‘Future Watch’ Archives
Will Star Trek Pirates be the start of a new distribution framework or an end to Untrammeled Broadband?
io9 - Five million people downloaded copies of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movie since it opened in theaters, and it's not even on DVD yet. Paramount cites that fact in its filing with the FCC's taskforce to create a National Broadband Plan. Easy access to broadband has made movie piracy easier than ever before, and sites like Google and Bing are [...]
10 Things You Need to Know About Apple Today
Gawker - Cupertino released a lot of new products today, and it was easy to miss a lot in the press release onslaught. To stay versed in the Tome of Apple, here are 10 things you need to know: Click Here to Read More
Comcast is so not Comcastic when it comes to the FCC.
Gismodo - As soon as FCC's Julius Genachowski takes out his mighty sword to kill internet providers' greed-driven traffic filtering, the fat cats are already attacking. A Comcast fat cat named David L. Cohen, who of course is playing the FUD card. Cohen is Comcast's executive vice-president for broadband, who believes that FCC should get their [...]
Apple Rock n Roll Music Event not very exciting this year.
The Apple iPod event came and went with not very much excitement after all. The Nano gets a camera and video recording capability, a built-in FM receiver with pause functionality. Price changes on the current line up of iPod Touch, iPod mini and iPod Classic. iTunes 9 has some interesting features and a cleaner iTunes Store interface. Also an [...]
AT&T Launches iPhone MMS September 25
Gizmodo - AT&T admits they're late, saying "it was important to give our customers a positive experience from day one" so they needed the extra to "to make sure our network is ready to handle what we expect will be a record volume of MMS traffic." Which I think means if MMS doesn't work, everybody can ream the shit out of them for it. The wait [...]
Our Food and why it just might be killing us.
Gismodo - It's hard to think of anything more essential to human survival than eating. And yet that very primal act of gobbling sustenance has, of late, become one of the most genuinely perplexing things we people do. Notice the sudden flood of books and movies covering the evils of industrialized food? Since Taste Test is, after all, a look at [...]
The AT&T dark overlords decide to force it’s ‘data plan’ for smartphone domination
Boy Genius Report - AT&T subscribers, we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that as of September 6th, AT&T will begin requiring that all smartphones sign up for a smartphone data plan. The good news is that customers with smartphones purchased prior to September 6th with non-smartphone data plans will be grandfathered in and will [...]
Video coming to your glossy Mag Rag!
Gismodo - That's right, aging, future-minded denizens of the 50s, video magazines are here! Almost. Come fall, Entertainment Weekly will feature the world's first video-screen-in-a-page advertisement, to sell you some TV shows. Read More
Apple might be planning keynote for week of September 7th, might have new products on offer
Engadget - We're hearing "multiple sources" are now reporting that Apple is most likely planning a keynote event -- possibly for the week of September 7th. There's also the requisite murmuring that one Steve Jobs may make an appearance -- though of course, there's also nothing more solid than wishes and fairy dust to back that one up. As far as [...]
Chevy Volt to get 230mpg in much the same way that your mom can say she’s ‘lost weight’ and Obama can say 45 million are uninsured: by fudging the numbers
CNN Money - Ultra-high mileage for GM's electric-drive Volt could give it a marketing boost. he Chevrolet Volt, GM's electric car that's expected to go on sale in late 2010, is projected to get an estimated 230 miles per gallon, the automaker announced Tuesday. That exceptionally high government mileage rating could give the Volt a major [...]
