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12 Unwritten Rules of Cell Phone Etiquette

Authored by Scott Goldberg on December 14, 2006 - 5:28am.
There are some hard, cold truths to the way we use our cell phones, but they’ve become commonplace to the point of forming an accepted, unwritten code. We all screen calls we should otherwise answer. We all reply to missed calls with texts. We pray to reach voicemail on calls we have to (but don’t want to) make. When we call someone and they don’t answer, and we know they looked at their phone and made a decision to ignore our call, we’re okay with that, because we likely, at some point in the day, did the same thing to someone else.
tags: Mobile | Internet | Consumers | Telecom | Millennials | Cellphone | Scott Goldberg | Telco | Society | Lists |

AT&T Offers New Broadband Subscribers Free Vongo Trial

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 7, 2006 - 4:04pm.
San Antonio, Texas - AT&T on Thursday announced a promotion that will provide new subscribers to its AT&T Yahoo broadband service with a 30-day free trial of Vongo, the Internet video-on-demand service from Starz Entertainment.
tags: Internet | Marketing | Tech | VOD | TV | Broadband | Movies | AT&T | Promotions | IPTV | ISP | Vongo | Telco |

Verizon Signs Comcast Channels for FiOS TV Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 4, 2006 - 3:24pm.
New York - Verizon announced on Monday that it has signed a programming distribution agreement with Comcast, to offer Comcast SportsNet-Philadelphia and Comcast SportsNet-Philadelphia HD to Verizon FiOS TV subscribers in Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey. Under the deal, Verizon will also offer other Comcast sports and entertainment channels to FiOS TV subscribers, in addition to programming from Versus and PBS KIDS Sprout.
tags: Video | TV | Verizon | Comcast | IPTV | FiOS | Cable | Telco |

NDS Acquires Residential Gateway Software Firm Jungo

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 4, 2006 - 2:55pm.
London - NDS, a unit of News Corp. that provides technology for digital pay-TV services, announced on Monday that it has acquired Jungo, a provider of software for residential gateways, in a deal valued at $107.5 million.
tags: Deals | Video | Tech | Acquisitions | IPTV | Software | Video Tech | Israel | NDS | Telco | Jungo |

Thoughts on TelcoTV 2006: Complete Solutions vs. Best-of-Breed Solutions

Authored by colin_dixon on November 16, 2006 - 7:03am.
At last week's TelcoTV conference in Dallas, I had the opportunity to speak with a variety of vendors whose technologies enable the delivery of TV services over telecom networks. Many had exciting new features pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the delivery of digital TV services. But amongst all the customer wins and service updates, I sensed a familiar theme echoing through my conversations with the smaller, independent vendors: how can we compete with the 'Big Guys' – the vertically-integrated 'complete solution' vendors?
tags: Video | Marketing | Tech | TV | Metrics | Microsoft | IPTV | TDG | Software | Events | ISP | Cable | Telco |