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HzO protects your wireless device

May 14 2012 / No Comments

I was recently out in the rain walking a block from a parking lot to an office building while it was raining.  My phone rang and I answered it, looked up some info from my cloud storage document account and finished the call just as a gust of wing blew ...

New Apple TV is the first piece of hardware revealed today at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Mar 7 2012 / No Comments

Broadband Expert wrote about the sudden unavailability of Apple TV.  Just 2% of Apple stores had any in stock and Best Buy was totally out. Musings continued that a new Apple TV was in the works.  Well, I called this one correctly. I will not be the first to report from Yerba ...

Is Apple introducing a new Apple TV?

Mar 6 2012 / No Comments

If you have recently tried to buy an Apple TV, statistically you would have to visit 50 Apple Stores to find one.  Do you think you may have better luck at one of Apple’s partners? Think again.  Best Buy doesn’t have any product and if you see one it on the ...

Sony bails out of LCD display business

Dec 26 2011 / No Comments

After eight years in losses for their LCD manufacturing plant, Sony is bailing out of the business.  They are selling their share of S-LCD Corporation and giving up on LCD panels. Samsung has agreed to buy Sony’s share.  The S-LCD Corporation was founded in the first half of 2004 with Samsung ...

Microsoft Zune is dead, but not completely buried

Oct 11 2011 / 4 Comments

Microsoft in the past has telegraphed the death of the Zune music player.  I expected the Zune to be abandoned years ago, but Microsoft still continued to make them for its small group of Zune aficionados (relatively small compared to the number of iPhone fans). Well, it is official now.  Zune ...