Dave Zatz

Motorola: 50 Million Served

Dan Moloney, President of Motorola Connected Home Solutions Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola Love it or hate it, Motorola has shipped more cable boxes than anyone. We’re talking 50 million units… including 8 million HD-capable, 5 million DVR, and over 2,000 cable headends. I’ve had the dual-tuning HD 6412 in my home on three separate … Read more

Never enough time… New Sony LocationFree LF-B20 with WiFi reviewed. (CNET) Is that a laser in your TV, or are you just happy to see me? (Australian AP) Nielsen’s commercial/advertising tracking effort stumbles. (NY Times) Another day, another web site streaming pirated TV. (WebTVHub)

Let’s Get Ready To Rumble: Moxi v TV Guide, Part 1

The story so far… September, 2006 Digeo, maker of the Moxi DVR, files an antitrust lawsuit against Gemstar, the TV Guide electronic/interactive programming guide folks, as described in the Seattle Times: The rivalry between Digeo and Gemstar surfaced Thursday in federal court in Seattle, where Digeo filed a lawsuit claiming that Gemstar violated federal and … Read more

Sony Joins Sling In Offering Symbian Support

Sony’s announcement to offer a Symbian LocationFree player (for the P990 initially) comes as no surprise, given their OS of choice on Sony-Ericsson phones. What is surprising is that the software should be available very soon… and in countries other than the US. Sony writes: Owners of the Sony Ericsson P990 smartphone can now enjoy … Read more

Picture of the Day: It Lives

MacBook & SlingPlayer @ DigitalLife For more Mac Sling coverage, check out a video interview and demo from DigitalLife and mysteriously obtained (large) screenshots.

Buy 1 iPod, Get 1 Virus Free!

In two separate incidents, digital music players have recently shipped with Windows malware payloads. I don’t even know where to begin. Mistakes happen, but this boggles the mind. My first question is: Was this malicious or accidental? An accident is more likely preventable, while a malicious act is probably harder to block. Dabbling in computer … Read more

Slinging Scoreboard to Scoreboard

Last weekend, Washington State U streamed the live football video footage and audio commentary to U Cal, Berkeley’s Jumbotron using a Slingbox. CEO Blake Krikorian shot some video at Cal’s stadium, where about 3,000 fans showed up to watch. Not only is this a cool demo of Sling’s technology, but it’s interesting in the sense that they bypassed the television network infrastructure to broadcast content one->many — YouSlingTube anyone?

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