Since I’ve been offline, a lot has happened in the tech world! Here’s a sampling.

The Nikon D90 is the first digital SLR with HD movie recording (link) and many compact digital cameras already contain the feature, confirming my prediction that the feature would be the “next big thing” among digital cameras. Now if only they’d add a line-in so I could use an external microphone, I’d be in camera heaven!

More publications are picking up on the fact that the iPhone is probably the next major gaming platform. Now if Apple would just get it’s act together and help instead of hinder developers, we could soon see it surpass a major portable gaming platform. To be honest, I could be just hyping up the iPhone as a gaming platform because I want to use it to play Advance Wars…

On a more ominous note, Comcast is the latest major ISP to begin capping data plans (link). As my friend Matt Buchanan explains here, this will basically kill a number of enterprising new internet-based services. If the rest of US ISP’s follow the trend, you’ll soon have to choose between HD movie rentals, Steam or Xbox Live gaming, and Bittorrent usage (oh, and still remember to leave some bandwidth left over to check your mail too!). Meanwhile, countries who have a more competitive field of ISP’s get options like 1.2gbps satellite internet and may have to “suffer” under a bandwidth cap of 30GB – per day. It is well past time to bring the United States’ internet options into the 21st century, or else this country will be left in the dust.

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 3:01 pm

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