Clinton Stark

Food & Wine

State of the Wine Industry Report: Premium wine sales continue to decline as Millennials gravitate to alternatives

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.16.2019

Baby Boomers are retiring, and faced with fixed incomes, are reducing expenses. Will and can Millennials make up the difference in wine spending?

News

Google backs new WordPress publishing platform Newspack

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.14.2019

Google, Knight, ConsenSys and others have joined together to back a new publishing platform called Newspack. Newspack is primarily targeting smaller and medium-sized publishers. Created…

Cameras & Filmmaking

Hopefully Canon listens to buyers, removes Touch Bar on upcoming EOS R cameras

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.09.2019

In my time with the Canon EOS R I found a lot to like. The relatively small camera packs a full-frame sensor into a mirrorless…

First Look Review: Rode Videomic Pro+ On-Camera Shotgun Condenser Microphone

Cameras & Filmmaking

Top 3: Must-have accessories for your new DSLR or mirrorless camera

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.03.2019

Here’s 3 camera accessories that will help round out your DSLR or mirrorless camera setup. A camera body is obviously the core of any camera…

Roku Adds Premium Subscriptions to The Roku Channel

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Roku adds Showtime, Starz premium channels to subscription lineup

BY CLINTON STARK — 01.02.2019

More channels means more convenience as streaming services bolster their content offerings.

Alexa app compared to Sonos for whole home audio

News

Replacing Sonos with Amazon Echo & Alexa – is it a good idea?

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.28.2018

As a long-time fan of Sonos products such as the Sonos One and Play:5 speakers I’ve been watching Amazon Echo products with interest. I wonder,…

How to (not) disable the Amazon Echo Alexa Try card

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Amazon Echo: The one thing that drives me (and others) absolutely bonkers

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.21.2018

Try “Alexa, …” For all the amazing capability voice assistants bring to our homes, there’s often a gotcha here or there, after all this is…

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Trendspotting: Amazon sold “tens of millions” of Echo devices, told 100 million jokes in 2018

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.19.2018

Amazon is re-inventing the smart home, and making a fortune in the process. Can Google, Apple, Samsung and others catch up?

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Apple Texture Magazine App: Publishers confront similar issue that challenged music, TV and movie business models

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.12.2018

The Texture app has been out for a while now. Often described as a Netflix for magazines, the nifty app for iOS and Android lets…

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Are iPhone model names confusing buyers?

BY CLINTON STARK — 12.04.2018

First, in 2017, there was the X (as in “ten”), the first iPhone not to use traditional digits in its name. Then, earlier this year,…