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Simeon Spearman

Internet TV Isn't Ready to Displace Cable Just Yet - Technology Review - 0 views

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    "As the Roku figures suggest, cord-cutting is happening, so far, on a relatively small scale. For example, Nielsen reported that the number of households that have only broadband Internet and free broadcast channels increased by 631,000 in 2011. Meanwhile, 1.5 million homes ended TV service from cable, satellite, or telecommunications providers that same year."
Greg Steen

How YouTube Wins in the Great Unbundling of Cable TV | DigitalNext: A Blog on Emerging ... - 0 views

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    YouTube is trying to create a premium cable bundle
Simeon Spearman

How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe « blog maverick - 0 views

  • Oh, and one more thing. Expect your internet bills to go way way up as ISPs make it clear that all this video over the internet is going to require billions in upgrades. The irony is that while you may not like paying for cable channels you don’t watch. You will end up paying for cable channels on the internet that you don’t watch as well. In this case you will be paying via higher net bills for the extra bandwidth required to stream cable channels that your neighbors like to watch
Greg Steen

Comedian Rips Time Warner Cable in Hilarious Newspaper Ads - 0 views

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    "Did you know that on Yelp, Time Warner Cable has one and a half stars? That's less stars than Jeffery Dahmer-who killed and ate people"
Simeon Spearman

Rednecks, Juiceheads Big Draws for Cable - 0 views

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    Extreme manifestations of cultural stereotypes and oddball lifestyles rule on cable.
John Rich

PunditFact checks in on the cable news channels | PolitiFact - 0 views

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    Wow, the percentages of "Mostly False" to Completely Untrue" are astounding.
Greg Steen

Why the Internet Freaked Out When Fox Pulled House from Hulu - 0 views

  • Many observers immediately labeled Fox's block a violation of the principle of "network neutrality"—the idea that Internet service providers should allow subscribers to access all legal content online. Neutrality rules have been the subject of fierce debate in Washington, and activists are constantly on the lookout for perceived anti-neutrality maneuvering.

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    If Fox's move violated "neutrality," though, it wasn't in the way we've long defined that term. Advocates for net neutrality rules have mainly been concerned about the power that cable and phone companies can exert on the Internet. The theory is that in most local areas, broadband companies exist as monopolies or duopolies—you can get the Internet from your phone company or your cable company—and, therefore, are in a position to influence online content. What if, for instance, AT&T demanded that YouTube pay a surcharge every time a customer watches a video? To prevent such abuses, the Federal Communications Commission imposed Internet "openness" guidelines (PDF) in 2005, and since then regulators and lawmakers have been arguing about how to make those guidelines both permanent and enforceable.

    But this Fox-Cablevision-Hulu scenario turns the neutrality debate on its head. Here, it wasn't the broadband company—Cablevision—that blocked customers' access to content. Instead, it was the content company, Fox, that imposed the ban. Why is that distinction important? Because while it's easy to think of justifications for imposing neutrality regulations on broadband companies, it's less clear how we should feel about imposing rules on content providers. Telecom companies are regulated by the FCC, and there's a long history of the government forcing "openness" rules on public communications infrastructure. If the government can prohibit phone companies from deciding whom you can and can't call, shouldn't we have a similar rule preventing ISPs from deciding what you can get on the Web?

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    B/c House is awesome, obviously!  I bet it's lupus!  Srsly though, article talks about how internet content is beginning to be subject to the same bullshit as TV and other traditional media.  And net neutrality comes into play of course.
Ivy Chang

Beddi smartphone alarm dock hooks up to Uber, Spotify and Nest - 0 views

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    This $100 minimalistic dock houses an iOS or Android phone in landscape mode on the top, and recharging is done via your own USB cable -- you get a 2.1A port and a 1A port on the back. But it's really all about the companion app: Once paired up over Bluetooth, you can preset Beddi's three physical buttons to either call an Uber taxi, toggle a Spotify playlist, control the temperature on your Nest or switch on a Philips Hue light. Some of these can even be automated according to your desired schedule.
Simeon Spearman

A Shooting, and Instant Polarization - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    But if we have learned anything in the last few years, it is that traditional media are now only in charge of part of the story. There is a paucity of facts and an excess of processing power because everyone with a keyboard is theoretically a creator and distributor of content. Most of those efforts begin from behind a firmly established battle line, then row backward to find the facts that they need. Was that a dark spot on the back of George Zimmerman's head in the grainy police video, or evidence of a beat-down? We retweet and "like" what we agree with and dismiss the rest. As if the overheated cable news debate weren't enough, social media are fueling the story with misinformation, along with incendiary calls to action. There is a Twitter account called "@killzimmerman" that suggested George Zimmerman needed to be "shot dead in the street." On Twitter, the movie director Spike Lee passed on what he thought was Mr. Zimmerman's address, but it was wrong and an elderly couple was forced to flee from their home. And what if Mr. Lee had gotten it right? (Mr. Lee has since apologized and reached a settlement with the couple.)
Ivy Chang

Mercedes In-Car QR Codes Could Save Drivers' Lives - PSFK - 0 views

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    Mercedes will begin to place QR codes onto all of their cars, which will provide all necessary information to rescue injured occupants from any model. This new QR code system will give firefighters, paramedics, and police the details they need to know to help passengers, including the location of airbags, gas tanks, and electric cables. These QR codes will be placed on the gas tank flap and another will be placed on the opposite side of the car.
Ivy Chang

Hey cord cutters, the CW is now providing full TV episodes via Xbox Live | VentureBeat - 1 views

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    The CW app will offer viewers the option of watching new episodes of its programs the day after they air on television. And unlike on other services such as Hulu, you don't have to authenticate with a cable or satellite TV subscription before gaining access to all those new shows, either.
Ivy Chang

TV Is Dead! Long Live TV! | ClickZ - 0 views

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    cable companies starting to focus on VOD cordcutters up 23% over the past year
Emily Knab

Cutting the cable: Hulu Plus on our TV set - Lost Remote - 0 views

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    daily 1.12
Abeeda Mahboob

Zeebox Partners with Viacom in US - 0 views

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    It was a long-time coming, but last week we reported that UK-based second-screen app Zeebox finally launched in the US, where it has teamed up with a slew of broadcasters - 30 in total, including Comcast Cable, NBCUniversal, HBO & Cinemax Now, however, it seems that media behemoth Viacom is also backing Zeebox.
Emily Knab

Cable Companies Looking To Crush Netflix And Hulu With iPad Apps - 0 views

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    daily 8.13 Companies such as comcast will offer free apps to its subscribers to compete w. netflix and hulu search and watch content on tablet/iPad
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