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10/05/2011
Midcontinent Builds Connection to Former US Cable Franchises
Midcontinent Communications completed its acquisition of 113 Minnesota and Wisconsin franchises from US Cable. The area includes approximately 86,000 homes and approximately 33,000 customers. Ninety percent of the customers are served by a fiber network fed from a single cable headend, delivering cable TV, broadband and digital telephone services to residential and business customers. Construction […]
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10/05/2011
Xbox 360 Gets Foot In the Door At Cable Operations
Two cable providers – Comcast and Verizon FiOS – will integrate Microsoft’s Xbox 360 into their video services. In a posting on Comcast’s corporate blog today, Tony Werner, executive vice president/CTO at Comcast, wrote, "We’re excited to be working with Microsoft to bring our Xfinity On Demand service to the Xbox 360 and continue delivering […]
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10/05/2011
Raging Battle Continues Between ‘ABC Plan’ Friends, Foes
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank believes U.S. customers could pay approximately $14 less per year in communications access charges if the American Broadband Connectivity Plan’s (the ABC Plan’s) proposed reductions are fully implemented as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) reforms. The ABC Plan proposes, among other things, to cut switched access rates to […]
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10/04/2011
Samsung Uses Adobe's Flash Platform for Smart TV App
At Max 2011, Adobe’s technology developer conference, Samsung Electronics launched the first smart TV application using Adobe AIR. VH1’s Flash technology-based application,"I Love the 80s Trivia," will be made available on Samsung smart TVs in the United States this fall via the Samsung Apps marketplace. Adobe AIR is a key element of the Adobe Flash […]
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10/04/2011
Verizon Gets Into Farming
Trimble Agriculture has signed on to the nPhase ONE developer program to utilize the Verizon Wireless mobile broadband network for its Trimble Connected Farm deployment strategy. nPhase is a joint venture between Qualcomm and Verizon, providing advanced machine to machine (M2M) cloud platform services. The nPhase ONE M2M development platform enables Trimble to integrate advanced […]