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Covering cable TV, broadband and Internet video technologies.

Longtime cable guy Buddy Snow has made the jump from Motorola Mobility to the startup world. Snow earlier this year -- prior to Google's official takeover of
San Jose, Calif. -- Marthin De Beer is the top video-technology exec at Cisco Systems, one of the world's largest suppliers of set-top boxes. And he realizes the
Broadband Internet providers are slowly but surely phasing out the all-you-can-eat buffet. But they’re using usage-based billing mechanisms for two distinct
Turner Broadcasting System is trying to build a better startup — with an initiative that’s more like a buddy system than a traditional strategic investment
As Hurricane Isaac pummeled cable operators like Cox and telcos along the Gulf Coast this week, Verizon was dealing with a separate, unnatural disaster in the
Are Facebook, Twitter and their ilk changing the nature of TV viewing — or are they just replicating what generations of boob-tubers have done for years? A new
What possible earthly reason would Time Warner Cable or any other operator have for teaming up with Apple — the company that cornered the market on digital music
Apple, after shunning cable operators for years and trying to cobble together its own subscription TV service, is now rumored to be wooing MSOs with some kind of
In the broadcasters’ suit against Aereo, in which the startup won the first round, there was only one point of fact in dispute: whether its dime-size antennas
After Google is done hacking Motorola Mobility’s headcount by 20%, what’s next for the latter’s Home division? (See Google To Slash 4,000 Motorola