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- 2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?
- Satellite TV has been gaining subscribers, relentlessly this decade. Particularly DirecTV, which had 3.8 million subscribers at the end of June 1998 and counted 17.2 million, at the end of this June, according to this compilation by the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association of America. ...
- Tags: Cable Television, Broadcasting, Satellite, Brodsky, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Did the iPhone kill satellite radio?
- A Slashdot post notes the sad state of affairs at satellite radio's Sirius XM and that it's starting to look like a "failed" company. why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company? Since...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Firefly satellite will study thunderstorms
- The Firefly mission is the second project under the new U.S. National Science Foundation NSF CubeSat program. The goal of this program is to provide a low cost access to space research. Firefly will be launched in 2010 or 2011 and will try to 'solve the mystery of the most...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Satellite, Firefly Mission, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, Atmosphere, Earth, NASA, News Release, Lightning, TGF
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Swarms of small satellites coming soon
- The first satellites were launched about 50 years ago as a way to conquer space. Now, satellites are essential for our civilian and military communications. But they remain large and expensive, some of them costing several hundreds of millions of dollars. This is why researchers from the University of Florida...
- Tags: Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, Fitz-Coy
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- The domestic digital divide
- We've heard a lot recently about how poor our broadband penetration is in this country. It's true, in fact, that too great a percentage of our students simply don't have access to high-speed internet at home like their European and Asian counterparts. What we all too often overlook...
- Tags: Broadband, Satellite, Hughes, Network Technology, Cable, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- DirecTV's HD tuner set to debut with Windows 7?
- DirecTV's HD tuner for Media Center PCs, first announced at CES three years ago, has achieved the same notoriety as Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster. The occasional sighting is always enshrouded in fog and mystery, and no one has ever reported spotting one of these mythical creatures...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, DirecTV, Creature, Microsoft Windows, TVs, Media Center PCs, Tv & Home Theater, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott, Media Center PC, Microsoft Corp., Satellite, H.264
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Toshiba L355D-S7825
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.By virtue of its broad, 17.1-inch display, the $699 Toshiba Satellite L355D-S7825 stands out among budget laptops (most of which feature 15.4-inch displays). And...
- Tags: Notebooks, Network technology, satellite, Satellite L355D-S7825, laptop computer, Toshiba Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-10-29
- Toshiba A305-S6872
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. If asked to describe the $749 Toshiba Satellite A305-S6872 in a single word, we'd say this: solid. The 15.4-inch system incorporates middle-of-the-road components...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, Toshiba Corp., satellite, laptop computer
- Product reviews 2008-10-27
- Real planes racing with a virtual one
- A really unique competition was recently held in the skies of Spain. Sky Challenge was a race between two real planes and a virtual one organized by New Zealand based Air Sports Ltd. and the Geospatial Research Centre GRC, a New Zealand based company which is a joint venture between...
- Tags: New Zealand, Plane, Roland Piquepaille, Aircraft, Satellite, Geospatial Research Centre, INS, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-19
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?This is not new ....... I worked on the project that was supposed to repair the Hubble, which was adapted from another "robotic satellite repair" project.In the end of the day, the cost of development and execution turned out to be more than double...
- Tags: Robots, Network technology, satellite, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Polk Audio RM95
- Polk Audio engineers and designers are hip to the fact that everybody wants the smallest possible speakers. Big displays and small speakers are where it's at, and Polk's RM95 home theater five pack comes with four tiny satellites and a very compact center speaker for $600. You add your choice...
- Tags: RM95 speaker, Polk Audio RM95, speaker, Polk, satellite
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- 28ò0of rural Americans without broadband say broadband is not available where they live
- 28ò0of rural Americans without broadband say broadband is not available where they liveAnd your point is?Why does this even have a place on the News and Blogs sidebar? It isn't really news and there is certainly no original content in it.This is not true!There has been satellite broadband available...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, satellite
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Watch Out: Digital TV Transition Starts ... Now
- Watch Out: Digital TV Transition Starts ... NowWe already have a battle brewing....In San Antonio, TX a local ABC affiliate KSAT is wanting to charge Time-Warner to rebroadcast the local channel on the cable network.Each is blaming the other.My Take is that I don't care if KSAT ABC is gone...
- Tags: Network technology, TVs, TV & Home Theater, digital television, NFL, local channel, cable, ABC Inc., pay-TV
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Hands on: Slingbox PRO-HD
- Unless you're someone who spends a lot of time Slinging content from your high-def TV to a computer elsewhere on your home network, you're not likely to see a whole lot of reason to upgrade - at least not quite yet - to the new $299 Slingbox PRO-HD, which began...
- Tags: Bedroom, Home Network, Satellite, HD, Cable, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least
- Above phjoto taken last week by NASA satellite. The Arctic ice cap is relatively small this year, but it ranks as only second smallest. The Ice Class of '07 still reigns. That's the latest word from the National Snow and Ice Data Center which...
- Tags: Greenland, Glacier, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- O3B satellites could bring real net access to rest of world
- O3B satellites could bring real net access to rest of worldCould be funded by the 1st. WorldThis is important work.I see an opportunity here. Frankly, with the disruption of quality local radio read classical music, I would love the opportunity to received streamed internet radio in my car from the...
- Tags: Network technology, O3b, rest of world, satellite, Internet access
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- O3B satellites could bring real net access to rest of world
- When I was in Uganda, pulling together the Uganda Digital Bookmobile, a spin-off of the Internet Archive Bookmobile, lack of Internet access and electricity was a huge issue. Brewster Kahle's original incarnation boasted a satellite dish on the roof for access to online books on...
- Tags: Internet Access, Satellite, Brewster Kahle, O3b, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone BeforeRE: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone BeforeAs long as Google doesn't allow their network to become self aware or allow it to tie into the entire global military defense network there shouldn't be a problem. Installing the...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine
- Discussion threads 2008-09-07
- To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before
- Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, who isn't extremely turned on or even intimidated by them. I've never seen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Imaging, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
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