Time Warner Cable’s Lack Of Ambition Apparent In Q1 Earnings
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My old haunt reports flat performance.
There’s still some debate about whether people are “cutting the cord”, but Time Warner Cable felt it super hard and real this quarter when they announced a welcome batch of 143,000 new high-speed internet customers (which was below expectations) and the subtraction of 118,000 video customers (which was greater than expectations). Their response? “We’re stepping up our retention game.”
2013: A Phone Odyssey
Phones suck. Really they do!
Ahhh, 2013: The Year My Phone Failed. Things have been crap so far this year, but hopefully I’m going to have more luck this time around.
I’ve owned a lot of phones over the years. The first was one of those old-fashioned bag phones that looked like a really lame purse with an antenna. From there I had one of the big brick phones, a bunch of flip phones from companies like Samsung, LG and Motorola; even that Nokia that was so popular back in the day… you know, the one they made clear cases and flashing batteries and all that crap for? Yeah, I had one.
No New Apple Products Until Fall Is A Bummer
Except not.
Apple is sitting on $146 billion. It’s a lot of money. It’s not all necessarily within arm’s reach and (now) a huge chunk of it is going to investors, to the tune of an additional $50 billion, but there was some bad news on Apple’s earnings call today. That they made less money year over year is simply a sign of their times, but the worst news came when Tim Cook announced they won’t have any new products until at least September. I’m not even an Apple fan, but yish.
Did You Suffer From iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Issues? Expect Your $15 Check Soon!
Don’t you remember when iPhones only had four rows of buttons?
Remember Antennagate, the iPhone’s first big scandal? Okay, so it was a bit hyped up by the media (not us, obviously), but Apple wound up losing a $53 million lawsuit about the issue, which means that the complaints must have had some kind of merit, right? Well, now it’s time for Apple to start writing checks and if you made a claim, yours should be on its way!
What Kind Of Idiot Tries To Sell Their Google Glass Explorer Kit?
You’re gonna buy it anyway, why not use it?
Apparently, a guy named Ed in Philly. Y’see, Ed got word via Twitter that he was one of the few selected to receive one of the first Google Glass headsets. This gizmo is so rare that people are being hand-selected for the opportunity to purchase one of them at the price of $1,500. So what happens when he finds out he’s getting one? He puts it on eBay.
Mars One Opens Astronaut Registration, Expects 1M People To Apply For One-Way Trip
These little huts could be your residence for the rest of your life!
You’re strapped in a ship on a seven-month journey to Mars. You’re at the peak of your fitness, the most expert of your expertise and along with your three teammates, you’re shepherding the first equipment to found the first Martian colony. It’s a $6 billion bill for the whole ticket and you’re being filmed the entire time because your participation will be the basis of a reality show back home. Home, Earth, a place you’ll never see with your own eyes again because, this is a one-way trip.
Google Glass Specs Highlight Some Interesting Performance Trade-Offs
I want one yesterday, but what’s inside?
As the first Google Glass Explorer kits are making their way out to new owners everywhere, the mini-computer’s specs are also finding their way out into the open, in part falling in line with what we expected from such a small device, but in part delivering on some unknowns about the device. Now that we know more, we can certainly see how Google Glass will work in our day-to-day life.
Facebook To Add Individual TV Show Episodes, Movies To Listings
Consume all of the data, Facebook! All of it!
Today, Facebook announced a partnership with Rovi, owners of TV Guide and tons of entertainment data. What does this mean for the you and me? Standards, man, standards.
Windows 8 To Go Back In Time, Add Start Menu And Desktop Launch? Really?
The future, mysterious…
Word coming across the intertubes today is that with Microsoft’s new Windows 8.1/Blue upgrade, some options can be toggled to revert the OS to a more primordial form. This despite all the headway Microsoft had to make bringing Windows 8’s “OS on top of an OS” aesthetic to life and communicating it to the customer. Well, apparently Windows 8 is being flagged as the reason why PC sales are dying, so Microsoft’s gotta react somehow, right?
The Netbook Will Be Dead In 2 Years, Says iSuppli
Remember these?
Remember that time when smartphones just weren’t big enough and laptops just weren’t small enough and tablets just weren’t there enough? That’s a space where companies like Asus and Acer provided tons of really small laptops, a kind of computer that no doubt inspired the Chromebook, without the guts needed to push HD video, but more than enough to be productive writing and doing some light web surfing. Netbooks thrived in this space where the iPad didn’t exist until, obviously, the iPad came to form and people realized these little Windows-powered devices just weren’t scratching that itch anymore.
