With Siri TV, Apple Will Dismantle the TV Networks

Though it’s currently only embedded in the new iPhone 4S, Siri could eventually change the face of the TV industry.

Meet Qwilt, Creator of Smart Video-Caching Gear, and New Member of the Flash Madness Club

Coming out of stealth today with $24 million from Redpoint Ventures, Accel and other investors, Qwilt stores copies of the videos that are popular in your neighborhood to help make the network run faster. And? It uses flash memory to do it! Flash Madness continues.
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QOTD: Networks Are Dead, Says Glenn Beck on Eve of New Net Show

I think networks are a thing of the past. I don’t know anybody under 30 who is watching television the way I watched television. Technology has allowed people to change the way they consume the news, and we want to be where people are going.

Former Fox commentator Glenn Beck, whose first show airs Monday on his Internet-only GBTV channel

Hacking Targets Multiply

As everything from cars to electricity meters gets hooked up to the Internet or cellphone networks, it isn’t just PCs that are vulnerable to cyberattacks, security researchers and government officials warn.

Irene, Can You Hear Me Now? FCC Tips for Calling During the Storm

As hurricane Irene marches up the east coast, the folks at the FCC have issued some hints consumers can follow to help keep the windblown cellphone networks in operation during the storm.
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Painful Profits From Web Video

Media companies are starting to cash in on Internet video. But that new money could be coming at a cost as fewer young people watch traditional television.

TV Networks See Key Audience Erode

Fewer young people watched TV on traditional sets over the past television season, the second consecutive year of decline as viewers face a proliferation of ways to watch TV shows.

Verizon’s ThunderBolt Moves Like Lightning

Verizon’s ThunderBolt 4G cellphone is a speed demon, zipping past rival 4G phones’ cellular-data speeds and even past many home land-line Internet connections.
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Risk of Supply Shock From AT&T

Another investor question arising from Monday’s megamerger–which plumbers will AT&T go with? Combined, AT&T and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA spent roughly $11 billion in 2010 on wireless capital expenditures–that is, the plumbing that keeps their networks flowing freely.

Blogs, MacBooks and GSM phones

Walt answers readers’ questions on starting a blog, sleeping MacBooks and GSM phones.

Is Jason Kilar Trying to Get Fired?