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Covering cable TV, broadband and Internet video technologies.

Verizon may soon be ushering in a new set-top supplier or two. There’s a hint of this tucked away in a document filed by the Alliance for
If you have to take pains to persuade people you’re cool, perhaps you’re not. You know, like if you have to explain a joke, it’s not really funny
Verizon, hoping to kick life into its flagging digital subscriber line business, is offering a "lifetime" price option guaranteeing customers who commit to a two-
One of the supposed killer advantages of IPTV over traditional cable — that an IP architecture provides an unlimited smorgasbord of  video choices,
It has no name and no firm launch date, but the buzz surrounding the NBC Universal and News Corp. online-video joint venture (a.k.a. "NewSite") has kept its
Say you just paid for a burger that tasted like a dirty sneaker. The bun was moldy. The tomato was a greenish-white. And there was a hair on it. Would you go back to
You know that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character — who has implanted a dead guy’s retinas to remain undetected by the
So ends the short-and-not-so-sweet life of Amp’d Mobile, an obnoxious startup dedicated to bringing laddish video content to mobile phones. Is this a cautionary
Comcast has compiled a bizarro-world version of Nielsen ratings: It’s a list of the consistently 80 least-watched channels on its cable systems. In other
TiVo’s survival depends on cable. Cable has limited incentives to see it succeed. Does TiVo have a way out? This week, the company that has amassed such