Vonage UK just inked a new deal with WiFi hotspot provider The Cloud that will allow Vonage customers to make free VoIP calls in any of The Cloud’s 7000+ hotspots (via The Register). This is a pretty interesting development since it starts to bridge the gap between landline and mobile phones. The service will work [...]

For anyone concerned about creating a digital backup of their new HD DVD movies, Warner Home Video may have just the solution for you! Warner just announced that the industry's first Hybrid DVD will be released on May 9th, 2006 and will contain the HD DVD version on one side of the disk with the [...]

Good news out of Redmond is hard to come by these days and the shake up over the leadership of the Microsoft TV group is yet another sign that things aren’t going as planned. It was announced last week that the former division head Moishe Lichtman is resigning his post but will remain with the [...]

There is a lot of industry buzz going on around interactive television these days and there are scores of companies lining up to deliver an interactive experience right in your home. Although it seems natural that this might be the first place we would see some decent interaction, end-user demand and the required technology may [...]

One of the more interesting things to watch over at Apple is the progress associated with their lineup of Airport wireless technology. Apple had the first Airport routers based on the 802.11b standard on the market long before the PC crowd started to adopt WiFi. They also were able to seamlessly upgrade Airport to the [...]

There is a great video tutorial on the key issues surrounding Net Neutrality that have been coming up in the press recently. There is a lot at stake, and even more consumer confusion, around these issues and this video communicates some of the consumer impacts quite well. It’s clear the group that released the video [...]

There is some interesting commentary over at IP Democracy regarding the most recent quarterly announcements by Bell South. Contrary to the price wars being waged in the DSL vs. Cable argument by Verizon and AT&T, Bell South managed to bring in a record number of new DSL subscribers totaling 263,000 for the quarter at an [...]

Someone with a fast hand over at Dailytech noticed that Seagate accidentally released a PDF specification of their new 750GB Barracuda drives. These new drives will be available in both PATA and SATA based on the new perpendicular recording technology ranging in capacity from 200 to 750GB. The Seagate website already lists the Barracuda 7200.10 [...]