Our Fall 2017 – 18 Technology Preview
By Joey Babbitt and Marti Cook (With Gary Kaye, Richard Sherwin, Elisabeth NG, Brandon Schwartz and Ilinca Tuvene with Tech50plus.com) It’s Fall and the new technology is starting to come out in preparation for the holiday season. The Samsung Note8 launched last week (see our featured article here) and other companies have announced new technology […]
Summer Sizzlers and Bytes and Pieces
By Susan Davis, Ilinca Tuvene, Elisabeth Ng and Richard Sherwin LG Electronics officially introduced its futuristic Levitating Portable Speaker. The almost mystical wireless speaker (model PJ9) hovers in place over the accompanying Levitation Station to deliver high quality audio and had the media oohing and aahing . The Pj9 also enables users to seamlessly play […]
Consumer Tech for March: Where the iPod and iPad really Came from
By Richard M. Sherwin, Robert Plunkett and the staff of Digital Family Advisor How Dell, HP and others missed the tablet boat. Around 20 years ago, in a cafe about two blocks from one of the biggest newspapers in the country, two feature reporters with very little tech savvy were peering through clouds of cigar and cigarette smoke when a PR lady from Compaq Computer, a slightly eccentric looking engineer scientist from Sony and a local disk jockey from a popular radio station came sashaying into the semi private meeting room in the back of the bar. They showed us a device the size of a transistor radio, perhaps a little bigger, that was playing what seemed like prerecorded top 40 hits. But there was no tape and the device was very light weight, almost as if there was nothing inside. The device had an AM-FM radio and
Another WEB TV? Or a Real Merger of Technologies?
Our Reporter on the Scene tries to find out.. By Livia Bergovoy The long awaited introduction of Sony’s version of Google TV (with Intel inside) was promising at best. And, at the same time confusing at worst. Presented by Bob Ishida, Sony's Head of Worldwide Home Entertainment Business, Sony officially said it was going after a younger generation with this initiative, but if you're like I am, you are watching more and more of your TV shows on line via