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Online Streaming Future of TV

9 Comments 09 December 2011

Thanks to Apple TV, Roku, Netflix, Hulu and several others, paying for cable is not the hands down popular winner of watching television shows and movies anymore.  Many opt for the $8-$25 amounts for streaming video vs. the $140 that cable wants from you.  There have even been comments made on here before about streaming [...]

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Do you care about SOPA?

4 Comments 08 December 2011

First off, let’s start off by telling you what SOPA is.  SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.  SOPA aims to shut down offshore or sentence an “Internet death penalty” to offshore websites that are accused of hosting American broadcast or media via their sites.  In other words, the site you go to watch Real [...]

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Death of the Compact Disc

3 Comments 07 December 2011

The compact disc, most familiarly known as CD, has been a hot item since it first appeared on the scene in the 1980s.  Originally developed to store data and playback audio files, the CD has proved to be a necessity to many.  However, time moves on and things evolve.  Just as I was picking at [...]

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Innovation kills jobs

7 Comments 06 December 2011

I will go ahead and put it out there that I love technology.  I don’t care so much for the prices all the time, but I love reading about ingenuity and changes to past tech toys.  I recently read an article (forgive me – I cannot find it) that discussed how innovation was killing jobs. [...]

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Free Texting hurts Mobile Providers

5 Comments 05 December 2011

Many people enjoy texting more so than actually talking on the phone.  Mobile carriers now this which is why they charge anywhere between $5 and $20 for texting on top of your data and voice plans.  As with all features, there are always options to wiggle around such treasonary charges. Below are a few apps [...]

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Web Browser Wars

20 Comments 19 August 2011

When the internet came into fruition there were only a few browsers available.  Netscape and Internet Explorer dominated the scene for a long time.  Netscape eventually took a big dive and opened up space for other competitors to enter the marketplace. When that space opened up a ton of players entered the space.  Today, the [...]

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Will Netflix Price Hike Bring Blockbuster Back?

5 Comments 18 August 2011

I bailed on Blockbuster for Netflix in December of 2010 and never looked back.  To me Netflix was a one stop replacement for my inexplicably high cable bill.  Netflix gave me the ability to instantly stream content to my PS3, Blu-Ray player, phone, and tablet PC.  I was also able to a DVD in the [...]

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Are Mac Users Smarter Than Windows Users?

7 Comments 17 August 2011

A few years ago Apple launched a marketing campaign aimed at it’s #1 rival in the PC market…Windows.  The message was simple.  Mac users are younger, more interesting, and smarter than Windows users.  The ads were relatively harmless and funny (even to Windows users).  I, for one, didn’t think much of them until I saw [...]

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Have Smartphones Replaced Computers?

18 Comments 16 August 2011

It seems like technology changes the way we do things everyday.  It wasn’t long ago that a cell phone with a QWERTY keyboard, data connection, calendar, and a web browser was a revolutionary piece of hardware.  Needless to say times have changed. Android OS (#1 in market share), Apple IOS (#2), Symbian (#3), and Blackberry [...]

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Will Google+ Give Facebook A Run For It’s Money?

5 Comments 15 August 2011

  In early July 2011 Google entered the crowded social media space treading where many others have already gone.  The social media space already has Twitter, YouTube, Blackplanet, Classmates.com, Digg, Reddit, Flixster, Foursquare, LinkedIn, MySpace, StumbleUpon, and Xanga. There’s another one out there floating around that I seem to be forgetting the name of.  It [...]

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