TV and Entertainment News
There's been a lot of internet chatter about a possible refreshing of Apple's TV box, much of it centring around a claimed name change to iTV, a price drop to $99 and the prospect of 99cent downloads for our US cousins, but surprisingly much less thought about where it fits into Apple's wider ecosystem. Until I bought my iPad my mobile video use consisted of nothing more hi-tech … [Read more...]
Earlier this year I got an invite to join a pre-launch beta version of the SeeSaw online TV service, at the time the range of available content was a little unimpressive (though I seem to recall it was all available at no cost) and my usage of it stopped pretty quickly. Recently I was asked by the firm’s PR agency if I’d care to look again, including at the paid-for content … [Read more...]
As is often the case with online tech news, an initial rumour has sparked a flurry of follow up stories, each in turn diluting the speculative nature of the premise so that the casual reader could be mistaken for believing the story in question is based on a known, unassailable fact. This time the stories feed off a rumour that Apple are mere weeks away from launching a 7” … [Read more...]
When I first saw the Dell Streak 'tablet' the first thing which struck me was how small the screen was going to look compared to the iPad which, like it or not, is what most buyers are going to compare it with. At 5" the screen is the same size as my old Ameo which was usable but not exactly desirable for long periods of time. Still Android is pretty popular so I figured the Streak … [Read more...]
