"Google is currently courting select app developers to create apps and games for Android TV"

"Earlier reports suggested Google would build Android TV itself, which would put it in direct competition with its hardware partners."

Seems like maybe they're just letting people know there's something in the pipe, so maybe some folks will hold off on buying a Fire TV, but there's not much about what the thing might look like or do.

Multiple choice questions always miss the most important option: none of the above

My new fav: The Drift Wars

(go figure)

Just read, Dealing with Dummies for Dummies...

Maybe the thing doesn't ring very loudly?

The cryptocurrency for smaller purchases?

Amazon has a low-cost version of S3 called Glacier, the downside of which is slow data retrieval time.

Also, on the extremely unlikely chance you're using Apple, there's a solid tool called Arc which will front-end for Glacier, and add encryption and automation to boot.

It strikes me as ironic that the company who has marginalized domain names is trying to hoard a bunch of TLDs.

(I mean, do you ever type in 'thingiwant.com,' or do you just toss 'thing I want' in the Google bar?)

There are always two sides to every argument, but this one is particularly damning:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

(Kurt Eichenwald traces the “astonishingly foolish management decisions” at the company that “could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success.”)

Not the first time they've made such blunders:
http://slashdot.org/story/03/11/06/1540257/microsoft-forgets-to-renew-hotmailcouk

If only Redmond had some sort of calendar system to help them remember this stuff.

Pot meet Kettle. Kettle, this is Pot:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/microsoft-attacking-gmail-tactics-it-uses-itself-212455

'Munich' is how Microsoft (internally) describes the German branch of their company (since it's based in Munich). So, translating the corporate speak, it reads: '[Microsoft in] Munich would have saved €43.7 million if [the city of Munich] hadn't used a bunch of free stuff."

You'll just be adding another system to maintain. Just buy a network attached drive, much simpler to maintain and smaller to book.

I know that Western Digital (my book) has software to share with iOS devices at least. Maybe Android, too.