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...
Spotlight On: Microsoft’s Michael O’Hara
As part of its push into the business services market, Comcast this week announced plans to offer Microsoft Communication Services to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). This Internet-hosted offering enables SMBs to share documents, access calendars, track tasks and use email, and it is based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Michael O’Hara, general manager for the Communications Sector at Microsoft, spoke to Editor-in-Chief Carol Wilson about the partnership...
China Telecom taps IBM 'Innovation Factory'
IBM’s “Innovation Factory” -- a Web 2.0-style product to help service providers brainstorm Web. 2.0-style services -- has landed a strong endorsement from China Telecom...
Introducing the world to WooMe
San-Francisco startup WooMe publicly launched its U.S. and U.K.-based online introduction service yesterday, with the tagline, “WooMe is introducing the world, one person at a time"...
Verizon plums enterprise sales channels
Verizon Business is taking a new sales tact for enterprise customers, announcing in a Web conference yesterday that it is creating a new agent partnership program that targets its largest customers ...
Level 3 advances video strategy
Level 3 Communications unveiled three new parts of its video initiative today, including a partnership with Move Networks to deliver high-definition (HD) video streaming over the Internet...
Global Crossing to resell Nextlink
Global Crossing is now reselling broadband wireless links from Nextlink for last-mile access to business customers under a national reseller agreement announced today by the two companies...
Google, MySpace launch social standards, targeting Facebook
The social networking wars got a lot more interesting this week, as Google and a slew of partners -- including still-market-leading MySpace.com -- debuted new APIs to enable the creation of Web-based social applications...
CenturyTel brings Broadband TV to 25 states
CenturyTel launched a Broadband TV product last week that is immediately available to anyone with the company’s broadband service...
VON: Pulver tells telcos: Be a ‘blade of grass’
BOSTON--The future of communications -- a combination of real-time and asynchronous connections driven by social networks -- may occur completely off the public switched telephone network, said Jeff Pulver, chairman of Pulvermedia, at the opening keynote address at this week’s VON show in Boston...
Gaming emerges as middleware differentiator
Gaming is fast becoming a differentiator in the competitive middleware market, a trend illustrated by Game Now, an on-demand gaming service offered by middleware vendor SeaChange International...
TelcoTV: IP Prime adds three rural telcos
ATLANTA--In the latest in its series of coming-out parties, IP-Prime announced three new telco customers for its IPTV service here at the TelcoTV show today...
TelcoTV: Telcos need to innovate in packaging
ATLANTA--Telephone companies getting into the video business need to capitalize on the fact that they don’t have a history in the industry and develop packaging and pricing of video services that is different from cable, the head of Starz advised today...
TelcoTV: Calix, Microsoft team on IPTV
ATLANTA--Calix announced this morning that it has established a licensing relationship with Microsoft that will enable its technology to interoperate with the Microsoft platform...
TelcoTV: Motorola says goodbye to traditional TV scheduling
Forty-two percent of video-on-demand viewers believe that in 10 years time, traditional TV scheduling will no longer exist, said Andy Li, director of engineering for Motorola’s On Demand Solutions, today at TelcoTV. This, in short, is Motorola’s vision...
Verizon’s FiOS gets 20-20 vision
Verizon Communications today launched a symmetric 20 Mb/s service over its FiOS network, setting a new industry standard for speed and addressing the growing need for upstream bandwidth to accommodate user-generated content...
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