• Netflix Settles Class-Action Video Privacy Lawsuit For $9 Million

  By Todd Spangler, February 10, 2012
  Netflix paid $9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the video-subscription company of violating the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, it disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday.  More

• Updated: Synacor Rises 5% In IPO, After Shares Price At Low End

  By Todd Spangler, February 10, 2012
  Shares of Synacor, a provider of Web portal and "TV Everywhere" authentication services to cable and telecom operators, closed up 5% in its initial public offering Friday after the company priced the shares at the low end of already reduced range.  More

• A&E Spins FreeWheel For Mobile Ads On Apple Devices

  By Todd Spangler, February 10, 2012
  A&E Networks signed an agreement with FreeWheel, an Internet video ad-management provider, to deploy its Monetization Rights Management system across the programmer's mobile properties.  More

• Verizon: We Already Selected VOD When ActiveVideo Came Calling

  By Todd Spangler, February 10, 2012
  Verizon Communications filed its final brief Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in its appeal of patent-infringement rulings in favor of ActiveVideo Networks, asserting that it had already selected SeaChange International's VOD system when ActiveVideo approached it about an interactive TV gaming service in 2005.  More

• Broadcast-Only TV Homes With Broadband Soar: Nielsen

  By Todd Spangler, February 9, 2012
  The number of U.S. households with broadcast-only TV and broadband climbed 23% in the third quarter of 2011 -- although they're just 4.4% of all TV homes and the jump is not necessarily evidence of growing cord-cutting, according to Nielsen.  More

• Cisco's Service Provider Video Sales Rebound

  By Todd Spangler, February 9, 2012
  Cisco Systems' cable-focused service provider video unit bounced back in the quarter ended Jan. 28 with sales up 23% -- one year after the company reported a steep drop in set-top sales -- reaching $1 billion for the period.  More

• DirecTV Goes Wide With 'Classic' TiVo HD DVR

  By Todd Spangler, February 9, 2012
  DirecTV is once again offering a TiVo DVR to all its U.S. customers -- for the first time in seven years -- although the box uses TiVo's older, standard-definition user interface and lacks certain DirecTV features, including multiroom DVR.  More

• DOJ Set To Approve Google's Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility: Report

  Todd Spangler, February 9, 2012
  The U.S. Justice Department is expected to approve Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility as early as next week, although the agency will "closely monitor" how the Internet giant uses the patents it's acquiring, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources.  More

• Invidi Keeps Padding Addressable-Ad Patent Portfolio

  By Todd Spangler, February 8, 2012
  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Invidi Technologies, a provider of addressable-advertising solutions for pay-TV operators, its sixth patent, which covers a method of delivering addressable ads in a bandwidth-efficient way.  More

• LightSquared Complains It Was Left Out Of GPS Hearing

  John Eggerton, February 8, 2012
  LightSquared said that it was shut out of a House GPS hearing Wednesday that it called a "trial in absentia" of its proposed wholesale wireless broadband network.  More

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