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Covering cable TV, broadband and Internet video technologies.

I have no doubt that Google Fiber is amazing -- tons of people would jump at the chance to get a dedicated symmetrical 1 Gbps Internet hookup for $70 per month. But
What, you were going to read a book during SuperMegaUltraStorm 2012? If you had power, you were glued to a TV (or computer or mobile device). As Sandy started ripping
Lots of us scream at the TV (see: the recent presidential debates, major sporting events). Soon we’ll have to be more polite -- because now the televisions will
Akamai Technologies is paying between $30 million and $40 million in cash for cable-backed CDN software vendor Verivue, according to an industry source familiar with
How fast will your Internet need to be in three years? AT&T is crossing its fingers that mainstream broadband users will not need speeds in the neighborhood of
Trying to make the case to Wall Street that it has to spend money to make money, AT&T announced plans to invest an additional $14 billion in infrastructure
Amazon.com is testing a price plan for its Internet streaming video service that's 22% more overall -- to be more competitive with Netflix. Here’s the deal
With Hurricane Sandy about to tear into the East Coast on Monday, Oct. 29, schools were suspended and people stayed away from the office. And with nothing else to do,
Legally embattled Internet TV startup Aereo is seeking to patent a way to stream local TV broadcasts over the Internet to users who aren’t in their “home
Netflix spends more on content as a percentage of subscriber revenue (62%) than cable networks, including: Discovery Communications (25%), AMC (34%), Showtime (35%),