In case that you missed it, yes, the Microsoft Windows 7 Series Phone was announced in Barcelona and there was much to talk about, but the video does it the best. I wouldn’t mind trying one of these things out!!!
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Leah Culver leaves Six Apart
Feb 12
The originator of Pownce will be leaving Six Apart. She has been there for about a year since they acquired Pownce. She’ll soon be putting out her own iPhone App for Plancast, a social event calendar.
We shall see what’s coming up for Mrs. Culver and best of luck to her!
via [Leah Culver]
photo credit: Engadget
Tivo may be starting a new generation of DVRs according to Engadget. There seems to be an event being held in New York City on March 2nd and the invite sure looks promising. Now Tivo has been on a previous decline, but it seems as of late, they are on a slow upward turn. With the Series 3, it was looking very great, but it was getting sluggish. Apparently they are moving back the speed of the old series 2, so I look forward to see what is going to happen.
via [Engadget]
The world’s largest search engine wants to bring you fiber to your door! The best part about it? They want to keep it open to all! No prices just yet, they want to stay competitive though, and want city, county and state officials to start proposals to see if their community could be selected for these test trials. They are claiming they will service 50,000 people and possibly up to 500,000! Their cut off date is March 26th of 2010, so if you live in Nashville, you better get a move on! I would even vote for Chattanooga a this point. Either way, wherever they put it, I want to move there! (I have till April 11th to choose a new home, hmmmm….) If you are a city official or just live in a town and think you should be nominated, then you need to head on over here. While your doing that, watch this video from the announcement:
via [Digg]
So here I am again complaining about blu-ray discs that aren’t playing properly. I just purchased a new Philips BDP-5012 player and it already has issues. I updated to the latest firmware and still I get the same issue. All I see is a little square in the middle of the screen and get sound. Let me back up; I also just bought Gamer (2009) with the digital copy. Now I can just go ahead and download the digital copy to my iTunes and watch it that way, but I want to see the full glory of it in 1080p!! All I am asking, is that the companies that are building these blu-ray players, keep them up-to-date. Even if they are last year’s model, but it does have a net connection. So all I should do is, turn it on, and it update, and the darn thing play! Philips, I am calling you out! Please fix this issue!!!!
If you have Netflix streaming, you could soon be in for a nice little update. 5.1 Surround Sound and Closed Captioning will soon be on the streaming service of Netflix. There were reports that there was going to be 1080p video, but apparently those were scrapped. Netflix was talking to CNET about their roadmap for 2010 updates and this is where they seem to be going. As of now, there isn’t any time or details as to when this is going to happen, but sometime during this year, you should see the update.
