Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on October 11, 2011 at 6:03 pm PT
The iPhone 4S is one of Apple’s less dramatic updates, but, when combined with the Siri, iOS 5 and iCloud features, it presents an attractive new offering to smartphone users, writes Walt.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 31, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
Walt answers a reader’s question on set-top boxes streaming movies in high definition.
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Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 8, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Cisco Systems has cut the price of its umi video-calling system for consumers, a flashy offering released in October to great fanfare–and widespread criticism about how much it cost.
The network-equipment giant on Monday said it is reducing the price of the existing umi system to $499 from $599, and introduced a $399 version with reduced high-definition resolution that requires a slower Internet connection.
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Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 16, 2010 at 3:52 pm PT
Gary Shapiro promises more cool stuff than ever at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in early January. But the trade group leader sounds less than enthusiastic about one of the most talked-about topics, 3D television.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 11, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Do you watch most of your television in HD, or standard definition?
Even though 56 percent of U.S. households have high-def, more than 80 percent of television viewing is still done in standard definition, according to a report this week by Nielsen.
Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm PT
Katie compares digital cameras for potential buyers as they begin their search for gifts during the holiday season.
Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2010 at 5:16 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown dragged my weary bag of bones to downtown San Francisco for the unboxing of a new consumer telepresence product from Cisco called Umi.
The networking giant is making yet another big foray into the competitive space for,
well, space in the living room.
At the event, Cisco dubbed Umi as sweet as chocolate. Is it?
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:37 am PT
In a post last week, BoomTown wrote that Cisco would introduce a consumer telepresence product.
It did today at San Francisco at a press event. It is called, inexplicably, ?mi telepresence.
I’ll be honest, it sounds like sushi I refuse to eat.
In any case, Cisco’s entry into the crowded consumer video-chat arena will be $599 with $24.99 monthly fee and can be used with a high-definition television.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 21, 2010 at 7:03 am PT
Yet another news aggregator? Yup. And this one is even more meta than most: Muck Rack Daily is a news service dedicated to telling you what journalists are saying, via Twitter, about the news. Indulgent and navel-gazing? Perhaps. Also potentially useful.
