Archive for May 28th, 2010
Engadget has the scoop on Apple’s next incarnation of Apple TV, which actually looks more interesting than their original, somewhat underwhelming product. According to anonymous tipsters likely countering all that Google TV discussion, Apple’s next AppleTV device will be about the size of an iPhone — and will cost just a hundred bucks. It looks [...]
ActiveVideo Networks, based in San Jose, Calif., has accused Verizon Communications of infringing five of its interactive television patents. A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia alleges that Verizon’s FiOS system is using technology developed by ActiveVideo, Cablevision’s top interactive TV vendor. The patents listed in the suit [...]
It appears that municipalities might have the upper hand over area telcos and cable operators as North Carolina’s Senate Finance Committee decided to postpone passing a law that would require cities and towns to get voter okay before getting money to construct a broadband network. Doug Paris, an assistant to Salisbury’s city manager, which got [...]
Slashdot directs our attention to the fact that wireless carriers are just starting to realize they can monetize all matter of data collected from mobile users — specifically data that highlights their movement habits. According to MIT Technology Review, researchers and marketers are finding plenty of new uses for call detail records, or CDRs — [...]
Several users have written in to note that Symatec has announced the beta of their own Norton-branded DNS service. Like OpenDNS, the service supposedly speeds up DNS performance. It also redirects users who enter misspelled or nonexistent URLs to a search portal (this service uses ask.com) — but also offers users a number of added [...]
Rumors that Mexico telecom giant Carlos Slim wants to thwart even more competition in its Brazil market by snapping up Portugal Telecom, which owns a stake in local operator Vivo, have been put to rest. A report yesterday morning emerged that Slim was going to try to prevent Telefonica (NYSE: TEF), a stakeholder of Vivo, [...]
The FCC recently issued a report on wireless industry competition that for the first time in seven years did not declare the sector to be competitive. That of course led to feigned indignation by carriers, who obviously declare every market they service to be a competitive Utopia of the highest order. Of course the reality [...]
AT&T (NYSE: T) believes that business telecom service spending will continue to improve. Speaking at this week’s Barclays Capital 2010 Global Communications, Media & Technology Conference in New York City, Ron Spears, CEO of Business Solutions, believes that business spending is beginning to stabilize. “If current trends hold, we would like to think headwinds we’ve seen [...]
RCN Metro’s (NasdaqGS: RCNI) newly-minted partnerships with three emerging Ethernet Exchange operators–CENX, Equinix (NasdaqGS: EQIX) and Neutral Tandem–reflects the fact that expanding its Ethernet out of region through carrier partnerships, while necessary, comes with the price of having to strike complex one-off interconnection agreements. By taking an all-of-the-above approach with its latest Ethernet expansion drive [...]