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Blackberry email outage

Douglas Cebik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:00:38 +0000

Until the read the following article, I couldn’t figure out why my Blackberry was not retrieving my email. It turns out the Blackberry email service was down for nearly 12 hours, from 12:00am PST until about 12 noon today. Only in the past hour has my Blackberry retrieved all emails sent to me during [...]

What Sports Illustrated Might Feel Like on a Tablet

Douglas Cebik — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:59:53 +0000

Here is an excellent video released today, of the experience we can expect from the rumored upcoming Apple Tablet and competing Tablet devices. Based on my market intelligence, we should expect a device with capabilities such as this from Apple in the first half of 2010.

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Gates Previews IPTV, Home Server

Douglas Cebik — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:21:36 +0000

http://www.twice.com/article/CA6405090.html

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave a sneak peak at two upcoming products — IPTV for Xbox 360 and the Windows Home Server — during his keynote address last night, while continuing to bang the drum to support the upcoming launch of the Vista operating system.

Thomson rolls 30GB iPod competitor

Douglas Cebik — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:24:05 +0000

Dylan McGrath EE Times (10/11/2006 2:35 AM EDT) SAN FRANCISCO — Becoming the latest to challenge the Apple iPod stranghold on the market for personal multimedia players, French consumer electronics specialist Thomson Tuesday (Oct. 10) announced retail availability in the U.S. of the Lyra X3030 pocket-sized 30-gigabyte personal multimedia recorder from the [...]

Microsoft announced Zune Pricing at $249

Douglas Cebik — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:48:42 +0000

SEATTLE, Sept. 28 (AP) —The Zune music player from Microsoft looks like an iPod, acts like an iPod and will cost about the same as an iPod. The company said Thursday that it would charge $249.99 for the device, signaling that it is not planning a price war to gain market share.

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Zune vs. iPod: Will Microsoft Get a Piece of the Apple Pie?

Douglas Cebik — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:58:53 +0000

The world is abuzz with Microsoft’s announcement that they’re no longer content to support devices from Iriver and Creative Labs and other partners as they have in the past, and they will now be coming out with their own branded handheld multimedia device for this year’s holiday season — the Zune.

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Microsoft Formally Unveils Zune Player

Douglas Cebik — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:32:30 +0000

Microsoft Corp. unveiled details of its first Zune digital media player, which it hopes to have in stores this holiday season to challenge Apple Computer Inc.’s popular iPod players.

The Zune will come in white, brown and black versions

The Redmond, Wash., giant said its Zune player will be available in three [...]

Apple forges path to digital living room

Douglas Cebik — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:14:57 +0000

CNET Coverage: Movies can be downloaded in near-DVD quality, Jobs said during his presentation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Consumers with broadband speeds of 5 megabits per second will be able to download movies from iTunes in 30 minutes, he added.

Apple also plans to introduce a product in the first quarter [...]

Apple unveiled several new iPod models, including a matchbook-sized player and an iPod with greater capacity. The company also announced several enhancements to iTunes, including movie downloads and videogames.

Douglas Cebik — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:47:36 +0000

Apple introduces the New iPod

Apple Unveils the New iPod shuffle

Apple Introduces the New iPod nano

Apple Announces iTunes 7 with Amazing New Features

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NYTimes: If You Buckle Up, They Will Watch

Douglas Cebik — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:37:47 +0000

THESE are discouraging times for the “Kill Your Television” crowd, which has long feared that video entertainment will zombify the masses. Miniature screens blaring movies and games are more prevalent than ever, especially in the hands of urbanites; sidewalks brim with pedestrians more interested in watching “Underworld” on their Sony PlayStation Portables than in [...]