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In the Much-Ado-About-Nothing Dept.: Verizon Communications last year filed a patent application, first reported by FierceCable, for a system that would let set-tops
Are Internet data-usage limits and overage fees a way for service providers to extract more dollars from their heaviest-consuming users -- or are they tools that will
Almost four weeks after Verizon Communications launched an iPad app that provides up to 75 live channels over home Wi-Fi, Microsoft on Tuesday released an upgraded
Any child’s death is a heart-wrenching tragedy.
Amid the years-long fascination about whether Apple will introduce an integrated HD television, there’s one critical question that gets short shrift: How much
TiVo has acquired video search engine Zinc.tv, which claims to have an index spanning more than 1.1 million “TV-quality videos” -- including 179,430 TV
The SEC thinks Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may have violated its fair-disclosure rules by bragging on Facebook -- but he disagrees.
"There's no one piece of content that is essential for us," Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said two years ago, discussing his attempts to negotiate a renewal
Those annoyingly addictive games from Zynga may soon be coming to pay TV subscribers, with operators being offered the chance to funnel users extra “in-game
In an era of thousands of content choices, the traditional TV grid guide (with up-down-left-right input) has been disparaged as a ridiculously insufficient tool -- and