Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech by Eliot Van Buskirk
[2 Sep 2010 at 2:00pm]
This week?s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV?s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their programs for rent on Apple TV. The fact that Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder in, and on the board of, Disney ? owner of ABC ? perfectly illustrates this digital divide.
How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys by Evan Hansen
[2 Sep 2010 at 11:11am]
People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry. Cable boxes blow, but that's a losing battle. So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just created a new set top box. He's actually created a whole new media ecosystem built around the mobile phone.
5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring by Eliot Van Buskirk
[1 Sep 2010 at 2:32pm]
We know ? the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on the computer, phone, portable media player and tablet. Here are five reasons Apple TV is still boring.
Apple's Ping Network Is Already Too Big to Fail by Eliot Van Buskirk
[1 Sep 2010 at 1:45pm]
Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network ? one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot. With the introduction Wednesday of Ping, a music-centered community that exists only within iTunes, they are probably right ? and then some.
FCC Delays Net Neutrality Over Google-Verizon Proposal by Ryan Singel
[1 Sep 2010 at 1:29pm]
Federal regulators are putting off efforts to regain authority over the nation?s internet providers while they seek renewed public input on net neutrality.
Apple to Livestream Press Conference — to Apple Customers Only by Brian X. Chen
[31 Aug 2010 at 6:00pm]
Breaking with a longstanding but unstated policy, Apple has decided to publish a live video stream of Wednesday's press conference. The stream will be optimized for Mac, iPhone and iPad users only.
Screw Viral Videos. You Heard Me. Pass It On by Jim Louderback
[31 Aug 2010 at 10:55am]
Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, and that obsession is dragging down the entire industry. Why? Because viral videos are, at their core, no better than a fluffernutter white-bread sandwich, delivering little or no value to anyone.
Google Saves E-Mail With 'Priority' Message Filtering by Ryan Singel
[30 Aug 2010 at 9:01pm]
Gmail users can now choose to let Google sort their inbox by the most pressing messages, thanks to a new feature called Priority Inbox ? think of it as a sort of reverse spam filter which bubbles messages to the top of the queue based on what you read and respond to.
The Oxford English Dictionary Definitions of 'Print' and 'Digital' by Tim Carmody
[30 Aug 2010 at 11:24am]
The venerable Oxford English Dictionary isn't even one-third finished with what will be only its third revision in 80 years. But already there is talk that the multivolume work, which has informed scholars and fussy linguists, may eschew print entirely when the new edition is completed in about decade.
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