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| 07.15.2008 |
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Tru2way and the Triumph of Industrial Design
On a conceptual level at least, cable’s competitive edge against wireline and wireless rivals got sharper with this year’s tru2way announcement. The tru2way agreement on interactive television and set-top box technologies among the six large MSOs...
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| 07.07.2008 |
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Alltel Speeds Up in Texas
Alltel Wireless will continue expanding its wireless broadband network in 2008 with the launch of EVDO (evolution data optimized) Revision A technology in Midland and Odessa, TX, enabling customers to upload files five to 10 times faster...
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| 06.19.2008 |
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Verizon Gooses Internet Speed Race
News Briefing for Thursday, June 19, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom welcomes back tipster Brain Clark, who has just completed a 12-step program for e-mail and texting addicts. Happy Thursday. The Internet speed race just got a little more brutal. Verizon will...
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| 06.06.2008 |
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Time Warner, NBCU Duel for Weather
News Briefing for Friday, June 6, 2008 Estranged Cable360 tipster Brain Clark told media outlets that “the decision to reunite with him was Cable360’s alone to make.” Happy Friday. Time Warner is taking care to bid cautiously for The Weather...
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| 05.22.2008 |
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Missing—NCTA Sessions About Competition
NEW ORLEANS—Competition was mentioned at the NCTA show both in the sessions and on the exhibit floor. However, there were no sessions specifically focused on cable operators’ experiences confronting the industry’s competitors. This was a...
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| 05.19.2008 |
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Microsoft Still Loves Yahoo
News Briefing for Monday, May 19, 2008 It's only day two of The Cable Show. Doesn't it feel like day 102? Greetings. That didn’t take long. Microsoft has begun making noises that its interest in Yahoo has returned, The Wall St Journal reports, citing...
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| 05.09.2008 |
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Microsoft Charts Next Move
News Briefing for Friday, May 9, 2008 Consecutive late nights have the Cable360 newsroom patently ignoring the company’s no slouching rule. Good day. Based on recent movements with potential proxy board members, Microsoft isn’t about to make a...
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| 05.08.2008 |
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Rising Profits for News Corp
News Briefing for Thursday, May 8, 2008 Media companies continue to post impressive quarterly earnings numbers. The latest is News Corp., which reported increased profits for its fiscal third quarter. Operating profit at News Corp.’s TV division was up...
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| 05.07.2008 |
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Sprint, Clearwire, Cable Ops Embark on High-Speed Wireless Venture
News Briefing for Wednesday, May 7, 2008 A consortium including Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Clearwire announced a plan to build a national wireless network that will deliver video and...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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Yahoo Shares Fall, But Will Rupert Give Them a Bounce?
News Briefing for Monday, May 5, 2008 Bloomberg reports that Yahoo shares declined 21% in early trading today. Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang reportedly was in a celebratory mood after Microsoft refused to meet his target stock price of $37 and then...
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| 04.28.2008 |
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Wireless Mobilizes Verizon's Quarter
News Briefing for Monday, April 28, 2008 Please sign Cable360's online petition to promote the addition of the first Matt Helm movie, The Silencers, to the National Film Registry. Good day. Verizon said text messaging and wireless Web browsing helped drive a...
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| 04.17.2008 |
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Broadcast Vet to Coach Comcast’s Sports Nets
News Briefing for Thursday, April 17, 2008 Cable360 newsroom staffers have been asked politely to not rail against other people or governments. Good day. Comcast hired veteran broadcast television producer Mike Weisman to work as a consultant to its...
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| 04.07.2008 |
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Apple Shares Rise on Next-Gen iPhone Expectations
News briefing for Monday, April 7, 2008 The next generation of Apple’s iPhone is expected to arrive in about two months, and with it will come another wave of media echoings, just like this one. Last year’s favorite gadget could become this...
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| 04.05.2008 |
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Weekend Update: Deal or No Deal
NEWS UPDATE FOR WEEKEND OF APRIL 5-6, 2008 Must Read Deal or no deal? That’s what Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told Yahoo’s board Saturday, promising that if Yahoo didn’t act within 21 days on Microsoft’s acquisition offer the...
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| 04.02.2008 |
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Cox Gets Serious About HD VOD
News briefing for Wednesday, April 2, 2008 Things got ugly in the Cable360 newsroom last night when one staffer switched from the Mets game to Ovation TV, which was showing the Maysles brothers' iconoclastic Meet Marlon Brando. Good day. Cox has taken steps...
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| 03.26.2008 |
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Comcast, Time Warner's Latest Wireless Venture
News briefing for Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Cable360 newsroom staffers have barricaded the doors and windows to fend off swarming, laid-off print journalists. Good day. Today's Must Read Comcast and Time Warner Cable are working on a new wireless partnership...
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| 03.25.2008 |
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Google Sees Future in White Spaces
News briefing for Tuesday, March 25, 2008 The Cable360 newsroom has stocked up on peanut butter, Jiffy Pop and V8 for the coming economic difficulties. Good morning. Google wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission outlining ways in which unused...
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| 03.24.2008 |
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FiOS Heads Uptown
NEWS BRIEFING FOR MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2008 The Cable 360 staff is reveling in how wonderful a time we live in—the White House Easter Egg hunt was streamed live today. Good day. TODAY'S MUST READ Verizon FiOS said today that it will be connecting the...
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| 03.17.2008 |
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HBO's Strauss Waltzes
NEWS BRIEFING FOR ST PATRICK'S DAY, MARCH 17, 2008 Bear Stearns crowds out Spitzer. Who’d have thunk it? Happy St Patrick’s Day. Guess all those reports about HBO being in a post-The Sopranos programming funk were correct. HBO Entertainment...
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| 03.13.2008 |
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DirecTV On Demand
NEWS BRIEFING FOR THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008 Are members of the Cable 360 newsroom the only ones worried about flying to The Cable Show on Southwest Airlines? Good day. DirecTV is about to address its vulnerability on VOD, The Wall Street Journal says. The DBS...
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