Joost Shifts Its Focus to Selling Technology- Digital Trends News - July 1, 2009
- When online video operator Joost first appeared on the Internet landscape back in 2007, it was a force to be reckoned with: founded by the same folks who gave birth to Skype, Joost promised high-definition real-time streaming of real-time television ...
American Broadband Adoption Up, But So Are Prices- Digital Trends News - June 17, 2009
- The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its Home Broadband Adoption Report 2009, finding that the percentage of Americans with some form of broadband Internet access in their homes has climbed to 63 percent, a 15 percent increase fr...
The Clock Runs Out on U.S. Analog Television- Digital Trends News - June 11, 2009
- Tomorrow is June 12—do you know what that means? If you still receive television using traditional analog over-the-air broadcasts, your television will pick up nothing but snow starting tomorrow. Although stations are staggering their shutoffs ...
- CNET News Daily Podcast: Prevent your TV from becoming e-waste
- CNET News - June 9, 2009
- CNET News' Erik Palm talks about the dangers of e-waste and how to make sure your analog TV's disposed of properly as the U.S. gets ready to shift to digital television.
- DTV transition: Avoiding an e-waste 'tsunami'
- CNET News - June 9, 2009
- Greenpeace and others warn of a surge in electronic waste as the U.S. shifts to digital television. Here's how to recycle or reuse your old analog TV properly.
Vizio Launches a Fleet of New HDTVs- Digital Trends News - June 8, 2009
- Low-cost HDTV maker Vizio isn't bashful about its product introductions, and is apparently now taking a shotgun approach to the high-definition television market, announcing total of 31 new models that will be available to consumers starting from ri...
When will Internet Content Truly be on the TV?- Digital Trends News - June 5, 2009
- New York Times writer, Clive Barnes, once wrote, “Television is the first truly democratic culture — the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.&...
LaCie Introduces New LaCinema Black Home Media Servers- Digital Trends News - June 4, 2009
- LaCie has updated its LaCinema line of multimedia servers to include the LaCinema Black Play and LaCinema Black Record, each designed to connect to a user's home network (via Ethernet or Wi-Fi) and provide access to videos, music, photos and more sto...
iSuppli: When Times Get Tough, The Tough Watch Television- Digital Trends News - May 28, 2009
- Liberty Media CEO on future of television
- CNET News - May 27, 2009
- John Malone tells a crowd at the D: All Things Digital event that some people may still call it TV five years from now, but it will have morphed considerably.
- Google cashes in at television upfronts
- CNET News - May 22, 2009
- Google TV Ads is cutting deals with some major television advertising agencies in hopes of expanding Google's ad empire beyond the really small screen.
- Google Chrome ads coming to TV
- CNET News - May 8, 2009
- After placing an online ad Friday promoting Chrome on the front page of The New York Times, Google plans to advertise its Web browser on television this weekend.
- NFL and Comcast try to chop-block each other
- CNET News - April 15, 2009
- As negotiations go sour, the cable giant is threatening to take the television network of the National Football League off its programming roster altogether.
- Japanese Robotic Exoskeleton Looks Cool, Dorky
- PC World News - April 10, 2009
- The Japanese have a knack for developing movie and television inspired tech products that straddle the fine line of usefulness and nerdy fantasy. A company called Cyberdyne introduces HAL- a cybernetic suit that claims to make you ten times stronger.
Will Wright Leaves EA To Focus On Stupid Fun Club- Digital Trends News - April 9, 2009
- After 12 years with Electronic Arts, game designer is leaving to spend time on his “entertainment think tank,” Stupid Fun Club. Wright is the man who gave the world The Sims and Spore.EA has invested in Stupid Fun Club, described as "...