Posted on 14 May 2010. Tags: Apple, Clearwire Corp., Comcast, Echostar Corp., FLO TV, Google, iPad, Motorola Inc., Nexus One, remote, search, Sling Media, The Cable Show, Time Warner Cable Inc., TV, Xfinity Remote
**As published in RCR Wireless News**
LOS ANGELES – After spending the last three days up close and personal with the cable industry at its big annual affair, I’m disappointed to report that mobile was hard to find. The wireless innovations and news I’d hoped to see were simply not there.
I’m not sure lobbying will do the trick, but the entire mobile industry should do everything it can to bring wireless out from the distant horizon it sits in now and into clear view for most business in this space who don’t yet see the light. Read the full story
Posted in Apps, Devices, Entertainment, Marketing, Policy, Tech, Video+TV
Posted on 13 May 2010. Tags: Apple, Brian Roberts, CBS Corp., Comcast Corp., DreamWorks Studios, FCC, iTunes, Les Moonves, Michael Powell, Stacey Snider, The Cable Show
**As published in RCR Wireless News**
LOS ANGELES – Media moguls from cable operators, networks and studios met on stage Wednesday morning with a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and a venture capitalist to hold court on the rapidly changing business models facing the industry and how alternative screens are playing a role in that.
“Every single piece of technology that’s come into being has been a friend to content,” said Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp. It’s hard to imagine him saying that even just a few short years ago, but he shows every indication of being on board now. Read the full story
Posted in Devices, Entertainment, Marketing, Policy, Tech, Video+TV
Posted on 12 May 2010. Tags: Booyah, Brian Roberts, Comcast Corp., Cox Communications Inc., David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, Glenn Britt, Keith Lee, Mike Roudi, Nokia Theatre, Patrick Esser, The Cable Show, Time Warner Cable, Wi-Fi
**As published in RCR Wireless News**
LOS ANGELES – The mobile quotient during the first day of the National Cable & Telecommunications conference was disappointingly light. Particularly light, considering telecommunications is right there in the name.
Mobility plays an important and mostly dominant role in telecom but if this industry gathering is any sign, it still has a long way to go before it comes into the spotlight for cable. Read the full story
Posted in Apps, Devices, Gaming, Policy, Tech, Video+TV
Posted on 12 May 2010. Tags: Android, Apple, Brian Roberts, Comcast Corp., General Electric, Google, iPhone, NBC, NBC Universal, The Cable Show
**As published in RCR Wireless News**
LOS ANGELES – To hear Comcast Corp.’s chairman and CEO Brian Roberts tell it, the cable industry is on a collision course with destiny. The seemingly neatly divided world of entertainment that Roberts first jumped into as the son of Comcast’s founder Ralph Roberts is no more.
If all goes his way, the family-run business will pass all regulatory hurdles and close its $30-billion dollar deal to snatch up the controlling interest in General Electric’s NBC Universal by the end of the year. Surely few, if any in the audience here for Roberts’ keynote could have dreamed two decades ago of a cable operator becoming so powerful and flush enough with cash that it could take control of a content juggernaut like NBC. Read the full story
Posted in Apps, Devices, Entertainment, Marketing, Policy, Tech, Video+TV
