Month: November 2010

Net Neutrality Having had a number of awful experiences as a Comcast broadband subscriber, I’m prepared to believe six terrible things about the company before breakfast. But I’m having a hard time buying the accusations currently being leveled against it by Level 3 Communications. As most Concurrent Media readers probably know by now, Level 3 issued Read More …

Copyright With the French government struggling to translate its controversial “three-strikes” law into an effective anti-piracy regime, seizing the web domains of suspected pirates may become the tactic of choice for governments seeking to put a dent in online copyright infringement. Last week, more than 70 websites were shut down and had their domain names Read More …

Streaming Video Of the 22 brokerages providing research coverage of Netflix (NFLX), only one,  Piper Jaffray, has a current target price above Monday’s opening price of $191 a share. The average target price is $140 a share and the median target is $141, according to Thomson/First Call, indicating a pretty solid consensus among professional analysts Read More …

Connected Devices Walmart is starting to flex its streaming-video muscles. Later this month, the Vudu app will go live on the PlayStation 3, putting the Walmart-owned movie streaming service front and center on 15-20 million connected PlayStation consoles in the U.S. The app is also now available for PCs and Macs and will shortly be available Read More …

Update: Click through to see the comment thread for more on this topic. Google TV Asked at the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference Monday why the major broadcast networks continue to block access to their online content from Google TV, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was faintly mocking in his reply. “‘Do you realize you’re taking Read More …