Weighing Devices for Your Netflix Delivered via Web (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)
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 ...
Blockbuster Working With Microsoft To Deliver Movies To Mobile Devices, Eventually (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
Blockbuster may have taken a while to release a set-top box to let consumers download movie rentals from the web to their television, but according to the Dallas Morning News its working with partner Microsoft to develop more services to allow people to watch films on mobile devices.
Why You Should Wait to Buy a Set-Top Box (BusinessWeek)
Switched On: Blockbuster box boxes blocks to bust (Engadget)
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. January 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from something that transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine that allowed direct ordering over broadband. In doing so and cutting a few dollars off the price, the company ...
Try reconnecting for Christmas season (Columbia Basin Herald)
Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is underway. In our house, the colorful lights, tree and brightly wrapped boxes of gifts do not come out of closets until the day after Thanksgiving.
Detecting cancer with laser printing tech (ZDNet)
Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, explains how the company applied its history of laser printing technology to the bio-medical fieldâ€and came up with the fastest method for scanning slides for cancer cells available today. by Administrator
Blockbuster's New Movie Player Stifled by Rental Rules (US News & World Report)
Studios burden rentals with time limits that make subscriptions more attractive
How to hire innovators (ZDNet)
Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, explains how the company really got into clean tech. By hiring curious and passionate people, management doesn't even need to hand down directives—employees get together and start these things all on their own.
Lowering costs with clean tech (ZDNet)
Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per watt—making solar an even more cost-effective option.
PARC VP, hardware systems laboratory: Scott Elrod (ZDNet)
Scott Elrod, vice president of the hardware systems laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center, talks to CNET’s Dan Farber about researching and supporting innovation at one of Silicon Valley’s most storied tech institutions. He discusses new advancements in erasable ink, clean tech and what it takes to stay on the edge of innovation.
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