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.

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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.

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