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NCTC, ACA announce board elections
July 23, 2012 2:46 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsWOW’s Abdoulah to chair ACA board; NCTC elects five board directors.
Hood Canal adopts RGB infrastructure
July 23, 2012 2:44 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe service provider is initially using the set-up to reclaim analog bandwidth and introduce more high-definition channels.
TWC pumps $850,000 into new state-of-the-art hub in S.C.
July 23, 2012 1:58 pm | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsTime Warner Cable engineers took an innovative approach to a new hub in Summerville, S.C., by grouping services together into pods.
Buckeye CableSystem tunes up TV Everywhere with Azuki
July 23, 2012 1:57 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsThe Azuki Media Platform includes adaptive streaming, entitlement and digital rights management (DRM).
Plans to share federal spectrum met with skepticism
July 23, 2012 1:55 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsA plan to make the federal government share its spectrum with the wireless industry is being met with skepticism by an FCC commissioner and the wireless industry.
Survey: 50% of operators to deploy caching, CDNs by 2014
July 23, 2012 1:52 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsService providers rated Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper as the top service provider edge router and/or carrier Ethernet switch vendors.
Marvell, Wilocity partner on tri-band Wi-Fi
July 23, 2012 1:50 pm | by Andrew Berg, Wireless Week | News | CommentsMarvell and Wilocity announced a new partnership to bring tri-band Wi-Fi solutions enabled with 802.11ad to market.
Lake County's broadband effort in Minn. rankles private co.
July 23, 2012 1:48 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe project can't succeed without taking the majority of Mediacom's customers.
DirecTV customers: Sponge Bob is back
July 20, 2012 1:21 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsViacom and the satellite TV service provider have settled a dispute that had cut off access to 17 Viacom channels for DirecTV subscribers.
Hearst TV service continuing in New England
July 20, 2012 1:19 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsNew England viewers of Hearst television stations will continue to see their programs after the media company announced it has reached a retransmission consent agreement with Time Warner Cable.
Dish’s Q2 subscriber loss smaller than expected
July 20, 2012 1:17 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsDish Network lost 10,000 net subscribers in the quarter, which was smaller than analysts predicted in a typically weak quarter for pay-TV operators.
Google's Q2 earnings rise as clicks on ads soar
July 20, 2012 1:15 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsGoogle is getting even better at showing online ads to the right people at the right time. That enabled the Internet search leader to hit analysts' earnings target for the second quarter.
Microsoft reports 1st loss as public company
July 20, 2012 1:14 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsMicrosoft posted its first quarterly loss in its 26 years as a public company as it declared a struggling online ad business a bust and prepared for one of the biggest product updates in its history.
U.S. venture funding falls 12% in Q2 to $7B
July 20, 2012 1:07 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsFunding for start-ups fell 12 percent in the April-June period as U.S. venture capitalists poured less money into fewer deals than a year earlier.
Google stays coy on Motorola plans
July 20, 2012 12:01 pm | by Maisie Ramsay, Wireless Week | News | CommentsGoogle provided no details about its plans for Motorola Mobility during its earnings call, leaving the industry without an indication of the Internet search giant's strategy for the hardware space.


