Archive for the ‘Digital Home’ Category
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Silicon Alley Insider Chart of the Day (above) shows the great curve of DVR (Digital Video Recorders) adoption in US, where almost one in three households already have one. This poses a threat to the advertising model of broadcast TVs, as DVRs are commonly used to fast-forward ads.
DVRs are ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Boxee is getting so successful that many of its users are seriously considering to stop their Pay-TV subscriptions.
Boxee is a cool open source software for Media Centers based on Mac or Ubuntu. This software transforms a Mac Mini, Apple TV or any Linux small-form PC into a social network set-top-box. ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Laptops are killing the Desktop PC at home as they already did in the office.
It is more and more common that each member of a family has his/her own laptop. Specially now that netbooks become an affordable choice for the first personal laptop of a child.
Soon home NAS will become ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
It is already one year since Sony signed with the four big movie studios and knocked out Toshiba in the war for the high-definition video format. Seagate's CEO said then "Blue-ray won the battle but lost the war", referring to hard-drives as the end winners that will store HD movie ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Some facts about Online video:
Online TV is growing. The number of people watching online video will grow from 563 million in 2007 to 941 million in 2013 according to ABI research, echoed by NewTeeVee.
People watch far more hours of TV from the couch than on the PC. According to Nielsen ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Taiwanese vendor Asus brought the Netbooks to mainstream with their popular Eee PC, leading the way for other manufacturers to jump into a now crowded category. Following that success, Asus introduced a small-form-factor desktop, the Eee Box, creating a new NetTop category, that so far has failed to take off.
But ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
If Internet is a great tool for entrepreneurs to test business ideas, YouTube is becoming the natural place to disclose inventions and test their relevance.
Leslie Berlin, a Silicon Valley historian, writes If no one sees, it is it an invention? for NY Times. Leslie explains that inventors have found in ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
When will my laptop be totally wireless, even to recharge the battery? The future might be sooner than we thought, and Nanotechnology will be part of it.
There are many types of Wireless Energy Transmission although none of them have gone further than a prototype. For home use, powerbeaming could be the ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
As can be seen in the demo video from SoftKinetic, 3D motion-sensing software is becoming quite powerful. Similar to EyeToy in PS2, I would not be surprised if Sony soon brings this technology to PS3 to counter-attack Wii's revolutionary game controller.
3D motion-sensing, or gesture recognition, could change the way we ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
I have nothing against Microsoft, although many posts in tech-talk.biz could seem to be against them. I admire Microsoft and Bill Gates for what they have done from the computer industry to change our lives.
Still I can not be happy when I just had to reboot Vista twice after one of these ...
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