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Stop Whining about Netflix

This week's price hikes have the Web in an uproar — but why?
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted July 15, 2011
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When Netflix announced their new pricing plans this week, it was as if they'd kicked a baby. Twitter, Facebook, and even the desolate Google+ ignited as thousands cried out in horror: "How dare you raise your prices!" "I'm cancelling my subscription!" and the terseless "Netflix is making their service more "convenient" by charging me $5 more a month. Thanks a lot."

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OpEd: Ownership in the Age of the Cloud

Is convenience just another word for nothing left to lose?
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted July 6, 2011
I am not a luddite. In fact, barring cybernetic augmentations (bring 'em on), I'd say I'm about as far from a luddite as one could be. I love technology. Thanks to my job, I'm often the first of my circle to have the latest gadget. I've got tons of Apple iStuff, a beloved Android phone, an oversized HDTV, 18MP DSLR, and yadda yadda.
Yet, I still buy CDs.

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Forecast continues to be Cloudy

Pogoplug makes running your own personal cloud server even simpler
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 22, 2011
Everybody's heading to the cloud these days, of course (even Best Buy is launching a service), but various little glitches along the way have made some of us reconsider trusting our data to somebody else's distributed network.

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Review: Arcam rCube

The British high-end specialists pack some out of the box thinking into their little cube
- By Michael Berk
- Posted June 2, 2011
OK...I'll get this out of the way upfront. Despite the great reviews it's received, before I'd actually encountered it in person I was suspicious of the rCube. Arcam's a company I know and trust, they build a fantasic line of products (including some impressive all-in-one systems), and they know their wireless and DAC design.

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Bamboom goes the extra mile to (maybe) meet your mobile streaming needs

Bamboom does an end run around rebroadcasting, aims to bring live TV to mobile devices
- By Michael Berk
- Posted May 31, 2011
It's proven to be surprisingly difficult to get streaming TV — and we're not talking on-demand stuff, just live, local, over-the-air TV — onto mobile devices.

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Buffalo Technology CloudStor Network-attached storage Server

Come into my cloud
- By Al Griffin
- Posted May 26, 2011
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Review: Sonos S5 ZonePlayer and 3.4 System Update

AirPlay support and an Android app keep the wireless pioneer current
- By Michael Berk
- Posted May 23, 2011
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Will Apple Kill Custom?

The growing number of AirPlay-compatible audio devices has the custom installation industry worried.
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted May 11, 2011
Technologies that distribute audio and video around a home are incredibly cool—if you can afford them, if you can tolerate complicated installation, and if you can figure out how to use them once they’re in.

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Boxee rolls out 1.1 update

The set-top box and one-stop DIY HTPC gets a revamped look, extra features.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted May 11, 2011
We took a look at the Boxee Box (and some of its competitors in the connected-set-top box universe) earlier this week, and today the company announced an OS update (set to roll out over the next few da

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Momentum...mobile...and more from the Googleplex

Google I/O developer conference kicks off; cloud music service likely to be announced.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted May 10, 2011
Following yesterday's YouTube announcement, Google should have even more big news today — the Google I/O developer conference kicks off today at noon, with the license-free

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Digital Media Receiver Roundup

Four inexpensive boxes vie for your streaming dollar
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted May 9, 2011
DEFINING A NEW PRODUCT CATEGORY
I'm struggling with this: What do you call these things? Digital Media Streamers? Digital Media Receivers? How about media extenders, media streamers, or digital media adapters? Maybe Internet Streaming Devices? If you abbreviate that last one, it sounds a bit sinister. "Dude, I got an ISD." Annnnnnnd, you're on a list somewhere.

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Cutting the Cord?

Consumers are watching more streaming content than ever, and fewer and fewer have TV sets — but are they abandoning cable?
- By Michael Berk
- Posted May 6, 2011
Two recent surveys have come to different conclusions on whether or not American consumers are abandoning cable in favor of Web-based on-demand and streaming media.

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