the State of Flux

This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, I looked at ways to watch the movies, music and television shows stored on our computer on a standard television screen.
More and more people are now storing music, movies and television shows in digital format and watching them directly on their television screens. [...]

More and more people are now storing music, movies and television shows in digital format and watching them directly on their television screens.
The main benefits of this are

Convenience. It’s much easier to turn on the television and scan through a list of titles than standing in front of a shelf with your head turned sideways [...]

A lot has happened since AT&T confirmed they would be selling contract-free iPhones, including…

In the United Kingdom, O2 started giving them away to customers willing to sign a 24 month contract instead of the usual 18 months.
In the United States, Apple has also started selling the iPhone in their retail stores without the regular AT&T [...]

United States cellular telephone company AT&T has finally confirmed to the Associated Press that it will start selling the popular iPhone without a contract next Thursday.
The catch?
The new phones will still be “locked” to AT&T and won’t work with any other cellular carrier unless they’re modified. AT&T will only activate them on the regular iPhone [...]

Last week, Apple announced their third generation iPod shuffle. The new version is so small that the controls don’t fit on the body and are actually located on the earphone cable.
Personally I don’t understand why anybody would want a music player that’s so small you could lose it among the lint in [...]