AT&T has launched a new version of its U-verse app for iPhone users. It’s designed to let AT&T U-verse customers schedule recordings on the go — and download and watch some TV content on their mobile phone. AT&T says this makes the company the first TV provider with a mobile app that doesn’t just let you … Read more
Let me preface my critique of YouTube’s captioning feature by saying I appreciate Google’s attempt to make YouTube video more accessible. And I’m sure it’s no easy programatic feat to transcribe audio on such a large scale of widely disparate content. However, for someone who obviously enunciates as poorly as I do while using significant amounts of … Read more
While Netflix shifts their focus to online streaming, Comcast (?!) and Blockbuster have teamed to provide DVDs By Mail — a soon-to-be-archaic method of content distribution and quintuply befuddling given Comcast’s large data conduit into millions of customer’s homes. I assume DVDs By Mail is primarily a marketing arrangement on Comcast’s end and potentially good for … Read more
Ahead of Monsoon Multimedia actually shipping the Vulkano “God Box” later this month, their iPhone/iPad client has landed in Apple’s app storefront. Vulkano is the successor to Monsoon’s Slingbox-esque HAVA, and I suspect the new Vulkano Mobile app (v1.2.101) is an enhanced version of HAVA Mobile (v1.1.28) to now support the iPad and iOS4. While I … Read more
Windows Phone 7 may be Microsoft’s vision of the future of smartphone operating systems… but it’s certainly looking more and more like a device that’s stuck in 2007. We already knew Windows Phone 7 would ship without copy and paste functionality and with limited multitasking support. Now it looks like the WP7 web browser won’t … Read more
To close out our initial Clear iSpot coverage, I shot a screencast to walk you through MAC spoofing (on a Mac), provide a look at the device’s local web UI, and demonstrate solid speeds on the edge of the 4G WiMax network. Earlier iSpot coverage: Clear iSpot 4G: Best Deal in Mobile Broadband? Unboxing the … Read more
More fun today with Clear’s 4G iSpot… If you missed the unboxing and need some background, start here. Otherwise, let’s talk speed. Based on cursory testing while driving through weak to good coverage areas, as indicated by the iSpot’s glowing indicator, my iPhone download throughput ranged from the high hundreds to the mid 2000kbps (below … Read more
A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our friends at EngadgetHD: TiVo Premiere vs Windows 7 Media Center These are the best DVR options out there for a reason and both are very compelling. While Media Center excels in most areas that count, it is also the hardest to setup and support which means it … Read more