Yawn. Another broadcast news group is going to offer up free video clips on the Internet? This time it is CBS News. They, like other traditional media companies, want to capture TV viewers who are...

Further details have emerged on BT's plans for its broadband television service, now aiming to launch by summer 2006. BT will offer a hybrid broadband and broadcast system, combining a digital...

This just in: America Online, XM, and AEG have form a joint venture called Network Live that will deliver live and on-demand concerts and comedy shows via the Internet, wireless and satellite. They...

Andy Bechtolsheim was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems with Scott McNealy. In 2003, Andy went and founded Kealia, a super-secret startup that was building a distributed, high-availability video server...

Interactive TV is one of those technologies that enable many new services but yet we know so little about. In its simplest explanation, interactivity means this: there is a 'return path'...

(Excerpted from The New York Times Technology Section) After years of avoiding it, Hollywood studios are preparing to let people download and buy electronic copies of movies over the Internet, much as...

AOL provided live coverage of the recent Live 8 concerts, featuring feeds from London, Philadelphia and other capitals around the world, reaching a record 175,000 simultaneous streams and a total of 5...

OpenTV is an Interactive TV middleware company owned by Liberty Media. I keep an eye on them because they are putting together the relationships and ITV technology that might make them a significant...

Here is another example of a cable network experimenting with Internet Television. Nickelodeon has launched a new broadband internet channel called TurboNick. The "channel" will contain 20...

Broadband penetration in the U.S. is a growth market right now. Here are some statistics published by Leichtman Research Group about market size and market share as of the end of Q1 2005. The breakout...

From today's Wall Street Journal in regard's to the annual Sun Valley CEO retreat: Sumner Redstone is known for telling investors and journalists that "content is king." But...

Is it too late to trademark that phrase? TiVo created its TiVo-To-Go program that allows you to carry your recordings on portable devices such as a laptop. This blog reported about Echostar investing...

I know, I know ... you read this blog (and others) for news about IPTV and inevitably you end up reading about so many things going on in asia and Europe. But some of us live right here in the......

Lately, a number of articles in the mainstream press have questioned Akimbo's future, because arguably the service still doesn't have critical mass in terms of content. But Akimbo isn't...

Scientific-Atlanta has interest to expand its focus beyond its core cable customer base to target the emerging market for IPTV. Just in June alone, I spotted three press releases of some importance....

Cable companies have been doing very well with their Voice over IP bundle (VoIP). Om Malik reported recently that Time Warner is having 'monster' growth this year and is adding 10,000...

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article entitled "Alerted by Users, Google Removes Free Video Clips." Apparently, there was a significant copyright infringment that allowed...

Time Warner will spin out its cable MSO next year. I recall, they expected to do that over 1� years ago but postponed that event to better build value. In June, Time Warner dismissed rumors that its...

Sky, the UK-based media company owned by Rupert Murdock, has been very active in a wide variety of new entertainment-oriented technologies. Next year Sky will launch a new set top box for their...