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Here’s a seeming paradox: Cable operators – specifically, Comcast — are hyping their ability to deliver 100-Mbps Internet service as
Turns out, I’ve really grown accustomed to all those trick-play features. Having spent the last two weeks shuttling among New York, Las Vegas (for CES
LOS ANGELES — Panelists here at the SCTE’s Emerging Technologies conference Tuesday, discussing cable’s evolution to the "hyperconnected" network
What’s in a name? Cisco, as expected, is retiring the venerable Scientific Atlanta name, at least on the consumer-facing set-top boxes and DVRs, in favor of its
If anyone actually signed up for AT&T U-verse specifically to watch the Giants take on the undefeated Patriots Dec. 29, he or she should have felt cheated. AT
On the train into New York this morning, I heard a most familiar tune: the opening theme song to Nickelodeon’s The Backyardigans. In the New Jersey Transit
How do you attract attention at a ridiculously sprawling, hopelessly huge mess like the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show? Consider: The
In a sign BigBand Networks is getting its ducks in a row for a possible acquisition, the company’s board of directors has adopted the same change-of-
Comcast in the first nine months of 2007 paid TiVo $8 million to port the DVR maker’s software to Motorola HD set-top boxes, according to TiVo’s latest
Verizon has introduced a symmetrical broadband service that offers up to 20 megabits per second — that is, 20 Mbps both up and down. And you can get FiOS