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 […]

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, […]

FitBit

A textbook on telemedicine (Fong, Fong, & Li, 2011) was quite interesting. I am especially interested in telemonitoring for the purpose of recording cardiac activity for the purpose of predicting impending heart failure. I expect a huge growth in the use of telemonitoring for home health care, and it seems that the consumer electronics industry, […]

The New MacBook Pro

Microsoft this week displayed a stark contrast in their marketing strategy versus Apple.  With great fanfare Microsoft announced their new tablet computer called the Surface.  CNET described it as an “attempted market freeze” (See Microsoft attempts market freeze with Surface preview).  The reason for the CNET commentary is that the Surface was announced with fanfare, […]