All Is Not Fair In Love And War: Are Canadian Telcos Exploiting “Do Not Copy” Rules To Sell More DVRs?

The conspiracy theorists tried to warn us that it would happen, but Congress still choose to ignore consumer rights when they passed the “broadcast flag” legislation. Under the program, DVR makers were forced to recognize “do not copy” rules that could be applied to certain types of content. So far the rules haven’t prevented any [...]

Because Breaking Up Is Hard 2.0 Do

They say that breaking up is hard to do, but it turns out that breaking up in a web 2.0 world can be even more complicated than break ups from the past. Social networks have made it easy to meet new people and to share pieces of your life with a larger community, but what [...]

Would You Give Up TiVo For Your Air Conditioner?

TiVo’s remote can do a lot of great things, but apparently Brainfreiz’s remote, includes a little too much functionality. The good news is that he’s able to control his new air conditioner with his TiVo remote. No special hacks, it came out of the box like that. The bad news is, everytime he hits the [...]

Davis Freeberg’s Site Of The Week

Given the technology focus on my site, I never thought that a woman’s magazine would win site of the week, but Queendom’s great tests won this week’s award. Queendom is a site that hosts lots of polls and tests that you can use to answer all of life’s riddles. Most of the polls are for [...]

24 In 24 Hours – A Whole Season (Almost) In Real Time

For the most part, I’m pretty content to time shift my television and watch it at my own pace, but when it comes to 24, I have always made a point to watch it the same night that it aired. The show is just too exciting to wait a day longer than you have to. [...]

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Taking Apart The Financial Gears Behind iRobot

I’ve always been a fan of iRobot as a consumer, but I’ve never been a big fan of their stock. When the company first went public, there was a lot of buzz, but I could never get past their razor thin margins. I knew that they were doing interesting things, but my interests were elsewhere, [...]

Davis Freeberg’s Site Of The Week

This week’s winner of the site of the week contest was Every Stock Photo. Every Stock Photo is a site that is especially helpful if you happen to be a blogger, because it allows you to search Flickr, StockXchange and other photo sharing sites, for images that are available under the creative commons license. I [...]

A Closer Look At TiVo’s Series 3 Remote

When most people think about TiVo, they only think about being able to record TV. They might be aware of some of TiVo’s extra features, but unless they’ve actually tried the service, it’s hard to understand the little things, that make TiVo so great. It’s easy for consumers to understand the appeal of features like [...]

EA Sports – It’s Not In The Game

Over the course of my life, I have been one of Electronic Arts best customers. It’s embarassing to admit how much money I have spent on the company, but year after year, I’m the guy who falls for their trick of repackaging the same content, over and over again. I’m not sure why I feel [...]