Peter Kafka in Media on May 8 at 10:20 am PT
It’s easier than ever to get what you want to watch without paying for TV. But you’re still doing it.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 19 at 4:50 pm PT
Sprint has made a big bet on the iPhone. And if it doesn’t pull it off, things could get ugly.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 22 at 3:29 pm PT
Don’t expect Google to break the bundle when it experiments with cable TV. But you could see some cool features, like a cloud-based DVR, and a programming guide that doesn’t make you want to scream.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 27 at 7:39 am PT
Here’s how your monthly cable bill gets split up. Spoiler: Disney and ESPN get a really big chunk.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
Running a cable TV operation is an expensive, messy, un-Googley business. Which is why there’s no way Larry Page is going to do that, says Sanford Bernstein.
Fifteen years after their initial Comcast investment, Microsoft’s vision of a Windows-based gateway to the television still hasn’t materialized. Now it is Google’s turn to storm the fortress. And, like Microsoft before them, they have decided to do it from the inside.
Bernstein Research’s Craig Moffett, in a note (reg. required) savaging the notion that buying Motorola will allow Google to disrupt the TV business. Moffett does see a role for Google in helping cable operators measure and target TV advertising, though. For a less pithy take, read AllThingsD.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 22, 2011 at 1:06 pm PT
Time to get the cord-cutting headlines out again.
John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 6:45 am PT
Good news for long-suffering Sprint Nextel investors: Customer retention has finally improved to the point where the carrier is able to report actual gains in postpaid subscribers, rather than losses.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 10, 2011 at 8:44 am PT
Even if cord-cutting is real, very few of you are actually going to do it. Your reward from the cable guys? A bigger bill in 2011.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 1, 2010 at 12:52 pm PT
Everyone has something to say about today’s speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality. Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users of BitTorrent, the commission has been spinning its wheels trying to find a way to nudge the broadband industry in a direction toward treating all Internet content fairly.
