2 posts and columns on wireless home network

Friends and Family Have a New Way to Just Drop In

in Personal Technology on December 17, 2008 at 6:18 pm PT

By Nick Wingfield

Digital-picture frames have started to take off as a way for people to show off their stashes of digital photos in rotating slide shows. A growing number of frames even connect to wireless home networks so they can easily be refreshed with photos stored online and on PCs.

Weighing Devices for Your Netflix Delivered via Web

in Personal Technology on December 3, 2008 at 6:18 pm PT

By Nick Wingfield

Netflix was a pioneer in the business of movie rentals — getting consumers to rent DVDs online and mailing them out in cheery red envelopes. Recently, it has put a lot of effort into a service that delivers movies digitally over the Internet to subscribers, preparing for a day when getting movies on a physical disc will become outmoded.