Month: August 2010

Tablets A couple of photos tweeted Friday by Best Buy CTO and Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens has the folks at CrunchGear, and elsewhere, wondering aloud whether the electronics mega-retailer may be working on a tablet device to be marketed under Best Buy’s own brand. I can’t speak to the branding, but of course Best Read More …

Mobile TV With the demise of Qualcomm’s Flo TV service, and interesting clash could be brewing between digital platform providers and incumbent video providers over the best new approach to making TV service mobile. As I noted in a previous post, both Google and Apple appear to be working on strategies to integrate mobile video with Read More …

Libraries With so many folks beating up on Google this week for being evil and allegedly cutting a net neutrality deal with Verizon I want to take a moment to give the devil his due where it’s, well, due. Far away from the FCC’s 12th Street offices in DC, Google has been engaged in a Read More …

UPDATE: The FCC has now officially called off its net neutrality talks, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. As I noted below, Genachowski lost control of the process. Net neutrality Google and Verizon today each issued partial denials of last night’s reports of a deal regarding net neutrality, Google in a Tweet and Verizon in Read More …

Cable TV For all the hype about “cord-cutting” and over-the-top video delivery they don’t seem to be impacting incumbent pay-TV providers’ bottom lines, at least not yet. Yesterday, Time Warner Cable posted a 8.2% rise in 2nd quarter earnings, driven by solid earnings growth. Last week, rival Comcast also beat the Street on the top Read More …