iPhone 5 — Week 1
The first pleasure of each iPhone is to watch the logistical system in action. I ordered the iPhone 5 at six AM on September 14. It shipped from ZhengZhou, China eight days later, and then progressed like a checker across the board to Incheon, Korea; Anchorage; Louisville, Jamaica, NY; Windor Locks, CT; Brookfield, CT; and on to Ridgefield […]
iPhone 5 and Sonos
The first post about the iPhone here at patrickWeb was on January 10, 2007. Many iPhone stories have followed since then. I have to admit that I love the iPhone technology and the many things it makes possible. The iPhone 5 will be the sixth iPhone in my life. The string of past models includes […]
Where’s The Music?
Music has been one of my favorite things for as long as I can remember (see music category here in patrickWeb for stories). Where is my music? Some of it is recorded on circular pieces of vinyl stored in boxes in my attic. The music used to rotate at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute on […]
Media Companies Fighting for Fees — Correction
Thanks to Michael in Alameda, California for catching an error I made in the post about media companies fighting over fees. The company I referred to as Aero is Aereo. I use a website called phenom.aero, so I must have had aero on the brain. I have corrected the original posting. My apology goes out […]
Media Companies Fighting for Fees — Who is Fighting for Consumers?
Earlier this month, 20 million American homes that are subscribed to DirecTV, suddenly could no longer watch Nickelodeon, MTV or Comedy Central. Viacom owns the content and rents it to DirecTV for a fee. Their contract was about to expire and Viacom said DirecTV should pay 30% more. DirecTV said that based on their size, […]
