Posts Tagged ‘netflix’
Clik: The future of remotes, in an alternate reality
A new consumer electronics remote control technology gives smartphone users the fastest possible way to pair their smartphone with a media device. Clik makes smart TVs dumb I have seen the future of the remote control. Actually, I've seen several futures of the remote control, from the ultimate expression of the traditional infrared remote (the Logitech Harmony products), to strong “second screen” apps (like Dijit) that use a smartphone's smarts and interface to build a better guide or remote, to the latest iPhone apps that you can download for nearly every new home entertainment product (most are awful).
Tags: apple, business, college, consumer, media-, mobile, netflix, streaming, youtube
The second coming of Myspace has Facebook's Open Graph to thank
Myspace has long been the joke of the social media world. Last year the social networking site nearly self-imploded and was victim to massive layoffs, a less than impressive sale, and being written off as a News Corp mistake
Tags: a-sinking-ship, a-turning-point, amazon, article, digital, google-, myspace-, netflix, social, video, world
Courts have likely killed media servers that copy DVDs
You'll have to keep dusting off those stacks and shelves of DVDs for the foreseeable future–and maybe forever. Kaleidescape, a company that has long sought to help consumers create copies of their DVDs and store the digital files to a media server, has lost another legal battle
Tags: a-court-fight, a-media-server, a-servers-do-, a-single-push, amazon, blu-ray, digital, discs, dvd, internet, kaleidescape, legal, movies, netflix, superior-court