For the longest time, I walked around with three devices. I had my trusty Motorola V710 cell phone, a SanDisk Sansa mp3 player (a m200 then a c240) and a Palm Zire 31 PDA. For more than 5 years, I was quite content. After 5 faithful years of service, my cell phone started to show its age and its unwillingness to work reliably with my cell phone service, Verizon Wireless. Being that I'd made my cell phone last as long as it did, my wife and I decided to move to smart phones. I upgraded to the HTC Touch Pro2 and I convinced my wife she should get the Motorola Droid. Within two weeks of our purchase, I'd traded my HTC in for a Motorola Droid of my own. I'm an avid Windows user and I've worked with a few Windows Mobile devices. But the features in the Droid were too compelling. It's been four months and I couldn't be happier. The Motorola Droid has successfully replaced all the gadgets I'd walked around with. It performs it's primary function as a cell phone very well. The intuitive interface made it easy to work with right from the get go. Of course, phone functionality isn't it's ...

I may not be old enough to remember the birth of the Internet, but I have been around long enough to see its introduction and growth outside in the workplace and family household. A lot has changed since the time my family first connected to the Internet. Internet connection speeds are 200 times faster. Web pages have grown from text with gray background to rich multimedia experiences. We live in a world where steaming audio is no longer a theory; we are surrounded by streaming HD video. Video sites similar to YouTube and Hulu have been instrumental in showing the value of streaming video over the Internet. The public has proven they yearn to be free of the evening line-up and make TV fit their schedule rather than the other way around. Many broadcast companies and media outlets have added alternative methods for the distributing television shows, movies and other video content. Current strides in multimedia delivery mechanisms are also showing the big conglomerates that consumers don't always want to be tied to their computer when interacting with multimedia via the Internet.  Take for instance the Apple TV or Netflix's arrangement with Microsoft's Xbox. People feel validated that they didn't throw away ...

Every month, most Microsoft Windows users receive a small prompting. It may be in a small yellow shield in the System Tray (part of the Taskbar) or a prompt to restart the computer. This is only a reminder of the bugs and errors that Microsoft is constantly fixing; also known as patches.

A few weeks ago, Hulu.com made its move from being privately tested to open to the public. Hulu.com is a video site. Video sites come and go on a daily basis. What makes this one special? Hulu.com is the combine efforts of various television networks and movie studios to compete with the YouTube and YouTube look-a-likes. One of the major struggles between major networks and video content sites is the control of copyrighted content. People want to be able to post clips and mash ups of their favorite shows whereas networks want to make money from their copyrighted material. If the networks can't control the content, how can they monetize on the material?