Electronics. Entertainment. Gadgets.
New Media Addict
By Dave Thomas
About David
Dave Thomas is the online editor-in-chief of E-Gear. When he's not tracking online trends he likes to make movies, eat pasta or just sit around watching Doctor Who.Silver's Screen
The Great Laptop Rescue
Mar 12, 2010A Boston man used ingenuity- and special software- to recover his laptops from thieves...
The Letter Box
The Thin Blu Line
Sep 8, 2009The line between technology and content continues to blur....
SXSW 2010 Preview
South by Southwest Interactive 2010 is a little over two weeks away, and I'm getting ready. Here are just a few highlights:
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Now You Can Watch Your TV on...Your TV
At the 2009 OnScreen Media Summit, Cox Communications Senior Veep of Programming Bob Wilson said that his company is going to focus on "TV Anytime" as opposed to "TV Everywhere" (according to Video Business). That is to say Cox has more faith in the viability of time-shifting than place-shifting. The recent news of every online video service under the sun suddenly popping up on devices other than PCs seems to bear him out.
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The Mobile Phone Is the PC of Africa - The Movie
UZI Magazine has posted a 42-minute documentary on Vimeo called Hello Africa. It's about how mobile phone use is changing the business, personal and artistic lives of Africans. For at least a year now, I've been hearing that the mobile phone is the PC of Africa (not to mention Russia and China), and the numbers presented in this doc tend to bear that out. It's easily the most ubiquitous piece of technology there, outnumbering and outpacing personal computers, television sets and land...
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The Web's Jazz: Why Twitter Works - When It Does
Barring the odd DOS attack (which may have originated in Russia - what?), Twitter seems to be working just fine. But why? Beyond the hype, some of which can be attributed to the fact that nothing attracts a media circus like a media circus, what - if any - merit helps it achieve a level of popularity that draws a crowd in the first place?
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Sue First, Team Up Later
As Pirate Bay looks to go the Napster route of turning legit, another formerly contentious Web site is making deals with The Man. Last year, Redlasso was sued (almost out of existence) by several media companies for their media-clipping services. In April, one of those companies struck a deal with Redlasso to syndicate that company's content.
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