NEW ORLEANS – HDTV homes (at least a whole bunch of them in Los Angeles) watch more television, overall, than other, non-HD households, according to new research released today…
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SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. network CBS agreed last week to buy CNET Networks, an Internet media company, for $1.8 billion in cash.
Under the agreement, CBS will pay $11.50…
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PARIS – The number of broadcast subscribers in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reached 235 million at December 2007, an increase of 18% from 200 million…
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NEW ORLEANS – Using a variety of techniques, but primarily switching a whole lot of analog channels over to digital, Comcast, the largest cable company in North America, says…
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OTTAWA – Timothy Denton, a specialist in legal and policy issues related to the Internet and communications, has been appointed as CRTC commissioner, Canadian Heritage announced Friday.
He was…
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CINCINNATI – The first full mobile digital TV transmission platform to meet the new Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) solution proposed earlier this week by LG Electronics, Inc. and…
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KELOWNA – Bringing fibre to new homes in greenfield developments “is a no-brainer,” SaskTel’s FTTP planner Mike Nijman told CommTech Show and Seminars delegates Wednesday afternoon.
But bringing it…
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PARIS – Governments and businesses must tackle the problem of a shortage of Internet addresses, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) states in a new report.
The…
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KELOWNA – The primary need when disaster happens anywhere is communication. Help can’t be co-ordinated or properly delivered if people can’t talk to each other.
And if the phone…
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TORONTO – Nitin Kawale has been appointed president of Cisco Canada. He’s replacing Terry Walsh, who after five years as head of Cisco Canada, is returning to his native Australia….
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