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XO shakes up pricing models
XO Communications continued its aggressive assault on the competitive services market today with a new pricing strategy that lets customers pay strictly for bandwidth and not for a specific number of access lines...
Triple-play prices grow more elastic
As competition heats up for triple-play telecom services, the prices for those offerings are becoming more elastic—something customers are finding when they threaten to switch providers...
New Edge brings CoS to ADSL
New Edge Networks is keeping its promise to bring a better quality ADSL service to small to mid-sized businesses, announcing today it will introduce class-of-service offerings that allow customers to tag and prioritize services over ADSL lines...
CES: XStreamHD takes the theater experience home
LAS VEGAS--Although high-definition DVD suffered from the news that Warner Brothers will only be providing content in BluRay format this year, the HD market in general was in fine shape at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas...
Google, Facebook unite for social network standards
Competitors Google and Facebook look for common ground to allow users to control identity and content online; whither telecom industry?...
Broadband business wireless firm expands to NYC
Its nickname is humble – BOB Broadband – but a new wireless service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless services to large businesses, particularly those in financial services, using licensed spectrum...
Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...
Online ads make their way into videos
ScanScout co-founder and president Waikit Lau shared with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy the keys to the company’s success moving forward as more and more videos go online...
AT&T: 40,000 U-verse installs per week by 2008’s end
In AT&T’s analyst day yesterday, John Stankey, the company’s group president of telecom operations, provided some up-to-date data on AT&T’s consumer offerings as well as some aggressive goals for next year, including the quadrupling of its weekly installation rate for U-verse triple-play services...
Survey calls for customer experience overhaul
When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...
Microsoft links Office to network ‘cloud’
Beset on all sides by online competitors to its still massively profitable Office suite, Microsoft today opened up a beta test of a new service that lets users of its desktop apps save and collaborate on documents online...
Telus to offer Jamcracker SaaS as wholesaler
Canadian service provider Telus is teaming up with Jamcracker to offer U.S. service providers the ability to deliver key business applications as a service to their small to mid-sized business (SMB) customers...
Blowtorch hopes to catch fire
Blowtorch Entertainment came on the scene this fall armed with more than $50 million in initial funding and a goal to create a media company for a young-adult audience...
Faster, cheaper broadband not enough
U.K. broadband customers are paying less and getting higher speeds, but they are still not happy, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.K. Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study...
MegaPath sings national ‘Duet’
Competitive service provider MegaPath is taking its converged voice and data offering, known as “Duet,” to its national footprint, the company announced this week...
Ethernet a cable bright spot
While most of the cable industry earnings seem headed for the doldrums at best, Ethernet sales to businesses could well represent the rare bright spot...
Nokia Ovi plans grow more ambitious
AMSTERDAM--Nokia plans to take the offensive with Ovi in 2008. At its annual Nokia World conference, the company unveiled not only a plan to include unlimited music downloads through Ovi with the purchase of a Nokia music phone but also a blueprint for its new Web services portal ...
All I want for Christmas is Xbox 360 Live
AT CES last year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees to expect the integration of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox Live with its Microsoft IPTV platform to come to the market by Christmas 2007. With December right around the corner, eager Xbox fans have yet to see the online social community move into their living rooms...
Verizon Business enhances e-bonding
In an effort to make the business of doing business easier, Verizon Business today announced expanded e-bonding capabilities and an enhanced customer portal for large business customers and government agencies...
Berners-Lee: Web to Go from WWW to GGG
Tim Berners-Lee, generally credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has jumped on the “social graph” bandwagon, proclaiming the concept of detailing and sharing data across a social network of friends as the next leap forward in computer networks...
NCTA, TiVo team on HD DVRs
Cable companies ramped up their presence in the home today with the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s announcement that it will introduce a new external adapter to enable TiVo digital video recorders to access switched digital cable channels without a set-top box...
EarthLink backs away from muni Wi-Fi
EarthLink’s municipal Wi-Fi business is in tatters, and the Internet service provider itself may pull the plug on the business before too long. On Friday EarthLink Chief Executive Officer Rolla Huff said the company is looking for strategic alternatives to its muni Wi-Fi business...
Bringing HD video to SMBs
LifeSize leads a down-market charge with low-cost videoconferencing...
HD showdown
With the holidays approaching, high-definition television sets will top many consumer wish lists, bringing the total of HDTV-owning households to more than 30 million...
Web ads find unwanted attention
The Web advertising business is all about attracting eyeballs. But this time thanks to new, uber-aggressive approaches to better targeting Web ads it may have attracted the wrong kind of attention...
