Media giants and startups -- not to mention pirates -- are chasing an online-video audience of 158 million. Here's how key players connect to, and compete with, Hulu.READ»
Smart meters are a nearly complete solution for home energy management, offering detailed information on power use and potential savings. But until everyone has a smart meter--a goal that will take many years to ...READ»
Apple rumors swirl practically every week, but there's rarely one that's as potentially game-changing as this one: According to insiders, the company's aiming to cut out the cable TV middle man, and serve up network TV to as many as ...READ»
Will the cast of 30 Rock soon be making fun of a new corporate overlord? M&A bankers for General Electric may have reached a deal Tuesday to sell NBC-Universal to Comcast, reports TheWrap. Both companies have denied any ...READ»
Internet providers like Comcast and Time Warner are beginning to offer mobile 3G service as a bundle with home Internet, reports the New York Times. The goal: undercut wireless providers like Verizon and AT&T, who sell such ...READ»
Comcast is betting it does. The cable giant's online TV portal, Fancast, believes that Hulu's ads alienate and confuse women, and they're planning to use their massive new ad push to tap that demographic for themselves. But is the ...READ»
Cablevision plans to begin showing "interactive" advertisements to its cable customers next month, according to the Wall Street Journal, and other cable companies are following suit. The push is to make TV a "lean-forward" medium, ...READ»
According to a new survey, Hulu, the online video TV channel, just beat the viewing statistics of Time Warner Cable for July. Does that mean Hulu's now the second most important TV "channel" in the U.S.? Nearly...READ»
Proposed changes to the way the nation's media watchdog does its business will mean more transparency for citizens--and bad news for secretive consumer-electronics companies.READ»
This week, Comcast announced it would begin the first official commercial rollout of 4G wireless broadband in the U.S. in Portland, Oregon, after using Baltimore and Atlanta as test markets. The company plans to bundle the WiMAX ...READ»
While you slept, innovation didn't. Here's what you missed and need to know.
Notoriously union-averse Starbucks, Costco, and Whole Foods filed their card to reform labor law by creating a third place on the Employee Free ...READ»
Comcast, Time Warner, Viacom and other big players are in talks to transform how some TV shows are "broadcast" to the public. The rumor is that subscribers may soon be able to get favorite series online.
Programming ...READ»
I have to comment quickly on an article the Wall Street Journal ran last week titled "Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web." The article points to a shift in the views of politicians and corporations (including both Google and ...READ»
A Virginia scientist has plead guilty to selling rocketry technology secrets to the Communist regime in China, while Domino's has begun selling its Internet-ordered pizzas over TiVo set-top boxes.READ»
It's been an accepted practice for many years, but the time has come for broadcast companies and their advertisers to change the "tricks" they play on us TV viewers.
Because they are losing eyeballs and therefore ...READ»
Cabling together the Social Web -- that's Plaxtastic
Whenever
technology advances to the point of usefulness, it's usually because
someone found a great fit between two or more previously independent
offerings. In ...READ»
It's been my experience that government and quasi-government agencies are always the last ones to figure out the technology that helps them accomplish their mission. For the most part, my impression has not changed, though more and ...READ»
. . . with possible improvement if COMmunication improves
Jay Deragon's post Can Comcast Reverse the Storm suggests that Comcast has the opportunity to be a leading brand that leverages the tools of the web for improvement ...READ»
