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06/17/2009
Partners Aim for Web Video on UK Set-Tops
An Internet search engine company that specializes in video searches, blinkx, has partnered with a British interactive service provider, Miniweb, to bring Internet video to set-top boxes. (For more on Internet video, click here.) San Francisco/London-based blinkx is "probably the biggest video search engine that you’ve never heard of," said Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of blinkx. […]
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06/16/2009
Denser QAM Chip Costs Less
BroadLogic, a San Jose, CA, maker of video-processing semiconductors, has announced an ultra-dense quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) chip for video, voice and data transport. The TeraQAM chip will be available in 16-channel and 32-channel versions, thus doubling and quadrupling QAM chip density from the standard eight-channel chip most commonly shipped today. The going rate for […]
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06/15/2009
TWC Exec Discusses Verizon, AT&T
Last week Time Warner Cable’s COO Landel Hobbs fielded a broad range of questions at Credit Suisse’s Global Media and Communications Convergence Conference in Dana Point, CA, ranging from competition to wireless to online video. Asked about competition from Verizon and AT&T, Hobbs said the two telcos overlap 22 percent of TWC’s footprint, with 15 […]
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06/11/2009
ARRA Stimulates Rural Communities and WiMAX
The wave of wireless companies vying for a piece of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA or the Stimulus Bill) is gaining momentum. WiMAX and broadband wireless providers, along with a supporting cast of wireless equipment and technology companies, are heeding the new administration’s call to bring wireless communications to previously underserved, and unserved, […]
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06/11/2009
Sales Executive of the Year Awards Issue
Hats Off! Welcome to our inaugural Sales Executive of the Year awards issue where we present the best of the best in our judges' eyes. Be sure to check www.cablefax.com for highlights from our June 11 event.
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06/10/2009
Verizon CTO Talks FiOS and LTE
Verizon Communications CTO Dick Lynch talked about the company’s broadband businesses yesterday at RBC Capital Markets’ Technology, Media and Communications Conference in San Francisco. "Verizon sees itself as one that has a singular focus on a superior broadband portfolio both from the landline and wireless side," said Lynch. Verizon’s fiber-based FiOS service competes with cable […]