DirecTV has announced that they will be offering NFL Sunday Ticket to cable subscribers, with a catch.  The video would be delivered over broadband to customers who can’t recieve DirecTV satelite television service. The big issue?  DirecTV is not a broadband provider, and users of the NFL Sunday Ticket service would be using some other company’s internet access.  Perhaps from a cable [...]

Yesterday, Facebook, the big social network you know about and probably have an account on acquired a significantly smaller competitor called FriendFeed. How many of you have ever heard of FriendFeed before?  Raise your hand. Personally, I’ve had a FriendFeed for over a year, yet rarely use it.  Yet I’m happy I have an account there.  It is a social media aggregator, which expands the [...]

This past Friday, the FCC sent letters to Apple, Google and AT&T about the politics of Apple’s decision to reject the Google Voice application for the iPhone. There are many sources reporting on it. I say you check outTechCrunch’s coverage over this good stuff. This is a big change in the FCC, which recently went to a Democratic majority now that Obama is in office.  They reacted [...]