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Cable’s Clearwire Quandary

Cable operators are betting $1.65B on the service that competes with cable modems and may never compete with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile.
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Clearwire Narrows Loss; Shares Fall

WiMax pioneer sees churn rate increase; lenders, shareholders are last hurdles for joint venture with Sprint Nextel.
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FCC Approves Verizon Wireless-Alltel

Federal Communications Commission signs off on so-called whites space rules, the Verizon Wireless-Alltel merger, and the tie-up of Sprint’s and Clearwire’s WiMAX businesses.
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WiChorus Nets $18M for WiMAX

Despite credit concerns in the carrier market, investors believe WiMAX, with billions of dollars worth of projects in the pipeline, will soldier on for some time.
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Finance

Xerox Beats Estimates, Plans Job Cuts

Xerox announces plans to cut 3,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its work force, to face tough economic climate.
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P2P Traffic to Quadruple

Is legal peer-to-peer traffic a bandwidth hog, an Internet time bomb, or just another misunderstood web business?
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TiVo Puts Interface on PCs

Partners with Nero for a TiVo PC interface as set-top box maker moves away from hardware.

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Cable Challenge: Wi-Fi or WiMAX?

Normally in lockstep on new technology, cable operators are divided on wireless, but experts say when the dust settles maverick Cablevision will come back to the pack.
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Media, Communications, Internet

Comcast Sues FCC

Cable operator says the ruling that it illegally blocked video traffic on its network was “legally inappropriate.”
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Cablevision Unwraps Free Wi-Fi

Unlike its rivals who chose WiMax, New York's maverick cable operator picks Wi-Fi for the largest free wireless mesh network in the United States.
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Media, Communications, Internet

TechSpin: Parsing the FCC's Comcast Decision

The slap on the wrist for slowing Web traffic exposes the fact that the U.S. federal agency's authority is not clear.
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Microsoft Nabs Navic Networks

The purchase of the interactive TV firm extends the Redmond giant’s reach to make it a player in the hot cable TV ad market.
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Cable Leaders Pilot Targeted Ads

The six largest U.S. cable TV operators unveil Canoe, a joint venture focused on using cable’s heaps of customer data to make TV ads more attractive.
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Cablevision to Spend $300M on Free Wi-Fi

As cable operators continue to struggle with the incorporation of mobile communications, New York-based company offers subscribers free Wi-Fi in neighborhoods.
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Will Google and Cable Firms Rejuvenate WiMAX?

A well-financed wireless broadband carrier with well-heeled backers motivated to innovate could jolt the WiMAX community out of its inertia.
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Tech Consortium Bids $14.5B on WiMAX

Google, Intel, Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House wager a fortune on an unproven but disruptive technology.
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Cable Giants Talk WiMAX

Comcast and Time Warner Cable are testing the waters for a joint venture with Sprint and Clearwire that may not solve cable's long-term problems.
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Computers, Media, Communications, Internet

Startups Battle Comcast Over Video Blocking

Firms say carrier is denying their customers critical bandwidth but the cable operator says P2P is a bandwidth hog that degrades service for all customers.
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Media, Communications, Internet

ThePlatform Directs Video Consortium

Company hopes to change the competitive landscape in the online video market by blending offerings from heap of companies.
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BlackArrow Strikes $12M for TV Ads

Startup finds viewers watching so-called time-shifted TV and inserts ads based on finely tuned demographic data.
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