TiVo Premiere fall update starts rolling out with more HD menu screens and a few other tweaks
By Richard Lawler posted Oct 30th 2012 4:11PM We got an early peek at some of the newly revamped menus from TiVo’s fall update a few days ago, and now the company has announced it is officially rolling out to retail Premiere DVRs, with cable-provided boxes getting the update at some point in the future. Those on the priority list are first up so some TiVo Community posters report they’ve already received it and can confirm...
Storm forces Internet hubs to run on generator power
Two monolithic buildings in lower Manhattan that serve as major network hubs for the U.S. are operating on generator power, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. The buildings, known as carrier hotels, are a 2.9 million square foot structure at 111 8th Ave., and a 1.8 million square foot facility at 60 Hudson St. Telecom companies use carrier hotels to interconnect networks to allow data sharing and users of one network to connect with those of...
Apple Introduces iPad mini
Everything you love about iPad — the beautiful screen, fast and fluid performance, FaceTime and iSight cameras, thousands of amazing apps, 10-hour battery life* — is everything you’ll love about iPad mini, too. And you can hold it in one hand. Learn more Read more: Apple Introduces iPad minishe said
iTunes refresh delayed till ‘end of November’
By Terrence O’Brien posted Oct 30th 2012 4:43PM We were all a little shocked when Apple failed to deliver a redesigned iTunes at its last keynote. The company promised a major revamp of the service would land in October yet, here we are with one day left in the month, and no iTunes overhaul in sight. Today Tom Neumayr, a spokesperson for the Cupertino firm, confirmed to AllThingsD that the software release had indeed been pushed...
How-to: Picking a Window Manager
By John Browning posted Oct 30th 2012 4:45PM When using Linux, or just about any open source operating system out there for that matter, there’s a proverbial Santa’s knapsack of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) available. When you boil this topic down on the basic level, you’ve got two choices: Use a fully featured Desktop Environment (DE) with tons of bells and whistles, or alternatively you can use a slimmed-down...
