You may have noticed that when I talk about TV over the Internet, I haven’t been talking about Google TV or the like. Instead, I’ve been focusing on “media extenders” like the Apple TV, Roku, and the various Internet-equipped Blu-Ray DVD players. The main reason is the elephant in the room: “When will Apple announce [...]
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Waiting on the Real Apple TV
May 20th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Apple · Business · Entertainment · HDTV · Internet · Media Extender · Network · Video
Will the Google Chrome Web browser come to Apple’s iPads and iPhones?
May 15th, 2012 · No Comments
Macquarie (USA) Equities Research, a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, is speculating that Google will be bringing its popular Chrome Web browser to Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod iOS. Will Google do this? And, perhaps the more important question, “Will Apple let them do this?” Macquarie’s analysts argue that [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · SmartPhone · Tablet · Web browser
The six best personal cloud storage choices for your stuff
April 9th, 2012 · Comments Off
Recently, Dropbox the popular cloud-storage company doubled the amount of free space you got for inviting friends to Dropbox. How much is that? For every friend you’d invite who installed Dropbox, you’d both get 500 more MBs of free space. With a free account, you can invite up to 32 people for a grand total [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · Google · Infrastructure · Microsoft · Storage
Apple says 100% iPad recharge “problem” is by design
March 28th, 2012 · Comments Off
o believe Apple about its iPad 3 battery problem or not to believe Apple is the question. In a story by Ina Fried at AllThingsD, Apple VP Michael Tchao explained that while the iPad–and iPhone and iPod Touch—display as 100% charged before the device is actually 100% charged, it’s because they’re constantly charging to 100 [...]
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Batterygate: Apple’s dysfunctional iPad 3 battery charger
March 26th, 2012 · Comments Off
Dr. Raymond Soneira, president of DisplayMate, the world’s leading display and display tuning company, found while testing the iPad 3’s display, “that the batteries do not actually reach full charge when 100% is shown and need up to an extra hour before the charging is done. After further investigation, Soneira has discovered, “when the battery [...]
Tags: Apple · Business · Infrastructure · Tablet