Archive for January, 2009
FyreTV&;s Wireless PornServer
January 27, 2009
There seemed to be plenty of leakage at the Consumer Electronics Show this year from the Adult Entertainment Expo. (And vice versa; Fox Home Video was promoting the &;legit&; release Choke, starring Angelica Huston and Sam Rockwell, by distributing faux anal beads at the adult show.)
A case in point is FyreTV (www.fyreTV.com) which used one of the press parties at the &;legitimate&; show to demonstrate what it proudly called &;the world&;s first wireless IPTV set-top box (or BoXXX, as they would have it) for streaming DVD adult content.&;
The wireless &;BoXXX&; ships with any new subscription, which starts at $9.95. The company signed to provide content from such stalwarts of the industry as Vivid, Wicked Pictures, Evil Angel, Seymore Butts and Sin City, among many others.
Is there a catch? According to one spokesman I talked to, it&;s no &;all the porn you can eat&; plan. The $9.95 basic service offers just 100 minutes a month, giving users an incentive to limit their &;viewing&; to 3 minutes a day.
Just don&;t fall asleep&;
Tags:Adult-Entertainment-Expo, BoXXX, CES, Choke, Consumer Electronics, FyreTV, porn, Sam-Rockwell, technology, technology-journalism Posted in 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, CES, porn, porn-industry, Television | 2 Comments &;
Say Sayonara to SteveJobs
January 22, 2009
Although I am not an Apple fanatic, I do wish the best for Steve Jobs as a person. Being sick and focusing on getting better is no picnic.
That said, I think he should make a final break with Apple, in the same way that Bill Gates receded from Microsoft. Lost in the happy news about Apple beating estimates in a shitty market today was this news about an SEC investigation into Apple&;s disclosure policies about his illness.
The investigation and Apple&;s non-disclosures (such as the &;hormone imbalance&; sham) suggest the company took a &;Weekend at Bernie&;s&; approach to propping up the great man. And as usual, the dwindling band of technology &;journalists&;/Apple syncophants didn&;t ask the hard questions.
While the Woz is right that Apple can survive with Jobs, the company needs to go cold turkey now.
Tags:Apple-Computers, bill-gates, Steve-Jobs, Steve-Wozniak, technology-journalism Posted in business-journalism, technology, technology-journalism | Leave a Comment &;