Apr 9 2012 - 4:39pm
This week’s Translation steps further into the parts of the Comcast “RDK” (reference development kit), the software effort aimed at shaving a
Apr 2 2012 - 3:22pm
Nothing like a TED quote to launch a deeper dive into recent news around energy-efficient set-top boxes.
It’s from Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials
Mar 26 2012 - 12:07pm
On the scale of winces, the query that redlines to instant grimace for cable engineers is this: Why does it take so long to get new TV services to market?
Lots of
Mar 19 2012 - 2:36pm
Over the past few weeks, since the dramatic resizing of Canoe Ventures, one question keeps coming up, over and over (and over).
It is this: In a world with a much
Mar 12 2012 - 4:30pm
And now this, from the Department of Every Little Bit Counts: The United States currently produces about 81% of its own energy, up from 70% in 2005, according to a
Mar 5 2012 - 2:35pm
DOCSIS, the cable-modem specification, is a teenager this month (turning 13 on March 20), which made us wonder about the road map for the industry’s most
Feb 27 2012 - 2:00pm
This being the week of leap year, it seems timely to check in on DASH, the standards subset of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) focused on making a one-size-
Feb 21 2012 - 6:07pm
Gobs of data last week about broadband usage and trends: AT&T’s blog about network strain; Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index; fresh data from
Feb 13 2012 - 5:22pm
For those of us who watch the Super Bowl for the advertisements, one force outweighed everything else in last week’s folly. Not the doggies (says a dog person
Feb 6 2012 - 2:52pm
Last Monday, a new gadget arrived here in the over-the-top video lab: Comcast’s “AnyPlay” streamer, which makes it possible for triple-play
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