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Kindle Fire Costs Apple Perhaps a Billion Dollars in December
Remember when I told you this past December 27th that none of my friends were buying Apple gadgets this holiday season? Well it turns out that across the industry the trend towards avoiding Apple has turned into 3 million or...
Blackberry Playbook Price Drop to $299 Crashes Servers
Blackberry has just reduced the price the Playbook to $299 regardless of model – meaning you can get a fully functional tablet which allows you to see Adobe Flash and HTML5 as well as cameras on the front and...
Quad-Core Galaxy S III Rumored to be at MWC
It isn't like quad-core smartphones are unexpected but it is still amazing that the power of four processors can be sandwiched between thin pieces of glass - communicating over 4G networks and doing what a supercomputer of just over a...
Intel Sees HTML5, Ultrabooks and More in Tech's Future
This past August Intel invested $300M in an Ultrabook fund and if you haven’t had a chance to use these high-end laptops from companies like Asus and Toshiba – you should… They are pretty incredible. Light, thin, efficient and fast....
Will Microsoft Departure Kill CES?
Can one major defector kill a trade show institution? It happened with COMDEX – the show got so big that it exerted tremendous pressure on companies to spend more and more money to keep their coveted locations on the show...
Drop the Phone in a Toilet and Still Use it!
Many of us have been there – you walk into the bathroom, the phone rings, you see who is calling and the phone slips – whoops, there she goes, right into the toilet. Then the agonizing second when you...
Sound ID SIX Proves Bluetooth Headsets Need an App
Reheating a casserole? There's an app for that. The evolution of the headset mirrors virtually everything else in the world – it has become more technologically sophisticated and a lot smarter. Case in point is the Sound ID SIX Bluetooth...
Streaming Radio? There's An App For EACH Station
I love all kinds of music and unless I am in the mood for something slow, I find the faster the beat the better. So I have been on a quest for the best workout music and I’ve had good...
One Hurricane Irene Tip for your Electronics
While I leave it to others to opine on tips you need to survive a hurricane in New York, I would like to just remind my readers to back up everything they have in digital format to the cloud. Photobucket...
Cablevision Brings TV to iPhones and iPods
A few months back, Cablevision released an iPad app allowing consumers to watch hundreds of channels and thousands of video on demand titles. How successful was it? Well it was downloaded more than 200,000 times making it one of the...
HTML5 to Allow 15-year Post Internet Boom Mega-Cycle
Investing legend Roger McNamee, managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners was interviewed on CNBC this morning and explained why he is bullish on the tech sector. He goes on to say Apple is winning and tell us why. He...
Amazon Ad-Supported Kindle
The new Kindle with Special Offers costs $114 and shows ads as screen savers and so far has some high-profile customers - Buick, Olay, Visa, and Amazon.com Reward Visa Card (Chase Bank). Some of the offers are quite good, giving...
A Future Made of Glass?
I don't often write about glass, but this is the second post in a row (here is the first) on the topic. Obviously this must be pretty good for me to be so repetitive. Corning has a new video about...
Tembo Trunks: Vuvuzela Inspired Music
Its been months since the World Cup ended but that sound of Vuvuzelas is still stuck in my head. But wouldn't you know it - someone took the idea of the vuvuzela and came up with a concept for iPod...
Tablets Disrupt Hard Drives
The Disruptor Gets Disrupted A common example of a disruptive technology is inexpensive, less reliable hard drives which when configured into RAID (redundant systems allowing one or two disk failures to not bring down an array) systems created a superior...
Gadgetize the Man in Your Life
Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets – that’s what we need. Question: What is hotter than consumer electronics these days? Answer: Nothing. Tammy Wolf is relatively new to TMC and the TMC Newsroom but comes out swinging with an awesome video clip on...
The Apple iOS vs. Android Fight in 2011
As TMCnet's Tom Keating mentions on his blog, there are many factors to consider in the fight for mobile supremecy between Apple, Google Android and yes, even Microsoft. Tom's point about Microsoft injecting itself into the Android relationship with carriers...
Finally Headsets Get Smart
You get a call, you pick up the headset and put it on your ear and then turn on the headset to connect the call.One of these steps is not needed.The Apple iPhone popularized the motion sensor/accelerometer and Sonos uses...
Google Furthers Android Everywhere Strategy
Google's recent Phonetic Arts purchase shows the search leader is serious about seeing Android in virtually any and every device you can think of. Phonetic Arts makes software which makes TTS more natural, allowing humans to have a more fluid...
Xbox 360 Kinect Review
I tested the Xbox 360 system with full-body motion sensing system Kinect a few months back and said it was revolutionary. I had a chance to spend hours with it today and that early opinion I developed is right on....
Behold: Satellite Radio 2.0
In my opinion services like Satellite radio and personalized services like Pandora and Slacker are what I would consider Radio 2.0 so I read with interest a piece on Seeking Alpha which discusses Satellite Radio 2.0 which will blend the...
Rich Buchanan Passes Away
One of the saddest posts I have had to make has to do with the passing of Rich Buchanan the former CMO of Ooma. Well regarded in the consumer electronics space and having a fantastic grasp of the communications market...
AT&T Churn Rate Insanely Low
Gary Kim does a great job explaining in an articlethat Customers will put up with a a lot of imperfection in service quality as evidenced by the 1% churn rate of AT&T versus the industry average of 3%. One wonders...
Apple, iPhone, AT&T and Cloud Computing in Latest TMC Videos
I am looking forward to shooting over 80 videos this week in San Jose. In the mean time here are a few of the most recent videos I was involved with in the TMC Newsroom this past week. The first...
HDTV Buying Tips
If you are looking for an HDTV you want to be sure youtake many different items into consideration such as manufacturer specifications, product reviews, return policies, etc. As one coworker reminded me today - be sure the TV you purchase...
