TiVo racks up a series of wins, proving premium media devices are still relevant

There’s good news for TiVo, as the company yesterday reported a fourth quarter profit of $710,000 for 2013. While that may not sound like reason to celebrate for a multi-million dollar corporation, compared to the company’s $15.8 million loss over the same period last year, it’s kind of a big TiVo has always…

Posted on: February 28, 2014 12:00 pm

Cards, Martinez ’embarrassed’ by images on Twitter

JUPITER, Fla. For the third time already this spring, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny today urged his players to be vigilant and conscientious on social media because one misstep is "one fraction of a second" away from going global. This time he had a readily available example for his meeting with…

Posted on: February 28, 2014 7:00 am

Tivo Founders Launch Qplay For Internet TV

Listen to Larry’s CBS Radio News interview with QPlay co-founder Mike Ramsay TiVo founders Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton revolutionized the way we watch TV by letting us pause and rewind live TV or watch it later without having to mess with a VCR. Tivo-like devices are common today but…

Posted on: February 28, 2014 7:00 am

Boeing Black: This smartphone will self-destruct..

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) on Wednesday unveiled a smartphone that appears to come straight from a James Bond spy movie. In addition to encrypting calls, any attempt to open the casing of the Boeing Black Smartphone deletes all data and renders the device inoperable. The secure…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 5:00 pm

Five features the iPhone 6 ‘must have to stay in the game’

Apple is on the verge of collapse. Its core business selling iPhones is in jeopardy. You might not have realized this, what with Apple having just sold more iPhones in a single quarter than it ever has before while raking in record revenue of $57.6 billion in the process. But Just…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 5:00 pm

Facebook Could Have Controlled the World by Now. Here’s the One Big Reason …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Mobile World Congress on Feb. 24, 2014, in Barcelona, Spain. Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images On May 9, 2008, Facebook won the Internet. Or at least it should have. On that date, in an open letter to the developer community, Dave Morin, then head of Facebook’s…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 12:00 pm

The future of robotics: Not quite magical yet, but more than just dirty jobs

SAN FRANCISCO—When Amazon first unveiled in December its revolutionary delivery drone concept, Prime Air, reactions fell along a spectrum of awe, praise, skepticism, and fear. Regardless of what anyone has said about the project since, one of the undeniable truths is that robots are being accepted into the mainstream as…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 12:00 pm

iPad or laptop: Which is right for you?

Reader Clint Grosse, like many people, faces the "laptop or iPad" decision. He writes:I want to purchase either a 13-inch MacBook or iPad soon. I would only use either when traveling and would primarily need it to check email every day or two, write a document occasionally (I don’t know…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 12:00 pm

New Virus Spreads Like The Common Cold Via WiFi

It started in the laboratory of a university in England. An airborne virus was cultivated. One that could spread like the common cold in densely populated areas, infecting all it came into contact with. It was called Chameleon and it was a computer virus. Chameleon is the product of the…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 12:00 pm

UPDATE 1-TiVo beats on sales, sees gains from Comcast-Time Warner deal

Feb 26 (Reuters) – Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc reported a better-than-expected 20 percent rise inquarterly revenue and said it expects to benefit from ComcastCorp’s $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable. The deal will give Comcast, a key cable customer of TiVo,access to 19 of the 20 largest U.S. TV markets…

Posted on: February 27, 2014 7:00 am