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- Would you let Wal-mart do your home-theater installation?
- Probably not. Not because its Wal-mart although that has some to do with it, but because I don't know who N.E.W. is. I'd rather trust a first party rather than a third party to install a home theater. Only one point of contact there, no guessing who to contact...
- Tags: Construction, TV & Home Theater, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., home-theater installation, local geek
- Discussion threads 2009-10-25
- CIO Sessions: Verizon Telecom's Shadman Zafar on Internet TV
- Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the company’s promise to deliver the Internet to television with its new Fios platform. The service will include social media widgets like Facebook and Twitter. Zafar describes the company’s approach to innovating in an economic downturn and...
- Tags: CIO, Internet TV, Verizon Communications Inc., Telephony, TVs, Telecom & Utilities, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Shadman Zafar, CIO, Verizon Telecom
- Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the company?s promise to deliver the Internet to television with its new Fios platform. The service will include social media widgets like Facebook and Twitter. Zafar describes the company?s approach to innovating in an economic...
- Tags: CIO, Verizon Communications Inc., Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Telecommunications, Networking, Verizon Telecom
- Videos 2009-10-21
- Short clip: Verizon launches widget store
- Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, discusses the launch of the company?s new widget store where consumers can buy new social media applications like Twitter and Facebook and use the software on their television sets.
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Social Media, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Verizon Telecom
- Videos 2009-10-21
- Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing
- Several million or several hundred million?Several million is nothing. The numbers would need to be in the tens of millions to even be considered a "mistake." And if they're revenue sharing, there has to be revenue 1st before they have to share...bing is lame....and will cause people to leave twitter...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Facebook, Bing, Microsoft Corp., Chicago Cubs
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules
- Completely self-servingBy this rationale, why does anyone ever have to disclose anything? You can apply this logic to traditional media as well. Afraid to admit in the blog that you got the stuff you rave about was free? The real impact is it opens a channel for the vendor to...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, blogger, free speech, traditional media, blog, blogging, Interactive Advertising Bureau, FTC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- HP's Touchsmart: A PC, maybe, but cooler as a TV
- I think HP may be on to something with its TouchSmart PC. The new TouchSmarts, which are being unveiled today, are technically computers, complete with mouse and keyboard. (For the specs, check out Andrew Nusca's post.) But the heart of the device is the screen, specifically a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Keyboards, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- HTC Imagio (Verizon Wireless)
- Verizon Wireless' V Cast video and music service bundle has long been a staple feature of its high-profile feature phones, like the LG enV Touch and the Samsung Rogue for example. But it is typically lacking in Verizon's smartphone offerings, so as not to detract from the smartphone's more business-friendly...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Corporate communications, Smart phones, Cellular phones, screen real estate, Verizon Wireless, HTC Imagio, High Tech Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- 3D football, anyone? Intel offers peek at 21st Century television
- TV isn't TV anymore. It's out of the box. It's off the wall and it's not going back anytime soon. That was the opening line of the final keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, delivered by Intel exec Justin Rattner, who took to the stage to talk...
- Tags: 3D, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Courier: Microsoft's new take on the Tablet PC?
- RE: Courier: Microsoft's new take on the Tablet PC?First off, this is a really cool looking prototype. Second, I would hearken to what others raise; namely, when will the real product ship and what's the OS and tools side of the equation, as Apple has pretty much shown this to...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, BTW Here, tablet, Microsoft Corp., tablet PC, Apple Inc., PC
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Sound ID 400 Bluetooth headset
- Though Sound ID isn't as well-known as Jabra and Plantronics in the Bluetooth headset world, its headsets have stood out because of their comfort and sound quality. Indeed, Sound ID boasts a deep understanding of the science of hearing because of the company founder's otology roots. Its first headsets (the...
- Tags: earpiece, Bluetooth headset, Normal Mode, Sound ID 400, headset
- Product reviews 2009-09-22
- More details on HDI's 100-inch laser 3D TV: more energy-efficient, lower cost, walks on water
- California startup HDI is already creating buzz with the 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV it's been demoing. If the claims made by the company rep I corresponded with today turn out to be true, we could be looking at a Holy Grail of sorts for the next generation of television. ...
- Tags: 3D, Plasma, Laser, HDI, HDI Prototype, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Panasonic TC-P54G10
- Photo gallery: Panasonic TC-P54G10For some people, a 50-inch HDTV just isn't big enough. Panasonic created its new 54-inch screen size, represented here by the TC-P54G10, for just those kinds of people. This set competes directly against the new 55-inch LCD size for your big-screen consideration, and occupies a...
- Tags: Panasonic TC-P54G10, Panasonic, G10
- Product reviews 2009-09-17
- How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy
- Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...
- Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Beware - iPhone OS 3.1 kills tethering and unlock
- well....Outside of the apps for the iphone, I am sure glad I have an Omnia that just works and I can tether it as I please when I please. I can load any software I please, change the interface as I please and snap 5 Megapixel shots with the...
- Tags: Smart phones, OS 3.1, Apple iPhone, iPhone OS 3.1, iPhone OS, operating system, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Sony to start selling 3D HDTVs by end of 2010
- The momentum continues to grow around the concept of 3D television, whether it's James Cameron pimping for Panasonic's technology or talk about a 3D channel coming to the U.S.. The latest news is that Sony is planning to release Bravia LCD HDTVs with 3D capabilities by the end of the...
- Tags: Sony Corp., 3D, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Google seeks OEMs for Chrome browser; Sony signs on
- Google has partnered with Sony to promote its sleek but little-used Chrome browser, according to the Financial Times. The company is also in talks with other computer manufacturers, according to the report. The move marks increased effort on...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement
- Another thing, Google has NO exclusive rights with the book publishers hereAnybody else can scan books and strike a deal with the copyright holders. Actually, it is in the interest of the copyright holders to make sure that Google is not the only one offering the books, and there is...
- Tags: Cable, Google Inc., Google Book, Google Book Search Settlement, spirited defense, Google Book Search
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- The Internet's migration to the TV
- I found the recent rumors of an Apple Internet-enabled TV quite interesting. Our own Larry Dignan and Sam Diaz have been covering a Piper Jaffray report about a potential revamp of Apple's dormant Apple TV product and even an Apple-branded television set. Some possible scenarios include: ...
- Tags: Panasonic, Internet, Apple Inc., Migration, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?
- AppleTV only called a hobby after its dismal failureTo be sure, Apple did [b]not[/b] call AppleTV a "hobby" when they released it. It was only after they released the dismal sales figures for this piece of garbage that they "apologized" by calling it a hobby.You know what Apple should do...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Web, TV, Apple Inc., cable, Apple TV
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
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