Time Warner Cable Prices Usage Caps In Texas Trial By Todd Spangler - 06/03/2008
Time Warner Cable this week plans to begin charging new broadband customers in a small Texas system extra if they exceed set bandwidth-usage limits—becoming one of the first in the industry to deviate from standard unlimited-usage pricing.
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Dish Could Use Spectrum for Mobile Video, Broadband By Linda Moss - 12/04/2007
EchoStar Communications could use spectrum acquired in the upcoming 700 MHz auction to develop a mobile video and broadband service, a Wall Street analyst said Tuesday.
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Britt: Time Warner Will Not Participate in Spectrum Auction By Mike Farrell - 12/03/2007
New York – Time Warner Cable president and CEO Glenn Britt officially took his cable company out of the running for the 700 Megahertz wireless spectrum auction later this year, telling a group of investors and analysts here that TWC will sit this one out.
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Tweens Going Mobile By Linda Moss - 12/03/2007 An in-depth study on the mobile-media behavior of “tweens,” those ages 8 to 12, found that 35% own a mobile phone, according to Nielsen Co.More
TV Guide Lands on Helio Mobile Phones By Todd Spangler - 11/21/2007
Gemstar-TV Guide International announced a deal Wednesday with mobile operator Helio to sell a service that provides TV listings, entertainment news and other content to wireless handsets.
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Google Plants Seeds for 'Open' Mobile Internet Devices By Todd Spangler - 11/05/2007
Google, hoping to make a thousand mobile devices bloom, announced plans Monday to provide open-source software for mobile phones in a global project that has support from 33 wireless carriers, handset manufacturers and other companies.
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ESPN Breaks Into Microsoft's Xbox By Todd Spangler - 11/05/2007
ESPN will offer a range of game replays and programming for sale to users of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console, adding a second online distributor for on-demand content along with Apple’s iTunes Store.
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Chrysler Parks ‘Payne’ Pact 10/30/2007
Chysler is in the driver’s seat with TBS’s sitcom series Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, steering a multiplatfrom deal for its 2008 Chrysler Town & Country model.
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Forecast is Breakthrough on Mobile Video By Kent Gibbons - 10/23/2007
The Weather Channel has launched an ad-supported, mobile video forecast service aimed at 100 U.S. cities that will work on most mobile-video handsets.
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MobiTV Extends Sprint Deal By Todd Spangler - 10/22/2007
MobiTV extended its agreement with Sprint Nextel, announcing a multiyear agreement to continue providing mobile television and video services to Sprint customers and to subscribers of the Pivot service marketed by four cable companies.
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Sprint Looking to Replace CEO Forsee
By Todd Spangler - 10/05/2007
Sprint Nextel has initiated a search to replace chairman and CEO Gary Forsee as the wireless carrier has trailed competitors in subscriber acquisition and retention, according to published reports.
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MobiTV Hires New CEO By Todd Spangler - 10/01/2007
MobiTV has appointed Charlie Nooney, formerly president of Thomson’s Technicolor Network Services division, as chief executive officer.
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Motorola Bows Live-TV Phone for Verizon Wireless By Todd Spangler - 09/28/2007
Verizon Wireless will begin selling Motorola’s MotoRizr Z6tv phone on Oct. 5, the first phone from Motorola to support the operator’s live V CAST Mobile TV service.
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Disney Folds Phone Venture; Seeks ‘New Business Model’ By Todd Spangler - 09/27/2007
The Walt Disney Co. said it will shut down its U.S.-based mobile virtual network phone service at the end of the year, concentrating instead on “a new business model” for content and services that may be offered through a partnership with a major U.S. wireless carrier.
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Adult Swim Backs College Hip-Hop Tour 09/19/2007
Adult Swim and mobile provider Helio will make their presence known on a dozen college campuses as sponsors for a hip-hop tour headlined by Ghostface Killah that kicks off Oct. 1.
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NFL Kicks Dirt At Comcast, Other Cable Operators By Ted Hearn - 09/13/2007
Washington – The National Football League, which rakes in $3.7 billion a year in TV revenue alone, is accusing the cable industry of favoring channels it owns and discriminating against unaffiliated channels such as the NFL Network through less favorable economic terms and channel positioning.
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E! Goes Mobile for Emmy Red Carpet Coverage By Linda Moss - 09/13/2007
E! Entertainment Television will offer its Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage on several new-media platforms, including broadband and mobile, officials said Thursday.
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Verizon Wireless Plugs College Pigskin Lineup By Todd Spangler - 08/29/2007
Verizon Wireless is promising to let sports fans in about 30 markets watch more than 100 live college football games this season -- including 20 bowl games -- on tiny little mobile-phone screens.
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CableLabs Reaches Deal to Let Devices Run IP Video By Todd Spangler - 08/23/2007
CableLabs, in conjunction with four major movie studios, approved a technical specification developed by five consumer-electronics makers that will let set-top boxes and other devices send cable programming -- in an encrypted format -- over Internet Protocol home networks.
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Verizon Wireless Serves 'Letterman' On Demand By Todd Spangler - 08/20/2007
Starting Tuesday, Verizon Wireless subscribers will be able to watch full-length, commercial-free episodes of CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on the mobile carrier’s V CAST Video service.
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