Coming into this review I had a hard time believing that a Bluetooth speaker could possibly be worth $299.99. But who amongst us could have predicted the meteoric rise of the $199.99 Jambox responsible for literally dozens of imitators. Nevertheless, at this price Jawbone has positioned its Big Jambox against the well regarded Sonos Play:3 which offers better overall sound.

Apple’s AppleSeed program allows a select group of customers to test out Apple software before it’s even released to Apple’s registered developers. These select customers received an email from Apple on Wednesday, informing them that the company is preparing for ‘hardware specific software updates’.

9to5Mac reports that the email reads: “We are preparing for possible hardware specific software updates on OS X Mountain Lion. These contain hardware-specific bug fixes or even special features! In order to make sure you can participate in these exclusive seeds, we need your most up-to-date machine configuration information. The easiest and most efficient way to do this is with Feedback Assistant.”

Easy to install wifi for well, everything. If this takes off, things (no, literally, things, physical-object-things are going to get interesting. The only thing I object to is the same thing I do with all cloud services - that the devices talk to the company's servers, rather than a system in the home, thereby making the company a single point-of-failure for its own technology. You would not buy a wristwatch that stopped working if Casio went bust, why sould any other technology be different.

option for universal remote via iphone