Hasta La Gadget!

Just in case a throwaway mention of a streaming-only subscription for US customers wasn’t enough, an agreement adding plenty of recognizable content from NBC to its Watch Instantly service might help Netflix distract from a recent string of PR gaffes. Starting next week, cable shows from the media giant’s stable like Psych, Battlestar Galactica and others, episodes from the most recent seasons of NBC shows including The Office and 30 Rock will be available. Not good enough? Why not throw in every season of Friday Night Lights and Saturday Night Live, with new eps of SNL added the day after they air for the next three years. Seems like a win/win to us, with many hours of new content for Netflix while NBC cashes a fat check for old seasons of Monk and Law & Order:SVU — as much as we love Tony Shalhoub as a neurotic private investigator, those DVD boxed sets just weren’t moving like they used to. The only question left is whether HD streaming for any of these is on deck, until we hear back just check out the full press release after the break.

Continue reading Netflix, NBC Universal content deal brings Battlestar Galactica, SNL and more to Watch Instantly

Netflix, NBC Universal content deal brings Battlestar Galactica, SNL and more to Watch Instantly originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Netflix  | Email this | Comments

Been itching to wrap your mitts around the latest Final Fantasy chapter? Well, we trust you’ve already obtained the FF XIV-endorsed WiFi router from Planex, so why not complete the set with the official PC controller from Sunflex? Coming in a snowy white enclosure, it doesn’t stray far from the Dual Shock recipe that most PC gamepad makers like to cook from, although it does offer curiously elongated hand grips. Are Final Fantasy players generally larger than the average gamer or is this just a more ergonomic design for those 20-hour grinding sessions in the world that Square Enix built?

Final Fantasy XIV PC controller debuts in dazzling white originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Kotaku  | Email this | Comments

Perhaps dissatisfied with the glacial pace of Wibree, Qualcomm’s working on an ultra-low-power, short-range wireless transfer tech of its own — it’s called Peanut, and executives claim it only needs “fractions of a milliwatt of power” to push data at several megabits per second. Computerworld got the scoop on the new low-power radio at EmTech@MIT 2010, and reports that Qualcomm’s had these goobers in the oven since 2006 and is looking to trump the likes of ZigBee and Bluetooth by this time next year. Assuming, of course, the Peanut standard doesn’t require a molasses-like committee of its own to attain formal approval.

Qualcomm’s Peanut challenges ZigBee, Bluetooth for control of your personal area network next year originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Computerworld  | Email this | Comments

This article was written on January 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

I’m sure many of you use Wikipedia on a regular basis for information, but did you know that Wikipedia also has RSS feeds available for keeping up with changes to your favorite articles? To get an RSS feed for a particular article just go to the Wikipedia page for it, and click on the History tab located along the top. Now in the far left column you should see a section toward the bottom called Toolbox. In there are two links for RSS and Atom syndication formats, which you can use in your feed reader.

You might be wondering why anyone would want to subscribe to feeds for a particular article. Wikipedia is a very well updated source when it comes to recent events. It’s also a great way to find out what’s happened in previous episodes of television shows (example), and by subscribing to RSS feeds you’re able to read what’s happened as soon as the article gets updated.

If you decide that you can never get enough of Wikipedia there is also this main RSS feed which lists out recent changes to every single article on the site. Just remember, there are a lot of changes being made to Wikipedia every second, so that feed is sure to keep you busy for awhile.

Don’t forget to checkout the other useful ways that you can use RSS feeds.

Copyright © 2010 CyberNet | CyberNet Forum | Learn Firefox

Related Posts:

Wikipedia Publishes Its Millionth Article…WOW!CyberNet’s Year in Review: November-DecemberCombine Your Feeds into One with FeedBlendrAdd Tabbed Feeds To Your Google HomepageWhich is More Accurate: Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica?

Clearwire isn’t in the black yet, having bled about $126 million in the second quarter of 2010 — but should the need arise for additional investment before it can turn a profit, the company shouldn’t plan to knock on Comcast’s door. Though it doesn’t have as much visibility in the 4G marketplace as Clear and Sprint do, Comcast does actually offer WiMAX service using Clearwire’s network and owns about 9 percent of it, but the cable provider’s CFO says that the prospects for upping that share aren’t good and that its up to Clearwire to “figure this out” — “this” being its financial pickle. Not exactly a vote of confidence, is it? Obviously, adding (or converting to) LTE is a possible game plan for Clearwire that’s going to require some serious cash to pull off, so staying tight with Sprint seems like a stellar idea right about now.

Comcast says additional Clearwire investment is unlikely originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  FierceBroadbandWireless  | Email this | Comments