News tagged with time warner

US cable TV bleeds subscribers as online grows

The economic downturn has US cable television companies shedding subscribers in record numbers and Americans increasingly "cutting the cord" in favor of cheaper online options, new research shows.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 19

Broadcasters' woes could spell trouble for free TV

(AP) -- For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 16

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

Opera Software announces iPhone browser

(AP) -- Opera Software ASA announced Wednesday that it will unveil an iPhone version of its Opera Mini mobile phone browser at an international tech conference next week despite not having approached iPhone ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Google to sell Clearwire stake at 94 percent loss

(AP) -- Google Inc. on Friday said it will sell its stake in Clearwire Corp., the struggling operator of a wireless data network. The search company is taking a 94 percent loss on the originally $500 million investment made ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fox grants 'brief extension' in cable dispute

(AP) -- Fox and Time Warner Cable extended their contract for a few hours, avoiding a threatened blackout of several stations from the cable provider while the two sides tried early Friday to resolve a disagreement ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 01, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

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

Time Warner Cable shelves some Internet cap plans

Bowing to mounting public and political pressure, Time Warner Cable Inc. said Thursday it was shelving plans in four markets to charge customers based on how much Internet traffic they generate. But tests of metered billing ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Providers test the limits of access to Internet with new pricing systems

Your days of all-you-can-eat Internet buffet may be coming to an end. Probably not tomorrow, but soon enough, industry analysts say.

Technology / Telecom

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 12

Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Time Warner Cable asks help on rising program fees

(AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

AOL finally regains independence from Time Warner

(AP) -- AOL resumed life as an independent Internet company Thursday as it completed its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. and closed the book on one of the most disastrous business combinations in history.

Technology / Business

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Supreme Court rejects appeal of 'must-carry' rule

(AP) -- The Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge from cable television operators to the 18-year-old requirement that they carry local broadcast stations on their systems.

Technology / Telecom

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Time Warner Cable-Sinclair deal avoids TV blackout

(AP) -- After weeks in limbo, about 4 million of Time Warner Cable's customers will no longer have to worry about losing one of their network TV stations.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is the world's third largest media and entertainment conglomerate by market capitalization (behind News Corporation and The Walt Disney Company), headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. (TimeWarner.com Fact Sheet Page) Formerly three separate companies (and owns the assets of a fourth, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., acquired by a pre-AOL merger TW in 1996): Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. before the Time-Warner merger in 1990 and America Online, Inc. before its purchase of Time Warner in 2001 has created the current Time Warner , with major operations in film, television, publishing, Internet service and telecommunications. Among its subsidiaries are AOL, New Line Cinema, Time Inc., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, TheWB.com, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Kids' WB, The CW4Kids, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, CNN, DC Comics, and Warner Bros. Games.

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