The digital entertainment era is on, but cable, consumer electronics and other mediums risk being minor players if they don’t get compatible and connected with each other soon, Intel digital home group vp/gm Don McDonald warned at Digital Life’s keynote Fri. "If you treat [this] as incremental, you truly will be left behind. The technology must adopt to the way consumers live," he said. — T-Mobile is exploring a cable industry relationship, product marketing dir Michael Galielli said, but "nothing that we’re publicly talking about." – CableWORLD’s Simon Applebaum

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Pai to Leave FCC in 2021

FCC chmn Ajit Pai intends to depart the Commission on Jan 20. Pai joined the FCC in May 2012, having been appointed by then-President Barack Obama and unanimously approved by the Senate. His term was set to

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