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Denver — I had a chance to visit CableLabs yesterday while in the Mile High City this week. So what’s new?  The first thing we noticed on the way in
Comcast and TiVo have announced that the first non-Comcast employees have begun receiving the TiVo-based DVRs in New England. This moves the ball down the field after
Now that Joost has officially opened its doors to the teeming Internet millions, I took another look at the service that — according to its prelaunch hype
There’s some interesting data about Verizon’s FiOS TV growth stuck into Exhibit 3 of the lawsuit filed yesterday against Verizon Communications by small
Comcast subscribers in New England may finally be able to get a TiVo-based DVR sometime before Thanksgiving. Or, the way things have gone on this project, 
That cute little TiVo guy/gal/thing used to be your friend (”My TiVo Gets Me“). Now he/she/it wants to get more serious. TiVo has taken the
That’s the bummer about being publicly held. Whenever you hiccup – or in BigBand’s case, fall on your face and open up a bloody gash on
What a waste. In the span of about two months, cable operators have shipped more than 650,000 set-top boxes with CableCards plugged into the back.  The boxes,
Comcast’s high-speed Internet service has been in the news again. For the wrong reasons.  The Washington Post reported this month that the operator
Part of the good news for cable in the recent FCC dual must carry decision (or maybe that should be "it-coulda-been-worse news") was that operators won’t be