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Apple to buy Hollywood? Not a chance.

Could Apple spend its $100 billion in cash to create a virtual cable operator to compete with Comcast and the like? Sure. But it would have a really hard time offering a competitively priced service and building a profitable business out of it.

AT&T: The iPhone Was Good, But Not Good Enough To Hold Off A Q4 Loss

A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its failed bid to buy T-Mobile USA. The carrier swung to a loss and failed to meet analysts’ estimates on earnings, partly down to a $4 billion charge it...

What The Burst Of Hollywood A-Listers Will Mean For Online Video

Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. Ed Begley, Jr. Heidi Klum. What do these Hollywood A-Listers (or near A-Listers) and other stars all have in common? They’re all involved in original online video projects which are helping upend the Hollywood...

Dish Gets Ready to Serve Up Broadband and a Giant DVR

A pre-CES leak reveals some cool stuff, but not the Web-based cable killer some of you are rooting for.

It’s no T-Mo, but AT&T picks up Qualcomm airwaves

The FCC approved Qualcomm's sale of its 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T. The deal is striking for two reasons; it closes a big chapter in the history of mobile TV and the FCC said it will look at interoperability in LTE bands next year.

Get Netflix HD on a Galaxy Nexus and enjoy 720p vids

One of the biggest draws of the Galaxy Nexus is the 4.65-inch high-definition screen; literally a pocketable 720p HDTV display. But some video services still stream standard definition video. Here's how to get HD video from Netflix on the Nexus and what it looks like.

Ex-Cablevision COO Rutledge Turns Up As Charter CEO

It’s trite but in this case quite true: Cablevision’s loss is Charter’s gain. Tom Rutledge, the deft cable operator who abruptly left Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) late last week, will head St. Louis-based Charter (NSDQ: CHTR)—opting to run his own shop rather than continue the delicate balancing act of running the telecom...

Ex-Cablevision COO Rutledge Turns Up As Charter CEO

It’s trite but in this case quite true: Cablevision’s loss is Charter’s gain. Tom Rutledge, the deft cable operator who abruptly left Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) late last week, will head St. Louis-based Charter (NSDQ: CHTR)—opting to run his own shop rather than continue the delicate balancing act of running the telecom...

France Telecom’s Orange Looks To 3D And Xbox For New TV Bells And Whistles

With the growth of over-the-top services that let users access the video they want over the internet (and often, for free), those companies offering pay-TV have to look for more bells and whistles to keep fickle consumers interested in their services. The latest offerings in this area come from France Telecom’s Orange, which has signed...

Post Its $3.6 Billion Cable Deal, Verizon Puts Brakes On FiOS Expansion

Last week, Verizon announced a $3.6 billion deal to buy wireless spectrum from cable operators and resell their pay-TV services. This week, Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s CEO, started to lay out how that deal will impact other services operated and sold by the carrier: it looks like it will not continue to...

Comcast: No plans for usage-based broadband pricing

Many cable operators are considering new pricing for broadband services that would link the amount of data their subscribers consume with the amount they pay. But Comcast isn't one of them, as it doesn't want to "nickel-and-dime" customers of its highest-growth service.

Verizon’s spectrum deal with cable is the end of broadband competition

The spectrum deal that Verizon signed to buy the unused airwaves from the nation's top cable providers signals the moment that the consumer benefits of the convergence of voice, video and data hit the wall. It's a deal that's great for Verizon and bad for consumers.