Roy Choi is a Southern California native. He has been infatuated with technology reviews ever since he bought his first crummy laptop in the summer of 2000. He's been a writer for 8 years with The Walt Disney Company prior to joining TechnoBuffalo. When he's not writing he enjoys spending time with this wife doing nerdy things. Follow him @TheRealRoyChoi
Our very own Senior Mobile Editor, Todd Haselton, wrote earlier about where Apple is headed. And I agree with most of his points. However, Apple is facing a few large hurdles: international growth, maturing markets and it is largely a victim of its own successes. Apple needs to focus on quickly expanding growth in China, be prepared to play the underdog role and create innovative new...
Netflix appears to be facing investigations from the SEC for Facebook posts regarding the amount of content subscribers were consuming in a given month ("nearly a billion hours"). The SEC felt that Netflix CEO acted unlawfully by providing this information and thus has given notice to Netflix. Netflix disclosed in its recent 8-K filing to the SEC that the company and Hastings each...
So it is that time of the year and as corny as it sounds I enjoy giving gifts than I do receiving them, but if you were to force me to receive any gifts, I suppose I would want things that are useful, functional and sorta techie. Money is No Object Tesla Model X $60,000-$100,000 OK, so the Tesla Model X isn't even out yet and according to Tesla, the Model X begins delivery sometime...
Thursday, new data regarding PC sales are down from the same period last year, 25 percent to be exact, Macs are forecasted to be down 7 percent. Even with Windows 8 hitting the shelves and being heavily pushed through marketing and offering free copies to PC-buyers for the a good part of the year, sales are down. Windows 8 in itself is an admission of the death of the PC, with the...
Tuesday, Best Buy announced its third quarter earnings report and while noting $10.75 billion in revenue, those numbers are down $500 million from the same period last year. Best Buy has been facing this downward trend for the past three years, and while Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly has a 5-point plan, called “Renew Blue,” to turn the company around, only time will tell before we can see if...
We love our pets here at TechnoBuffalo, so much so that we bring them to the office. You may have seen Lucy and Eva in various videos and pictures on TechnoBuffalo. They demanded they get in on the Holiday Gift Guide, it sounded a lot like “Bark, Bark, Woof, Woof, Grrr.” Eva actually sat down and tried to type this list out, but we ended up helping her out. Money is No Object...
Utility outages can be a pain and we’re bound to see them over time, especially when severe weather conditions are involved, like this weeks devastating results of Superstorm Sandy. Even worse, what happens when the problem is more than a down telephone line or cell tower, say when an entire central office is rendered useless. That’s where the AT&T Network Disaster Recovery (NDR)...
Much has been said about Apple’s Senior Vice President of iOS, Scott Forstall’s ousting from Apple, but very little about Apple Retail Senior Vice President’s John Browett firing after a brief 9-month tenture. Personally, I thought Apple lost a great retail executive when Ron Johnson left to be CEO of J.C. Penney. Johnson played a significant role in making Apple Stores hugely popular...
If Google and Asus announce a new Nexus 7 this month, it will ultimately mean a gigantic mess for Apple. Why you ask? It puts certain Apple products way overpriced compared to what you can walk away with a Nexus 7 for. First off, the Nexus 7 is a very nice device and it does what you'd want by functioning as a daily tablet; it's fast enough to play mobile games, watch videos, surf...
I’ve driven the 2013 Chevy Volt for almost two months now, and by all accounts I love this car. When gas prices exceeded $5 in California, I was glad to have a car that essentially can be run on pure electric power. I hope to write a comprehensive review for you about the car soon, but until then I can tell you about how my driving has changed. Beyond the technical engineering...
DIRECTV announced a new DVR Thursday that claims to be the "Industry's most advanced HD DVR." While we haven't yet tested out the new DVR yet DIRECTV, I will say the specs are pretty impressive. As I have complained about my poor cable TV experiences I'm always a bit jealous of a DVR capable of recording more than two shows a time. DIRECTV Genie's 1 TB DVR records up to 5 HD shows at...
I am a fan of AT&T U-verse. I appreciate the hi-speed Internet and TV service even more now that I don't have it. I always enjoyed its user-interface, ability to record multiple shows on the DVR and relatively competitive pricing. As a tech fan I always appreciated U-verse's mobile apps. Obviously with new technologies there is always room for improvement. But AT&T has done...
RadioShack announced today that CEO Jim Gooch will step down from both his position as CEO and as a member of the board of directors. The current chief financial officer Dorvin Lively will take over the chief executive officer position in the interim. RadioShack has been struggling in recent years and its stock has taken a mighty tumble. It was trading at around $22 two years ago, but...
The Apple servers must be earning their keep today, with iOS 6 launching, an updated to OS X (10.8.2) has been released as well. The update includes Facebook integration, Game Center, iMessages/Facetime, multi-language dictation and much more. Facebook Single sign on for Facebook Adds Facebook as an option when sharing links and photos See Facebook friends’ contact information and...
I will admit it, I have been a huge fan of Apple products. I’ve admired the sleek designs ever since I bought my first Mac, a G4 Titanium PowerBook, in the Spring of 2003, I bought the 1.5 Generation iPod two days later. FANBOY! I fell in love with both devices. But those feelings were probably related to my frustrations with existing PC options and a Sony Discman I used to listen to...
AT&T released a press release not long after the Apple iPhone 5 and iPod announcements stating iPhone 5’s availability starting Sept. 21. In this press release, AT&T states customers can choose new data plans or to keep existing data plans. Including the AT&T unlimited data plans from back when the iPhone phones were sold with unlimited data options. Granted, how much...
Wednesday, after Apple announced the iPhone 5 and new iPods, the company's stock climbed 1.38 percent for the day to close at $669.72 and is currently trading above $670 in after hours trading. For the past twelve months the stock is trading at over 230 percent over a exactly year ago, September of last year at $289.78. On a day where the Dow Jones was nearly flat and the S&P 500...
When Google took the stage, alongside Asus, in June to announce the Google Nexus 7, we fell in love with the $200 tablet. It was everything we wanted to see from a tablet, let alone an Android tablet. It was $199 dollars (less than half the price of an iPad). Its 7-inch display was perfect for e-reading, and sufficient enough for movies and casual YouTube viewing, it’s form factor was...
Apple announced Monday, that Craig Federihi and Dan Riccio have been promoted to Apple’s senior executive team, both receiving new senior vice president titles. Federihi will head Mac Software Engineering while Riccio will lead Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod engineering teams, filling in for Bob Mansfield.
Things have changed quite a bit from when I had to prepare for back to school. The closest thing I had to a tablet was my Trapper Keeper, and the closest thing to apps were the inside flaps of Pee Chee folders titled “Useful Information.” So yes, things have changed. Today we have mobile devices with information and tools available with a few clicks and searches. Kids these days have...