Rob PegoraroAmong this weekend’s achievements: homebrewing a new batch of beer. I hope this coffee porter lives up to its recipe, but I won’t know for another three weeks and change.
This week’s bonus post for Patreon readers covered three ways, two of which can be stacked, to save money on Google storage.
12/6/2023: Twitch to Log Out of South Korea, Citing ‘Prohibitively Expensive’ Costs, PCMag
I am nobody’s idea of a Twitch regular, but seeing this Amazon-owned game streaming service say it will exit an entire country–apparently because of a “sender pays” policy along the lines of what telecom firms in the U.S. have requested–got my attention.
12/6/2023: T-Mobile: Here’s How We Got 5G to Top 4-Gig Download Speeds, PCMag
A speed test under special circumstances isn’t necessarily news, but one of the big three wireless carriers suggesting it could finally find a use for millimeter-wave spectrum it’s sat on for years does rank as news.
12/7/2023: CES 2024 Media Preview, Consumer Technology Association
After months of occasional banter with one of my CTA friends about how I’d like to share some of my hard-won experience with CES, we finally made that happen on this webinar for journalists signed up for the giant gadget gathering next month in Las Vegas. I enlisted my fellow CES veteran and New Jerseyan Andrea Smith, and she may have provided the most value by reminding PR types pitching companies exhibiting at CES that it would help so, so much if their e-mails could specify upfront where in the wide world of CES exhibit space their clients might be found.
12/8/2023: Comcast to Hike TV and Broadband Rates (Yes, Again), PCMag
I wrote a new version of a story I’ve already written for three clients over the past four years: in November of 2019 at Fierce Video, now Stream TV Insider; a year later for Forbes; and then in in December of 2022 at USA Today. I don’t know how I missed this at the end of 2021 and feel bad about that failure to monetize what seems to be an evergreen topic.
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