News tagged with cable service

Three major networks block Google TV

The three major broadcast networks, uneasy about viewers bypassing cable and satellite providers -- and the networks' own websites -- to watch their TV shows, have begun blocking a new service from Google Inc. that is designed ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 20

Cable subscribers flee, but is Internet to blame?

(AP) -- Cable companies have been losing TV subscribers at an ever faster rate in the last few months, and satellite TV isn't picking up the slack.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 15

US, Germany developing secret spy satellites: cables

Germany and the United States are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed Monday.

Technology / Other

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 12

House votes to repeal regs on Internet access

(AP) -- House Republicans adamant that the government keep its hands off the Internet passed a bill Friday to repeal federal rules barring Internet service providers from blocking or interfering with traffic on their networks.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 97

Cable company inserts ads as subscribers surf

(AP) -- Mediacom Communications Corp., a cable company with more than 800,000 Internet subscribers, has tried something other U.S. Internet service providers have shied away from: It has inserted its own ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Georgian pensioner devastated after 'cutting Internet'

A 75-year-old woman arrested for single-handedly cutting off the Internet in Georgia and Armenia on Friday tearfully insisted she was innocent and said she had never heard of the web. ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Are you really ready to cut the cable?

Lots of TV shows and movies can now be found online, and the amount is increasing fast.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Google hints at TV service for ultra-fast broadband test

Google Inc. has sent an ever-clearer signal that it could be bringing a TV service to the Kansas City market.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Technology convergence may widen the digital divide

(Phys.org) -- Technology is helping communication companies merge telephone, television and Internet services, but a push to deregulate may leave some customers on the wrong side of the digital divide during this convergence, ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mobile Internet device performs unevenly in debut

If you could take broadband Internet with you, where would you take it? To an airport, a coffee shop or - this being Los Angeles - the beach, where you can surf the Net while watching surfers ride the waves?

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Netgear to help Internet subscribers measure use

(AP) -- How many gigabytes do you consume per month? Not many people can answer that question, complicating the efforts of Internet service providers to get their subscribers to stay below a certain amount of data per month. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

'Digital living room' getting closer

The digital living room is still under construction, but consumers can now get a glimpse of what it might look like.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Get everyone in US online, high-level panel says

(AP) -- The nation needs to give the same urgency to making sure all Americans have broadband access as the Eisenhower administration did in building an interstate highway system a half-century ago, a report ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Remote Wash. community to get phone service

(AP) -- One of the most remote communities in the lower 48 states is finally set to get phone service.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Survey of viewers shows extent of TV time shifting

(AP) -- If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series - watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand - you're now in the minority.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2