streaming service along with it. Apparently a year ago, Steve Jobs approached CBS about a content deal, which the CEO of CBS, Leslie Moonves, turned down....
Google Music is no longer in beta and is currently free to store up to 20,000 songs for you. Just go to http://music.google.com, sign up using a Google account and away you go. You can download their music manager software which will scan your iTunes library (or other folders, etc.) providing you with a...
The shift was happening – consumers started cutting the cord and finding their entertainment online. Netflix saw the shift and ramped up their streaming services. Amazon launched their video on-demand service. Of course, the first obstacle to overcome was the consumer had to watch the content not on their television, but on their computer....
Netflix started out in 1997 or so delivering only DVDs, and I have become accustomed to it since I subscribed sometime in 2003. As of late, there are still not nearly as many movies available over Netflix’s streaming services as there are on DVD. If the movie companies would allow every movie and TV...
I can’t recall the last time that a company made a big announcement where their customer base went “huh?” and then just a few weeks later the company decides “that wasn’t a very bright idea, now was it?” Netflix, which announced some time back that they would be splitting the DVD by mail service...
First they decided to double the cost of the services by splitting out the streaming versus DVD rentals and now they’ve gone for the WTF moment by peeling off the DVD rental business as a separately named company, Qwikster. So, we’re curious how this affects you and your interaction with Netflix.
Article first published as The Haves and the Have Nots on Technorati. I was watching television last night, rather sleepily, but watching nonetheless. It was the summer finale of one my wife’s favorite shows – Rizzoli and Isles. Several times during the commercial breaks, TNT was touting its online video streaming service where you...
Wal-Mart has long been the nation’s leading seller of DVD’s, but hot on the heals of Netflix announcing price hikes to their service (splitting of the streaming and DVD packages), Wal-Mart has decided to get into the streaming business themselves. The writing should have been on the wall when Wal-Mart purchased Vudu, a Silicon...
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