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Netflix is in talks with several U.S. pay-television providers including Comcast and Suddenlink Communications to make its online video service available as an app on their set-top boxes, people familiar with the matter say. A deal would mark the online video service’s first such tie-up with a U.S. cable provider and would come after a Continue Reading →

Apple’s latest iPhone 5S has an unexpected feature: the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). While it’s typically an error found on older Windows PCs, a number of iPhone 5S users are reporting random reboots on their handsets following a BSOD. The blue screen reboots appear to be iPhone 5S specific and are largely occurring with Continue Reading →

Hi, thanks for stopping by to read My Blog Post. I want to talk about a Big Problem we make with our Writing that’s Never Discussed. What’s the Issue? We tend to Capitalize words we think should be Uppercase. The mistake happens everywhere: Facebook Status Updates, Resumes, Cover Letters and even our Job Descriptions. Sorry, Continue Reading →

Google announced a policy change on Friday that lets the company create sponsored endorsements based on reviews it collects from YouTube, Zagat and other Google-controlled sites. In practice, this means that after November 1 (when the policy goes into effect), you may see yourself appearing in ads. Some people will be fine with this — Continue Reading →

With Google’s stock of the Nexus 4 now officially depleted, the company’s next flagship Android phone should be arriving within a matter of weeks — perhaps just days. We’ve already seen the so-called Nexus 5 in various FCC filings, leaked photos, and on Google’s own Mountain View campus. And while we’ve got a fairly good Continue Reading →

Tomorrow will not be like today. Today you will experience the slowest rate of technological change in your lifetime. Tomorrow, it will be faster and the pace of change will continue to increase. Managing this change and learning to adapt will separate the successful from the extinct. Adapt or die. That’s what the 6th Annual Continue Reading →

Google TV is dead, long live Android TV: Three years after launching the first generation of Google TV devices, Google is now looking to rid itself of the brand and realign its smart TV platform efforts more closely with Android. The move is part admission that Google TV failed, part hope that Android will eventually Continue Reading →

Instagram announced earlier this month that it will begin serving in-feed advertising before the end of the year, and the Facebook-owned photo and video app has made a subtle, but important, change after it removed the option to switch off autoplay for videos on iOS. (The Android app retains an option to disable autoplay entirely, Continue Reading →

Whenever there is a new operating system, it’s not surprising to see apps crash at a somewhat higher rate, given all the changes. But one of the interesting things in Apple’s latest iPhone transition is that apps appear to be crashing at a much higher rate on the new iPhone 5s as on either the Continue Reading →

Not content to contend only with Netflix and Hulu for long-form video content like movies and TV shows, Amazon is exploring a push into the short-form territory dominated by YouTube. Amazon has pitched YouTube networks on distributing their short-form videos through the e-commerce company’s a-la-carte Instant Video service, according to people with knowledge of the Continue Reading →