TiVo And EchoStar – Best Friends Forever?

In the latest twist for the blogosphere’s favorite patent telenovela, the Federal Appeals court overseeing the current stage of TiVo’s patent case against Dish, has put EchoStar’s patent appeal on pause for the next 14 days, pending the settlement of the case. According to the Pacer court of appeals website, the following entry was recorded [...]

DVD Vending Goes To White Castle

For those of you who’ve never seen Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, I reccomend that you check it out. The movie is about a pair of misfits who go on a late night journey for White Castle burgers only to have one adventure after another. While they don’t have White Castles in San [...]

DivX Unmuzzled – The Quiet Period Ends

DivX Unleashed Hosted on Zooomr Over the past few months I have become increasingly obsessed with a company that I have followed for a very long time. For most people, today was like any other Monday. They went to work, talked about their weekend and couldn’t wait for it to be over, but for me [...]

Never Take A Gun To A Knife Fight

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Profilactic Almost Ready For Unveiling . . .

One of my favorite bloggers on the net, Smorty71, has been working on a secret web 2.0 application called Profilactic for sometime now and it’s almost ready to go primetime. I first heard about it 6 months ago when he briefly mentioned that he was cooking something up, but since then it’s been hidden in [...]

Catching Up On The TiVo HME With A Series 3

TiVo or Not Hosted on Zooomr Having never made the jump from the TiVo 1 to the TiVo series 2, I missed out on a lot. While the whole blogosphere was buzzing about the HME development contest, I could only scratch my head and pretend like I understood. Thinking back on when TiVo gave me [...]

Investors Sour On Akamai Earnings Report

Akamai Technologies is a company that delivers video on demand better then any business on the internet. Their technology allows them to allocate their resources in such a way that they can send internet viewers to the servers located closest to them, which vastly speeds up the delivery of the rich media that we love [...]

Hollywood and Technology Endure Awkward Blind Date

Lets Get Ready To Rumble Hosted on Zooomr One of the pranks I used to play in college was to dial the phone number of one of my friends, who typically was having relationship problems, and as soon as their phone would start ringing, I would immedietely put them on conference call and dial their [...]

The Subtle Advantages of Redbox’s DVD Kisoks

About 6 months ago, Byrus from the Daily Gadget, wrote a brief review of Redbox’s DVD rental machines in Colorado. Since that time, Redbox has made two major enhancements to their DVD rental program, so he went back and wrote an excellent update on his experience using the Redbox DVD machines. Over the last 9 [...]

The Empress Of China

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