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Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: 3DTV is here!  The first Samsung 3D-enabled HDTV is currently available for purchase on Amazon. What are you going to watch on your new 55 inch 3D Samsung … nothing yet. Want to program your Comcast DVR remotely, yep, there’s an app for that.  Comcast has Continue Reading →

Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: There’s a hint that Twitter is getting ready to launch a new site designed to replace many of the coolest third-party apps. Lookout TweetDeck, duck and cover Brizzly, Twitter is gunning for you! In other news, do you like using Google Street View? Then you’ll love Continue Reading →

Cablevision is working on bringing web video to your television. The cable provider plans on offering a new service that would wirelessly deliver web content to cable subscriber’s television’s. Dubbed PC to TV Media Relay, the service will wirelessly transmit any video content from a computer to a specific cable channel. As Apple preps for Continue Reading →

As the Comcast-NBCU merger nears approval, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota is calling for Comcast to continue to make NBC programs available for free online. Franken wants to make sure that if Comcast owns both the content and the broadband through which its delivered, that continues to deliver content fairly to all users, including those Continue Reading →

This week on Digital Life. Is Facebook bigger than Yahoo? Why are telcos ganging up on Apple. Amazon announces Kindle for BlackBerry, and I’ll talk with John Abell, wired.com’s NY Bureau Chief about the FCC’s new national broadband plan, plus I’ll talk with Nokia‘s branded content manager, George Linardos, about super cool stuff you can Continue Reading →

I just finished a radio interview with Kitty, a very nice talk show host somewhere in the Midwest. We did five minutes on “broadband.” She started by telling her audience that she had recently been on Twitter tweeting about her radio show and she got, “some kind of message about Twitter being over capacity.” She Continue Reading →

CBS is set to begin selling shows on iTunes for $0.99. The move comes just as Apple prepares to launch the iPad, a device which may transform mobile TV viewing. The move cuts the price of digital TV shows in half, making TV shows more affordable for users to download. Amazon unveiled a free Kindle Continue Reading →

Facebook is now the second most visited website in the US. The social network recently surpassed Yahoo in traffic, garnering over 133 million hits last month. The move shows that social network growth will continue to skyrocket, as they become even more ingrained into our digital lives. As the Olympics continue, criticism of NBC’s coverage Continue Reading →

The FCC’s latest plan for nation wide broadband will bring 100 megabits per second to approximately 100 million households in the US. The FCC hopes that its plan “will set goals for the U.S. to have the world’s largest market of very high-speed broadband users.” HBO is readying its first move into online video. HBO Continue Reading →

This week on Digital Life, everyone is buzzing about Google Buzz, eBook readers are upset about the price of eBooks, Dictators hate Twitter, and Google is going to test super-high-speed broadband, plus I’ll talk with Steve Rosenbaum, co-founder and CEO of magnify.net about the state of online video, and we’ll get a tour of the Continue Reading →