Tag Archive 'sony'

Six ways to save beaucoup bucks on electronics

Whether it’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday, or Stupid Bloody Tuesday, you can find great deals on gadgets and gear this season — if you know where to look.
The economy may be going to hell in a shopping basket, but you wouldn’t know it from the crowds I saw at my local Big Box store [...]

DVDs are Dying – and Movies May Be Next

The future of entertainment can be found inside a game console
Hi, my name is Dan and I have a problem with electronics. (“Hi, Dan.”)
As a professional gadget wrangler, my home often looks like an electronics warehouse. These days my living room is filled with devices designed to deliver content from the Internet to my [...]

Sony Playstation Store: We Own You for Life -UPDATED

One of the perks of doing what I do for a living is that companies send me stuff to play with. Recently I wrote a couple of stories about game consoles and movie download services, so I got Sony’s PR firm to send me a PlayStation 3. (But not a new PS3 - the one [...]

Lame and Lamer: 10 Dumbest Viral Marketing Campaigns

You can’t force anything to ‘go viral’ on the Internet, but that didn’t stop these 10 companies from giving it a big, dumb try. Guess who topped the list.
(This post originally appeared on PCworld.com)

Sure, it looks easy enough. Post a video of yourself wiggling your butt on Wii Fit, dancing your way across the globe, [...]

Amazon’s wonderful terrible amazing awful Kindle

I finally got my hands on a Kindle. Here’s what I like about it — and what needs to be fixed.

The Kindle is amazing and awful, grand and terrible. It’s a groundbreaking device that’s in need of an overhaul. I like it and it annoys me all at the same time. Have I made that [...]

The Really Big Show on My Wall Every Night

Front-projector TVs can be the least expensive way to get the big picture in high definition–but read this before investing your hard-earned cash in one.
(This originally appeared in the May 08 issue of PC World magazine.)
by Dan Tynan
You can have your plasmas and LCDs, your CRTs and rear-projection DLPs. When it comes to watching a [...]