Clearwire stepped up its efforts to get more wholesale customers today as it braces for the loss of its largest customer, Sprint, which is phasing out devices that use Clearwire’s WiMAX network in favor of its own LTE service. Clearwire has hired a firm to reduce the “time to market, effort and cost” of using […]
Telecommunications
Sprint hangs up on Carrier IQ
Warranted or not, the controversy over Carrier IQ’s software is affecting its business. Sprint has decided to remove the technology from its software through a series of over-the-air updates after disabling it last month because of “customer concerns,” a company spokeswoman said. “As we are no longer using the tool, we have decided to remove […]
Study finds tablet, e-book ownership soared
Tablets and e-readers were a popular gift over the holidays, so much so that the number of people who own them nearly doubled between mid-December and January, a new study found. A report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project set to be released Monday found that 29 percent of Americans owned at least […]
Time Warner Cable serves up live TV in the home with iPhone app
Time Warner Cable’s TWC TV app is now available for use on iPhones, which means subscribers can now watch live shows in their homes, remotely manage their DVRs and change channels with their iPhones. The free iPhone app, which is available for download from iTunes, follows on the heels of last month’s release of the […]
Cable ops divulge Verizon marketing deals to FCC
Four cable companies selling a massive swath of AWS spectrum to Verizon Wireless for nearly $4 billion have decided to tell the FCC about the extensive marketing deals that go along with the transactions, but they don’t want the details made public. Cox Communications, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks said the cross-marketing […]
Google’s Q4 disappoints; Android going strong
Investors dumped shares of Google after yesterday’s fourth-quarter earnings call, sending shares of the company plummeting 9 percent in after-hours trading, spurred largely in part by a reported 8 percent drop in cost per click (CPC), or the amount advertisers pay every time a person clicks one of Google’s online ads. Profits and total revenues […]
Intel’s Q4 earnings rise 6%, top St. estimate
Intel, the world’s largest chip-maker, on Thursday said its profit rose 6 percent in the latest quarter, topping analyst expectations, even as hard drive shortages held back PC makers’ chip orders. The Santa Clara, Calif., company also provided a forecast for the new quarter that matched analyst expectations. Intel’s results, like Apple’s in recent quarters, […]
Comcast’s Parker box goes for a test drive at the FCC
Comcast is planning its first major rollout of its next-generation Xcalibur service for early this year, so it makes sense that reports are surfacing that the box, which is called “Parker” by Comcast, being used for the service is making its way through testing at the Federal Communications Commission. Both Engadget and Ubergizmo reported yesterday […]
Time Warner Cable WiFi Finder app now available for iOS devices
Following up on a Wi-Fi finder app for Android devices last month, Time Warner Cable’s TWC WiFi Finder app now works with iOS devices. The app, which is available via iTunes, currently only works in Time Warner Cable’s large Los Angeles Wi-Fi network, but it will eventually be available to the rest of the country, […]
Zodiac claims 2 more customers for HTML5 platform
Zodiac Interactive said that it has signed two more cable customers for its PowerUp HTML5 platform within their respective service environments. The two operators were identified only as Tier 1 North American MSOs. The company previously announced that it has been working with Cablevision and with Videotron. PowerUp HTML5 has been developed as a service-based, […]