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Perkins Miller, senior VP of digital media for NBC Sports & Olympics, acknowledges that the television product remains the core business. “If you look at the way the folks in the corner office have programmed the Olympics for decades, and done so with tremendous success, what it reflects is that people want to watch the Olympics while sitting in front of their 50-inch television when it is most convenient for them,” he says. “This is something we continue to support strategically.” If this... Read Full Story

What do you want to talk about? Any questions? (iStockphoto) Now that the holiday season, CES, and the iPad announcement are all over, there's definitely a lull in the tech gadget industry.  My Internet TV setup hasn't changed that much, with the exception of a strange outage from both PlayOn and Netflix Watch Instantly on PS3.  The strange outage resolved itself after a few days. So, I want to ask all of you.... What do you want to talk about?  What tech issues have you run into lately... Read Full Story

By now, I'm sure all of you have heard about Apple's new product, the iPad tablet computer.  I will review this as soon as a get the opportunity to demo one, but until then, here's a summary of the features: Price Wi-fi Only 16GB - $499 32GB - $599 64GB - $699 If you want 3G, add $130 to the cost Data Plans via AT&T (no contract) up to 250 MB - $14.99/month unlimited - $29.99/month Reviews Engadget : Solid feel, no Flash support, no multitasking, no camera, great CPU... Read Full Story

In the last few months, I've really enjoyed watching movies via my Netflix Instant Watch disc on my Playstation 3 .  However, in the last week, the program doesn't seem to want to load.  It sounds as if the PS3 is constantly trying to load the program, but can't seem to get it done.  The rest of my discs seem to load with no problems. Anyone else have this problem?  I have requested a new streaming disc from Netflix.  I will post an update when the disc shows up in my mailbox. Newsletter... Read Full Story

Since I made the switch to a Mac back in November 2008, I've really enjoyed the user experience.  For my personal use, Mac OS X offers pretty much everything I need, from chat clients like Adium, to a very good Office Suite with Open Office.  However, while I've almost completely stepped Cross platform software like Parallels Desktop for Mac lets you run multiple operating systems at once (iStockphoto) away from Windows for my personal use, I still have to use Windows XP every single day... Read Full Story

You switched to Mac.... Now what? (iStockphoto) You made the switch!  Now what? A friend of mine just made the transition to a shiny new iMac.  I personally made the transition to a Mac in late 2008 and I haven't looked back since.  Here are the Mac applications that I use every single day. Adium : My favorite instant messenger aggregator - supports AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook, GTalk, etc. Tweetie : I prefer the smaller screen footprint of Tweetie to Tweetdeck. Cross Platform... Read Full Story

Update on an earlier Facebook post (iStockphoto) A few days ago, I wrote a post about a new feature in the Facebook iPhone App that syncs your iPhone contact list with Facebook profile pictures and links to Contacts. To their credit, Facebook warns users with the following text: If you enable this feature, all contacts from your device (name, email address, phone number) will be sent to Facebook and be subject to Facebook's Privacy Policy, and your friends' profile photos and other info... Read Full Story

Facebook iPhone App (version 3.1.2) presents some troubling privacy concerns regarding your Facebook profiles (iStockphoto) Recently, Facebook pushed a new update (version 3.1.2) for their Facebook iPhone app.  While I personally have been unable to install that update for some reason, The Wife told me that this version attempts to sync Facebook profile pictures with the contacts in your iPhone address book.  Apparently, she updated her iPhone 3GS today with version 3.1.2 and was asked if... Read Full Story

Preserve your document format with PDF. However, generating these PDFs can be time consuming without the right tools (iStockphoto) This is going to be a quick mini-post that is more of a question to all of you: Do you find yourself creating PDF files?  If you do, what programs do you use? What exactly is the PDF format? These days, the PDF file format is becoming more common.  PDF allows the author to control the content and formatting of a document independent of the operating system... Read Full Story

Internet TV can be liberating when it works, but frustrating when it doesn't (iStockphoto) Since February 2009, I've been running an experiment to see if I could go without a cable television.  I've found that with a few exceptions, I haven't missed my cable subscription at all.  Downloading my television content via the Internet has been quite a learning experience.  When it works, it's great.  When it doesn't, you want to want to just tear your hair out. Here are a few Internet TV... Read Full Story