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Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox
February 6, 2012 3:07 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsVerizon Communications will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
Consolidated to buy SureWest Communications for $340.9M
February 6, 2012 3:05 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsIn a move that merges two Tier 2 service providers, Consolidated Communications Holdings announced that it was buying SureWest Communications for roughly $340.9 million in cash and stock.
Harris plans to intro video file quality tools
February 6, 2012 2:54 pm | by Brian Santo | Products | CommentsThe company will have different versions of the tool appropriate for content producers, broadcasters, cable networks, post houses and other digital media operations.
Cablevision preps app to buy Super Bowl merchandise
February 3, 2012 1:47 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsCablevision is working with Shazam, Delivery Agent, and FMI to give consumers the ability to buy NFL paraphernalia during the Super Bowl.
Mediacom reaps rewards of analog-to-digital conversion projects
February 3, 2012 1:45 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsMediacom Communications has expanded its HD line-up for subscribers in Iowa, Alabama and Florida.
ATX Networks buys Arcos Technologies
February 3, 2012 1:39 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe purchase price could total over $26 million; just less than half that amount is to be paid upfront, with much of the balance to be paid as royalties contingent on future sales.
MetroPCS Revives $40 LTE Plan
February 3, 2012 1:37 pm | by Maisie Ramsay | News | CommentsThe company brings back a popular plan that was suspended when the company stopped selling a specific handset.
Japanese Entrepreneurs Aim for Silicon Valley
February 3, 2012 1:34 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsFor an emerging generation of Japanese innovators, the dream isn't a job for life at a big company. They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places.
Evolution on evolution
February 3, 2012 12:49 pm | by Brian Santo | Blogs | CommentsThe digital terminal adapter is one-way device, a limitation that both justifies its existence and bars it from being a long-term solution. From its introduction, the DTA has been considered a dead end – a very, very useful device – but a dead end. Evolution Digital thinks maybe not.
Comcast, Verizon's joint marketing effort docks in Bay Area
February 2, 2012 2:25 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsAmid increasing congressional scrutiny over their spectrum and reselling deal, Comcast and Verizon Wireless are now cross-promoting each other's products in San Francisco.
Kanouff leaves SeaChange
February 2, 2012 2:20 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsThe company said she will not be replaced and that the title of president will be eliminated as part of ongoing cost reduction measures.
U.S. digital textbook proposal puts a premium on broadband
February 2, 2012 2:16 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Department of Education and the FCC propose to phase out physical textbooks for electronic versions that can be easily revised and updated.
Suddenlink completes fiber network in Ark.
February 1, 2012 2:19 pm | by Mike Robuck | News | CommentsSuddenlink Communications has put the finishing touches on a new 162-mile fiber-optic network that was designed to better serve its customers in Arkansas.
Clearleap hires Van Orden as product marketing VP
February 1, 2012 2:06 pm | by Brian Santo | News | CommentsClearleap said it has hired television technology industry veteran Bob Van Orden as the company's new vice president of product marketing.
Sony's Hirai to replace Stringer as CEO in April
February 1, 2012 2:04 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsSony announced that Kazuo Hirai, who leads the company's core consumer products business, will replace Howard Stringer as CEO and president, effective April 1, as the electronics and entertainment company desperately tries to engineer a turnaround.
