The last couple of Apple TV updates have not gone as smoothly as one would hope. Well, Apple is game to take another stab at it if you are. The Apple TV 4.4.2 update has been released with the promise that it will resolve the bricking issues that cropped up with the 4.4.1 update. Anyone willing to be first to […]
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The UK version of the The Office is celebrating its tenth anniversary and to help with the festivities the BBC is making all 14 original episodes available on iTunes for the first time. Besides launching Ricky Gervais into the spotlight and serving as the inspiration for one of the most popular sitcoms in the United States, The Office has had […]
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Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs has garnered all sorts of attention, including a little blurb that Steve Jobs gives about making an Apple TV. No, not that Apple TV, a real TV. Apple watchers have speculated for years that Apple would eventually try to push its way into the flat-panel television market, but instead the company has focused its […]
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At this point everyone knows all the different ways that Netflix has stumbled recently. Between price hikes and the ill-conceived Qwikster launch and cancellation, there was no doubt that Netflix was going to lose some subscribers. The only question was how many. At one point Netflix had warned investors that they could lose about one million subscribers as a result […]
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BitTorrent has had a rocky go of it with Internet Service Providers. Whether used for legitimate purposes or not, many ISPs have chosen to throttle BitTorrent connections. Mlab was established a few years ago specifically to study the network management practices of major ISPs. Though BitTorrent throttling was the not the only interest of MLab, it was definitely a major focus. MLab […]
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Verizon currently has more than a half-dozen apps in the Android Marketplace that allow Verizon FiOS subscribers to access the functionality of their service from a mobile device. While undoubtedly generous, it also sounds a bit unwieldy. The newly released My FiOS app brings the functionality that had been spread across several apps into one single app. A similarly integrated […]
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I enjoy reading motherboard reviews, even when I’m not in the market for a new system. However, when I am planning a new build, my favorite kind of motherboard review is a good old-fashioned platform showdown. Today we’re looking at a new breed of Mini-ITX motherboards from Asrock called the Z68M-ITX/HT and A75M-ITX. The former is an Intel Z68 board that supports Intel’s […]
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Comcast has been betting big on Video on Demand over the last few years as the company has pulled its services together under the Xfinity brand. As the largest cable provider in the U.S., Comcast has certainly generated its fair share of detractors for its business practices and content and service offerings, but whatever your feelings about the company, the […]
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Companies have been trying to meld cameras of one sort of another to the TV for years now with the vision of enabling video calling or videoconferencing from the comfort of the living room couch. Such efforts have generally been tied to other hardware such as the Kinect for the Xbox or the TV Cam for Google TV. We’ve even […]
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DLNA can be tricky. For one thing, it’s a tricky acronym. It can also be difficult to explain the concept to the uninitiated. Fearful that the world might end up describing DLNA as being kind of like AirPlay, the Digital Living Network Alliance has put together a series of videos on their YouTube channel to explain DLNA and demonstrate how […]
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