Intel's Billion-Dollar Mistake
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January 31, 2011 : Costly flaw found in support chip for Sandy Bridge, a new processor that will deliver protected HD streams to tablets and other devices
Amazon May Target Netflix With Streaming Tilt
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January 31, 2011 : Elsewhere: Comcast's staying in Philly, Charter bumps broadband speeds, bidding for Germany's Kabel BW heats up and Boingo's IPO may bounce
PrimeSense Makes a Cable Kinect-tion
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January 31, 2011 : The company behind the Kinect device for the Xbox 360 says at least one US MSO will deploy its gesture-based technology this year
Huawei Annual Revenues Hit $28B
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January 31, 2011 : Chinese vendor puts its unaudited 2010 revenues at $28 billion, not far behind market-leader Ericsson
Comcast, NBCU Seal the Deal
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January 30, 2011 : Former Comcast COO Steve Burke takes the helm of NBCU after Comcast sews up its $30B deal to take control of the media giant
Bracing for the Comcast-NBCU Clincher
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January 28, 2011 : Reactions are pouring in ahead of the Comcast-NBCU closing, including takes on the new logo, the expected culture shock and the cable perks
Will Concurrent Wield Its New nDVR Weapon?
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January 28, 2011 : Vendor scores a key nDVR patent tied to the rapid ingest of video. But what's next? Licenses or lawsuits?
Netflix Shames ISPs
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January 27, 2011 : Netflix rankings of US and Canadian ISPs raises the question: Does your ISP suck?
TW Cable Has 15,000 WiMax Subs
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January 27, 2011 : MSO to continue investing in wireless while acknowledging the early results 'are not very impressive and pretty inconclusive'
CES 2011: New Product Recap
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January 21, 2011 : Here's a handy guide to some of the more significant product announcements from the 2011 International CES
Tru2way: Epic Fail at Retail
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January 04, 2011 : Tru2way seemed a cable industry & consumer electronics retail force at its International CES debut in 2008. Here's how it flopped
Comcast Hires Regional VP
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January 31, 2011 : Comcast names Rich Jennings regional vice president of the Mile High Region
Calix Lands in Virginia
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January 31, 2011 : Virginia-based cooperative to enable gigabit Ethernet speeds to over 18,000 premises
Intel Reveals Chip Slip
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January 31, 2011 : Intel identifies chipset design error, implementing solution
NTT Plans $430M Subsea Cable
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January 31, 2011 : NTT Communications plans to launch the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a 40-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) undersea cable
Cincy Bell Director Departs
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January 31, 2011 : Mark Lazarus has resigned from Cincinnati Bell's board of directors due to his new role with NBC Universal
Charter Bumps Cable Modem Speeds
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January 31, 2011 : Charter Communications increased Internet speeds for the company's residential and commercial customers
BroadLight Hires Marketing VP
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January 31, 2011 : Chee Kwan has joined BroadLight's executive team on January 1st, 2011, as Vice President, Worldwide Marketing.
The FCC Strikes Back
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner -
January 28, 2011 : 3:45 PM Did Verizon and MetroPCS jump the gun? Does it really matter?
CableCARD's Mid-Course Correction
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January 28, 2011 : 11:35 AM FCC tweaks new rules so IP interfaces on hi-def DTAs can't be used for MSO-supplied VoD and DVR services – or did they?
Tweet Danger
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January 27, 2011 : 4:50 PM Verizon uses social media like Twitter to remind FiOS customers how to cope during power outages – a good idea but more is needed
NCTA to FCC: Call Off 'AllVid'
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January 26, 2011 : 3:05 PM NCTA chief says more mandates aren't necessary amid rise of broadband-connected TVs, set-tops, tablets and other 'smart' video devices
Economically Unlock HFC Network Bandwidth
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January 25, 2011 : Gil Katz of Harmonic talks about how to free up bandwidth for new revenue-generating services with the companys SUPRALink Universal Transmitter and explains IP Cable and what the company brings to the market
Podcast: Cablevision's Network DVR
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January 25, 2011 : 1:05 PM It saves some DVR hardware costs, but is it efficient enough to work in a major market?
thePlatform Gets Flashier
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January 25, 2011 : 11:25 AM Aliance with Adobe will factor into the online video strategy of the cross-MSO In Demand JV
Disruptive Telcos?
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January 25, 2011 : 5:55 AM Telecom Italia says it's time for carriers to shake up service models
Bond. Channel Bond
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January 21, 2011 : 11:25 AM Get and Cisco raise the Docsis 3.0 bar by kicking the tires on a 32-channel bonded downstream
Making Google Less Creepy
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January 21, 2011 : 5:30 AM If this is why they changed CEOs, they might want to think again
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