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| 04.28.2008 |
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Study: Rapid Shift in Residential Phone
According to an updated forecast from SNL Kagan, the cable industry is positioned to continue market share growth in the residential phone business, but the gains could prove tenuous. The study, titled "Cable Looks for Phone Share Gains Amid...
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| 04.24.2008 |
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SureWest Picks ADB DVRs
Advanced Digital Broadcast has been selected to supply HD, AVC ADB-5810WX IPTV DVRs to independent...
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| 04.23.2008 |
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Vapps Updates Skype Extra
Vapps, a provider of audioconferencing services, today announced an update of its Skype Extra, a plug-in that launches the full feature set of its High-Definition Conferencing (HD-C) service from within the Skype Internet...
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| 04.21.2008 |
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Skype Expands Unlimited Calling
Skype has expanded unlimited calling subscriptions for consumers in the United States and Canada, with a single, monthly flat rate subscription for unlimited...
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| 04.02.2008 |
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IPTV Zone to Expand
The IPTV Zone at IBC2008 is being increased in size by 15.5 percent to more than 1,100 square meters. The...
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| 02.29.2008 |
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Report: IPTV Will Be Game-Changer
A recent Yankee Group report says IPTV will redefine pay TV in the United States. According to "From Gorillas to Guerrillas, IPTV Changes Everything," IPTV will forever transform how telcos operate, changing...
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| 02.28.2008 |
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Broadcast Dinosaurs, Digital Formats and Bad Audio
Here's a riddle for you. What's the difference between dinosaurs and broadcasters? Give up? Dinosaurs had the decency to go extinct while broadcasters keep hanging in there. The preceding was brought to you courtesy of pre-NAB coverage as the creaking old...
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| 01.31.2008 |
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Earnings (yawn) Call
Earnings calls are unavoidably boring, but fearsome forecasts managed to come from both Verizon and AT&T. The economy may tank, but people are going to continue to buy services from their phone companies - especially wireless services.
AT&T executive vice president/CFO Rick Linder even went so far as to infer that jobless people and inflation that's running wilder than Britney Spears' behavior was somehow a media contrivance.
Did we mention that the cable industry has no discernible wireless play?...
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| 01.03.2008 |
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IPTV Will Need a Little Help to Succeed
One of the IPTV's bigger attractions - its ability to deliver niche content from users and the Internet - could also be its undoing, according to an Israeli technology company executive who sees this as huge challenge for service providers who want to grow...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Business Services:
Video Gives MSOs an Edge
Telephony and data get the most attention, but video can be a powerfully simple and decisive weapon when facing the telco giants in the business services arena....
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Ethernet Technology:
It’s Testing Time
As Ethernet continues to shift into a carrier-class technology, maintaining quality of service (QoS) while maximizing throughput is increasingly critical to ensuring proper performance and a high quality customer experience....
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| 12.17.2007 |
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HDTV:
Channel Count Smackdown
The most over-played chorus of 2007 continues to resound in the competition for HD channel lineups: This ain't a scene, it's an arms race. Over the course of this year, the stakes were repeatedly raised as MSOs battled satellite providers for HD viewers...
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| 12.03.2007 |
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Competition from the Cellular Front
While technically the cellular industry doesn't compete with cable since cable has no cellular business, let's not get caught up in technicalities. The fact is that mobile is coming on strong in the broadband space and, if not a threat right now, will present...
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| 11.15.2007 |
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A Power-Full Network
The cable industry better fervently hope that they do things differently in Tennessee because what's going on in Clarksville, TN, could portend a bigger threat to the industry than the Hollywood writers' strike. The Clarksville Department of Electricity has...
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| 11.12.2007 |
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LodgeNet Gets 'Time-Shifting' Patent
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded LodgeNet Entertainment Corp. a patent (no. 7,272,844) covering technologies that enable...
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| 11.12.2007 |
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Flash Drive and TiVo Score at Conference
In the race to maintain market share, leaders in the TV industry are testing the technology, economic feasibility and consumer appeal of a number of new devices. The goal is to find that one gadget that might, just might, strike a chord with a wide enough...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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AT&T and Video: Perfect Together?
If bandwidth isn't a question and HD isn't a problem, what keeps AT&T execs awake at night? Try wireless, writes Jim Barthold...
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| 10.25.2007 |
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Here Comes that Pesky Competition Again
A local TV channel in the Philadelphia market runs an annoying self-promotion for its Action News that shows a news van arriving at the scenes of all kinds of activity. Invariably, someone, generally dressed as a rube-like Philadelphia tourist, says...
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| 09.17.2007 |
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DirecTV, Thomson Gunning at MDUs and Cable
DirecTV and its longtime consigliere, er, supplier, Thomson have jointly developed a platform that will help the satellite provider overcome the ever-pesky problem of delivering the full DirecTV experience to multi-dwelling units and master plan communities...
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| 06.28.2007 |
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NXTComm: Missing a Letter, an Audience - and Programmers
About the only thing missing from last week's NXTComm - besides a letter that makes it an actual word out of its name and a crowd that makes it a successful trade show - was programmers. You know the guys - HBO, Showtime, MTV, gaudy booths and Playboy...
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