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- IT and Hollywood: The reality gap
- In the movies, all you need is access to the Internet to change someone's bank account or to launch nuclear missiles. We know it's all for effect, but how much is too much? by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Information Technology, Hollywood, Liberty, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Don't use conversational shortcuts when communicating
- It's a communication no-no to assume that others will know what you're saying without your having to fully explain it. Here's how the experiences of others can shape the way they hear you. by Toni Bowers
- Tags: Plate, Performance Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Photos: Panasonic rolls out Net-enabled plasma
- The new high-end Panasonic PZ850 boasts a different HDTV experience, including Web capabilities. by CNET News.com
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, CNET News.com, news, panasonic, hdtv
- Image galleries 2008-06-06
- Save your new favorite TV show...before it exists
- As sci-fi fans, we have all felt the unbearable heartache of having our beloved geek-centric television shows heartlessly canceled well before they had their rightfully deserved chance to jump the shark. With some of the most promising sci-fi shows ever produced scheduled to debut later this year, fandom has taken...
- Tags: Public Service, SH, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Photos: Sony's OLED TVs gain star status
- New superthin prototype draws a crowd--including decor guru Martha Stewart--at the D6 technology and media conference.Sony''s ultra thin OLED (organic light-emitting diode) TV at the D6 technology and media conference in Carlsbad, Calif., on Tuesday. The television is less than the thickness of a credit card and will be on...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Photograph, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com, news, sony, tv, oled
- Image galleries 2008-05-29
- Geek Trivia: Beyond the (Hollywood) stars
- To hear the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce tell it, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is equivalent to receiving an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, or Grammy (once again, no love for the Eisners, Nebulas, or Hugos). The iconic stars, which are embedded in sidewalks near Hollywood Boulevard and...
- Tags: Star, Icon, Fame, Disneyland, Ali, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Rundown: Geek movies of summer 2008
- In movie industry terms, the "summer movie season" actually begins before summer, on the first weekend in May (as in, this weekend, which is why we're resurrecting this post from March), and ends before summer, on the last weekend in August. There are 18 geek-centric major motion pictures scheduled for...
- Tags: Film, Anime, Movie, Robots, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- T-shirt of the week: Toaster
- This week's Geekend-approved item of apparel is the Toaster Shirt from Glarkware. This, my friends, is a prime example of a "stealth geek" shirt. To the untrained eye, it appears that the wearer is merely declaring a love for toast and/or retro-futuristic pop art. (There's a pop...
- Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- My first comic book: What got you hooked?
- Further evidence that the geek revolution is upon us, Entertainment Weekly asks 15 of the topic comic book creators working today what classic funnybook got them hooked on the medium. Fantastic Four #1 makes a couple of appearances on the list--which dates some of the creators, as it came out...
- Tags: Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Google wants in to the television "white space"
- Google failed to be a player in the FCC auction that recently ended. Indeed, it was described as the "happy losers" in the 700 MHz space, only having been able to secure "open" definitions to insure that third-party apps would have consideration in that space -- something that we...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Spectrum, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Two weeks with the Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick
- HDTVs have been one of the hottest consumer electronics categories for the past several years; however, you don't need to invest in an HDTV to get HDTV content. Pinnacle has created the PCTV HD Pro Stick to turn your desktop or laptop into an HDTV. Considering that...
- Tags: HDTV, Laptop Computer, Antenna, Pinnacle, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Why is science fiction considered a "geek" genre?
- Our good friends at SFSignal must have run out of qualified candidates to to interview, because they asked Jay "The Trivia Geek" Garmon to answer the same question posed to Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, Keith DeCandido, Carl V. from Stainless Steel Droppings, James from Big Dumb Object, and Angela...
- Tags: Money, Geek, Science Fiction, Productivity, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for February 19
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Quite a tail to tell," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
- Tags: Quibble, Dr., Radiation, Policies And Procedures, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- If sci-fi geeks ran Hollywood...
- A few weeks ago, our buddies over at SFSignal asked a bunch of top-flight sci-fi writers, editors, and bloggers what would happen if, say, a bunch of top-flight sci-fi fans ran Hollywood, rather than the usual collection of business-school rejects and soulless, jaded, film-school burnouts. Now that the Hollywood...
- Tags: Hollywood, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- What's in the official CES 2008 Press Bag?
- See the treasures hidden within the official CES 2008 Press Bag. What, no Sony OLED TV? by Bill Detwiler
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, TechRepublic Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Bill Detwiler, off topic, ces2008, CES, swag, conference, expo, show
- Image galleries 2008-01-29
- EU telecommunications director not solidly behind Internet tax
- At a Munich conference, European Union telecommunications director, Viviane Reding, said that a proposal by France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy to implement a tax on Internet and cell phone networks was not the best way to expand access to new media. From the International Herald Tribune: "I...
- Tags: Advertisement, Telecommunications, Broadcaster, Viviane Reding, Nicolas Sarkozy, Internet, Taxes, TVs, Free Trade, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Planning, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tricia Liebert
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- CES 08: Hands-on with SlingCatcher, SlingPlayer 2.0 & Clip+Sling
- I spent an hour on Tuesday morning getting some hand-on demos of all of the upcoming Sling Media products from Dave Zatz. I had heard a lot of the announcements and saw someone else demo some of the new stuff at Digital Experience on Sunday night....
- Tags: Video, Clip, SlingCatcher, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Web Site Development, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Video: New Knight Rider teaser trailer
- As we've mentioned before, NBC is working up a new Knight Rider television series which serves as a quasi-sequel to the uber-campy Hasselhoff-infested 1980s series--and we've got this teaser trailer to prove it. I'm starting to warm to the casting of Will Arnett as the voice of the new KITT...
- Tags: Video, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- CNET hands out Best of CES 2008 honors, Philips takes top prize
- On Wednesday, TechRepublic's sister site CNET.com announced the winners of the Best of CES 2008 awards: Top winners Best in Show: Philips Eco TV People's Voice: Moto Rokr E8 Category winners Car...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, CNET Networks Inc., Winner, Philips Electronics N.V., Smart Phones, TVs, GPS, Digital Cameras, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Photography, Media Players, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- CES 08: Hitachi unveils 1.5 line of ultra-thin HDTVs
- Hitachi made quite an impact at today's press event. They showed off their new, incredibly thin LCD HDTVs that are only 1.5 *inches* thick. This makes the Hitachi flat-panels, the world's thinnest LCD TVs. Most of the parts for the new 1.5 line...
- Tags: Flat Panel, Hitachi Ltd., HDTV, TVs, Monitors & Displays, Tv & Home Theater, Storage, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
