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Time Warner Cable Backs Off Pay-Per-Byte Broadband Billing

Peter Kafka in Media on April 16, 2009 at 12:48 pm PT

That was quick. Time Warner Cable is shelving plans to charge its Internet customers based on usage. For now, that is. The cable giant had planned on charging customers in four locations on a “consumption” plan in which they’d pay between $15 to $150 a month based on the amount of data they hoovered via the Web. But noisy opposition to the plan surfaced immediately and has been getting louder over the past few weeks.

Kara Visits Kodak, Part 1

Kara Swisher in News on December 20, 2007 at 2:12 am PT

So I took a trip up to Rochester, N.Y., over the summer to visit Kodak, the once powerful film giant, which has been struggling in recent years to make the difficult transition from film to digital. I made a few videos there and then neglected to post them in the rush of other breaking news. [...]

Kara Visits Kodak, Part 2

Kara Swisher in News on December 20, 2007 at 2:05 am PT

The second video I made on my visit to Kodak HQ in Rochester, N.Y., is a talk with John Blake, who is a vice president and general manager of its digital capture and imaging devices division. It also includes a visit to its camera museum with the scientists who created the very first digital camera [...]

A Kodak Moment

Kara Swisher in News on August 7, 2007 at 4:01 am PT

Light posting today, as I am in Rochester, N.Y., visiting Kodak headquarters to get a look at what the company is doing in its continuing quest to revive itself after the onslaught of digital media drastically changed its business. I will be doing one of my “Kara Visits…” videos of my time at the photo [...]