What’s Coming on the Internet in 2011 (Or Not)

Posted on January 2, 2011 by robhof

I know I shouldn’t do it–predictions too often are either obvious or wrong–but I can’t help it. If I have to think about what’s coming in 2011, and I do, I might as well inflict those thoughts on the rest of the world. Isn’t that what blogging is all about? Anyway, here’s what I expect [...]

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What Happened in 2010–and Didn’t

Posted on December 30, 2010 by robhof

Somehow I persuaded myself a year ago to offer up predictions for what would happen in 2010–and what wouldn’t happen. Now it’s time to take my medicine and see how I fared. What I said would happen: * Merger mania will accelerate in technology, especially acquisitions of smaller firms. OK, so it was a bit [...]

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A Glimpse Into the Future of Television

Posted on December 20, 2010 by robhof

If there’s one thing that struck me while I was researching an article on the future of television for Technology Review, it was all the fake living rooms. Google has one. So does Roku. So do Logitech, Sezmi, and Intel (which I believe has several in different states). I’m sure I missed a dozen more. It’s a sign [...]

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Why Google TV Wasn’t a Hit–and Why It’s Too Early to Write It Off

Posted on December 20, 2010 by robhof

After a spate of mostly poor-to-middling reviews, Google TV products due out at the important Consumer Electronics Show in early January have been delayed, according to the New York Times. Although Samsung and Vizio apparently will show new Google TV products–in Vizio’s case, privately–Toshiba, Sharp, and LG Electronics apparently have delayed plans to introduce Google [...]

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Google Chrome OS Notebook: So Far, So OK

Posted on December 9, 2010 by robhof

Wow, that was fast. Just two days after Google introduced its Chrome OS operating system, the reference-design Chrome OS notebook that Google is sending out to journalists, developers, and select consumers showed up on my doorstep. I’m going to spare you a full unboxing and review, partly because Techmeme is full of people who have [...]

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LIVE at Google’s Chrome OS Launch: “Nothing But the Web”

Posted on December 7, 2010 by robhof

When Google announced plans for its own operating system, Chrome OS, in July 2009, many observers thought the company had gone a little Microsoft-crazy. Not so, in my opinion. But for whatever reason, the Web-based operating system–described by Google as essentially the Chrome Web browser with a bunch of software drivers needed to run many [...]

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Google TV’s Search for a Living Room Hit

Posted on November 10, 2010 by robhof

Now that Google TV, the search giant’s shot at bringing the Web to the television, has been out for a few weeks in the form of the Logitech Revue settop box and Sony’s TVs and Blu-ray machine, all eyes are on how it’s doing. Truth be told, it’s still too early to know. But Rishi Chandra, [...]

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Television in the Cloud: ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller at NewTeeVee Live

Posted on November 10, 2010 by robhof

You can’t walk through a Best Buy these days without tripping over another new TV add-on box that lets you watch TV shows and movies from Netflix or Amazon Video On Demand, access apps like Pandora, or even (in the case of Google TV) browse much of the Web. ActiveVideo Networks, though, has a different [...]

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How Will Streaming Video Hit Traditional TV?

Posted on November 3, 2010 by robhof

In the wake of broadcast networks’ controversial decision to block their Web sites from Google TV devices, the power of the broadcast and cable networks to determine how their content will be viewed is top of mind everywhere from Silicon Valley to Hollywood and New York. I was hoping that a panel that was to [...]

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The Long-Awaited Boxee Box Gets a Hollywood Preview

Posted on November 3, 2010 by robhof

Few consumer electronics devices have been more widely anticipated, at least by the more geeky set, than Boxee‘s settop box for bringing Internet content to the TV–since Google TV debuted three weeks ago, anyway. The uniquely shaped Boxee Box will debut on Nov. 10 in New York, adding a potent new player to the rapidly [...]

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