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As I wrote about last week, I just made the decision to switch our phone (from Verizon to Time Warner Cable) and TV services (from Time Warner Cable to DIRECTV). My ideal solution would have been to sign up for Verizon's FIOS service for everything, but alas, FIOS TV service isn't yet available in New York City, and according to Verizon's website, my building isn't DSL-capable, much less FIOS-friendly.
In what has to be the surest sign yet that companies will stop at nothing to come up with gifts that can be deemed "Valentine's Day-friendly," Nanda, creators of the Clocky mobile alarm clock, has announced a new raspberry-colored version of it's little objet de torture. (And of course, only available "while supplies last.
With a move pending in two weeks, my wife and I had to confront a bunch of issues - renovating the new apartment, finding movers, and of course the most important one of all - deciding whether or not to stick with Time Warner Cable, or make the jump to satellite.
With PMA less than a week away, Janice Chen's been keeping busy over in our Digital Cameras blog. In case you haven't been paying attention, she served up a nice snapshot (pun really not intended - I swear) of Canon's new line-up, including the new 12.
If you were the recipient of a new Insignia digital picture frame for the holidays, you may have gotten an extra bonus with your gift.Turns out the 10.
So just days after the news broke that Time Warner was getting ready to test a pay-for-pipe rate plan for Road Runner customers, HBO announced that it would start making some of its shows available to subscribers via the Web for free. (Henry Blodgett, for one, is convinced the new service will fail.
Updated second paragraph below to give credit where credit is due (1/17/07, 10am)I'm not 100-percent sure what to make of Time Warner's recent announcement that they're about to begin experimenting with a pay-for-what-you-use pricing plan for broadband customers, but I'm pretty sure it ain't good.
I would have thought that after the iPhone price cut fiasco, Apple would have gotten a bit savvier on the customer-friendly front, but given the company's decision to charge $20 for the iPod Touch software update, I guess not so much.
And now boys and girls, fun from a seconds-old search on Google News (search term="Paramount Blu-ray," and no, there's no confirmation on that front just yet).Note to Toshiba: A 50-percent price cut on your HD DVD product line doesn't exactly ooze confidence that HD-DVD is going to win the format war, though admittedly, it's a touch better than a flashing "Everything Must Go!
It's not often that I find myself disagreeing with my colleague Larry Dignan, but I have to admit that I was pretty surprised to read his take on the whole Gizmodo incident.