A Lamentation for TechTV

It’s a fact of high-tech life: things move fast. Don’t fall too much in love with anything, because it might not be here this time next year.

Like Sony’s innovative Clié palmtops, which Sony announced this week that it will no longer sell in the U.S.

Or like TechTV, a cable station dedicated to technology lovers. For years, I’ve regularly TiVo’ed several of its shows—especially “The Screen Savers,” “Call for Help” and “TechLive”—and then, by fast-forwarding, cherry-picked the best tips, tricks, news, trends, and Web links. I learned something new every time.

Last Friday, TechTV as we know it disappeared. It was swallowed up by Comcast, the cable-TV giant, who has merged TechTV with its own G4 channel (all video games, all the time).

Infor TechTV Live: Exploring Infor’s low code platform capabilities

Join our experts in this Infor TechTV live to learn more about Infor’s extensibility platform that enables rapid application development and lets you quickly build out applications, extensions, stand-alone, mobile, and portals, all in one simple framework.

The live stream is hosted simultaneously on YouTube and LinkedIn and is open to attendees to interact with the panel through live chat for Q&A.

The live stream is scheduled for Thursday, May 5th at 12:00-1:00PM ET.

Link to the live event on YouTube

Link to the live event on LinkedIn

MEDIA: TechTV seeks news that's big on personality - Cable network TechTV is the only 24-hour service geared to computer users. Aimee Grove discovers what makes it tick

MEDIA: TechTV seeks news that's big on personality - Cable network TechTV is the only 24-hour service geared to computer users. Aimee Grove discovers what makes it tick

If you're not already familiar with TechTV, you soon will be. The two-year-old cable network, recently bought by Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, was previously known as ZDTV. It is on the air in more than 20 million US households and over 60 million worldwide.

by AIMEE GROVE