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Those of you who have parents or grandparents who are currently using MSN TV 2 may have some family requested free tech support in your future. Microsoft has announced that MSN TV 2 will close, forever, as of September, 30, 2013. People who are using the MSN TV set-top box will not have to return it to Microsoft. In fact,
I wish someone would make an iOs email application that would combine both Mailbox and Dispatch. Currently I am using a combination of both. I like Mailbox because it allows me to easily sweep emails I want to look at more closely later into three boxes Read, Buy or Watch. The rests are quickly archived or deleted. I can also label
Last fall I got a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. I love the S3. It's an awesome piece of technology. Sometime overnight a couple of evenings ago, it developed a hardware problem and the next day it would no longer boot. It was working perfectly when I went to bed, but when I woke up something had gone wrong. So, I
Samsung just stepped up their game in the Set Top Box division by purchasing Israeli and NYC based Boxee streaming media. Boxee came out in 2007 as streaming TV media started to gain traction. Companies like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, Vudu and more created apps which could be seen on the Boxee Entertainment System. Even Techpodcasts and Blubrry have channels
Duck Mr. Piggy, there is a bird heading your way! Rovio pushes the envelope a bit further with its massive gaming franchise, rolling out new levels to its record-breaking original Angry Birds game. The Red Bird gets his very own episode featuring new "Egg Defender" gameplay, combining Angry Birds and Bad Piggies in a frenzy of bird flinging and crazy
Hey! Yo! Yous Hearin This!?! New York city announced that ICANN approved its request for the .nyc top-level domain. This is the first city to do so. "Pursuing the .nyc top-level domain has been a goal of Mayor Bloomberg’s Digital Roadmap from the start", said Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer, "and this caliber of innovation keeps New York City on
At the end of yesterday, July 1, the bell tolled for Google Reader. While it was a sad moment, many alternatives exist.Granted, most of us wish we did not have to move to them, but that is the grim future we must all face. A brief visit to the web site displays a dire message that customers have been dreading
I fly out to LA tomorrow evening to pickup Glass.. Fully looking forward to bringing the insiders my first impressions. There will be no show the evening of the 4th of July.. Also some updates on my pending travel. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Audio Show File Follow me on
Remember AltaVista? I was quite surprised to learn that it was still in existence. Many of us have moved on to other search engines since AltaVista was created. If you are feeling a sense of nostalgia about AltaVista, you should probably go use it soon. Its days are numbered. Yahoo! acquired AltaVista in 2003. Yahoo! has announced several of the
With Google Glass rolling out to a select few, copycats making a glass alternative and the rumors of an iWatch coming from Apple, it's safe to say we are now entering into the wearable device era. This is where we get rid of the bulky desktop, laptop and even iPads and have information coming to different parts of our bodies.
For a year now we have known that Mozilla was developing its own mobile operating system. There has even been a preview version you could run with the Firefox web browser and developer handsets available, though these sold out very quickly. Now the launch is at hand, as the first handset will be going on sale through Telefonica in Spain. "Mozilla,
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