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Google Fiber wins Netflix Speed Index again; Netflix hires HBO engineer; and frustrated Netflix iOS users have options
April numbers on Netflix’s USA ISP Speed Index show that Google Fiber is still the fastest provider but the top competitors are not that far behind. Google Fiber shows an average speed of 3.41 Mbps with the two closest ISP’s only about 1 Mbps behind. Cablevision – Optimum shows an average speed of 2.41 Mbps [...]
Aereo sues CBS to stop “Do-Over” suits in new launch areas
Yesterday, TV over internet service provider Aereo filed a complaint against CBS in an attempt to stop the network from filing further law suits against them. Aereo is a service that provides TV signals over the Internet to paid subscribers. It’s source content comes from over the air signals from broadcast networks like FOX, CBS, [...]
Guinness confirms film by IBM is now world’s smallest movie
Confirmed by Guinness, A Boy and His Atom, is the smallest movie in the world. IBM made this stop-motion film using molecules for pixels. Watch it at the end of this article. The stortline for the movie involves a “playful journey” between a single atom and the main character Atom. They bounce on a trampoline, [...]
CBS makes minority investment in Syncbak for streaming live TV
Big changes are afoot for over-the-air broadcast television with the popularity of streaming Internet TV giants like Netflix. Netflix has a larger subscriber base than that of HBO and Comcast and at peak times on the Internet, uses a third of the bandwidth in all of the United States. That fact, and because Aereo is [...]
Apps are the future of TV, according to Netflix CEO
Perhaps an obvious statement, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings feels that linear TV will subside, and the future of TV is in apps. That’s near accurate of a statement in the present and is almost a sure bet for the future. A TV app performs many functions. First it authenticates the content streamer with the content [...]
Comcast Cares Day expects participation from over 70,000 Comcast volunteers
Today is Comcast Cares Day, and it is expected that more than 70,000 employees from Comcast will volunteer internationally to clean up various sites in their respective neighborhoods. This year marks the 12th annual Comcast Cares Day, which is “the nation’s largest single-day corporate volunteer effort,” put together by NBCUniversal and Comcast. More than 700 [...]
Amazon’s upcoming set-top-box release will compete with Roku, Apple TV and the like
As early as this fall, Amazon reportedly will release a set-top-box (STB) giving users access to its vast collection of ever-growing streaming content of movies and TV shows. A set-top-box is merely a device that sits in between an Internet connection and a display (primarily a television set). Devices that “behave” as set-top-boxes also exist. [...]
DirecTV smartphone app to get Voice Search beta, soon
With DirecTV’s upcoming update to the phone apps for iOS and Android, users will be able to use voice commands to access the content they are looking for. There is often the complaint that it’s difficult to find and access certain shows in the sea of content availability. So, it seems, rather than educate the [...]
Comcast partners with Aspen Institute for third annual, ‘State of Race In America’
Comcast partnered with the Aspen Institute for this year’s Symposium on The State of Race In America, marking the third year for the conference. Meaningful discussions were held today regarding the issues that people of color have to face in the U.S. It is set to explore challenges as well as the opportunities available to [...]
DirecTV sues bar owner for allegedly using residential DirecTV account at business
Korey Lewis, owner of Pier One Pub (a.k.a. Pier One Pizza) in Boothbay Harbor, is being asked to pay $9,000 up front as “consequences for using pay TV signals without permission,” or may face stiffer charges if the case is taken to court. According to a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, Lewis [...]
