Bing Search Gets Social Bing and Facebook announced an extension to their partnership on Wednesday. Bing search results will now feature a section that shows Facebook profiles and highlights articles that were “liked” on Facebook by a user’s friends. Microsoft’s Qi Liu, president of Online Services explained that Bing wants to make social people part Continue Reading →
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I was moderating a Socratic discussion entitled, Digital 101: The Evolving Living Room at the recent Digital Sports Summit and I wanted to stir things up a bit, so I decided to ask my panel the wrong question, “Considering the amount of personal devices people are using to consume media, is there really a living Continue Reading →
FCC Will Release TV Spectrum For Broadband The FCC unanimously voted to release unused Television spectrum for wireless broadband use. This is a major victory for tech-giants like Google, Microsoft and Dell who will now have access to the highly coveted “white space.” Consumers will benefit with faster Internet speeds, better mobile connectivity and broadband Continue Reading →
July 20, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Droid X Sold Out:eBooks Outsell Hardcovers: Amazon announced that eBooks for Kindle are outselling hardcover books. According to Amazon, customers are purchasing 143 Kindles, and 180 Kindle books, for every 100 hardcover books. Jeff Bezos believes eBooks have hit the “tipping point,” Continue Reading →
June 29, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: FCC To Auction More Spectrum: Yesterday President Obama decided to help you get a handle on your digital life. The government will auction off more wireless spectrum to be used for fixed and mobile broadband connections. What? It means that within a Continue Reading →
June 17, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Txt With Care: Can your boss read your text messages on a pager or phone the company pays for? According to a California Supreme Court ruling the answer is, yes. The high court ruled that a California Police department had the right Continue Reading →
Every once in a while smart people do something so stupid that it needs to be called what it is. I promise this is not going to be a technical column, but if you follow the signal flow I am about to describe, you will quickly arrive at the following conclusion: The nice people at Continue Reading →
May 12, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Verizon/Google iPad Killer: It looks like Verizon is going to team up with Google to create the ultimate iPad killer. Verizon CEO, Lowell McAdam said a Google tablet could give users access to “all the things Google has in its archives.” Of Continue Reading →
May 10, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: FCC To Let Hollywood Control Your TV Set: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the FCC’s mind to … Continue Reading →
May 7, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Safe Playboy?: Playboy is set to become safe for work. The storied men’s magazine will launch “The Smoking Jacket,” more in the vein of Maxim and Esquire than Playboy. Now you can authoritatively say, you only read it for the articles. FCC Continue Reading →