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Social Networking Promises a New Era of Watching TV with Friends

Someone wants to bring back the golden era of TV, when entire families watched the tube with microwave dinners balanced carefully on their laps. Motorola, Intel and UK-based BT envision a TV viewing...

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Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 4: Telecom

,"migrated":true}]]The U.S. ranks 17th worldwide in broadband access, but not for long—last year's stimulus package allotted $7.2 billion for upgrading our underperforming broadband infrastructure....

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FCC Broadband Plan Promises High-Speed Internet For 100 Million More...

Today the Federal Communications Commission unveiled its plan to expand broadband Internet access to 100 million more Americans within the next five years. The plan calls both for the expansion of...

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100-Year-Old Trick Squeezes Fiber-Optic Speeds from Copper Wires

Netizens without access to cable broadband speeds might someday get fiber optic speeds over their old copper lines. Alcatel-Lucent combined several old networking tricks to boost DSL speeds over...

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How to Get Rid of Your DVR

It’s been a fun ride, but it may be the beginning of the end for conventional cable subscriptions and DVRs. A ton of original TV programming and other media is on the Web, and there are a number of...

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Google TV Unveiled, With Much Potential For the Web-Enhanced Future of...

At their developer conference today, Google announced their long-awaited Google TV service, which promises to merge the web with TV more smoothly and seamlessly than ever before. With some interesting...

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Lightweight Cable Made of Braided Nanotubes Could Replace Copper Wires

Cables made out of nanowires could be just as efficient as the copper cables we’ve been using for more than a century, but at a fraction of the weight, according to a new paper. Braiding billions of...

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All Of The World's Undersea Cables In One Map

,"migrated":true}]]It might feel like our communications systems have evolved past the point where we'd need tons of cables, but it couldn't be further from the truth--undersea cables are an integral...

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CES 2014: Dish Shows Off A Family Of New TV Boxes

,"migrated":true}]]A dead-eyed kangaroo mascot straight out of a third-tier baseball league fist-bumped me on the way in to the Dish press conference, inside a giant banquet hall, where the president...

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Why The Supreme Court Thinks Streaming Is Cable TV

,"migrated":true}]]Yesterday, in a 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court in ABC v. Aereo, the government ruled that Aereo's streaming of cable TV over the web is illegal. In the process, the Supreme Court...

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Social Networking Promises a New Era of Watching TV with Friends

Technology Someone wants to bring back the golden era of TV, when entire families watched the tube with microwave dinners balanced carefully on their laps. Motorola, Intel and UK-based… Someone wants...

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Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 4: Telecom

Technology Boosting anemic broadband speeds and wireless networks stuck in the 20th century The U.S. ranks 17th worldwide in broadband access, but not for long—last year's stimulus package allotted...

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FCC Broadband Plan Promises High-Speed Internet For 100 Million More...

Technology Today the Federal Communications Commission unveiled its plan to expand broadband Internet access to 100 million more Americans within the next five years. The plan calls… Today the Federal...

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100-Year-Old Trick Squeezes Fiber-Optic Speeds from Copper Wires

Technology The technology could enable 100-megabit home DSL without an infrastructure upgrade Netizens without access to cable broadband speeds might someday get fiber optic speeds over their old...

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How to Get Rid of Your DVR

Gadgets With a few tricks, you can get more content than you ever thought possible off your computer and onto your TV screen It’s been a fun ride, but it may be the beginning of the end for...

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Google TV Unveiled, With Much Potential For the Web-Enhanced Future of...

Gadgets At their developer conference today, Google announced their long-awaited Google TV service, which promises to merge the web with TV more smoothly and seamlessly than ever… At their developer...

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Lightweight Cable Made of Braided Nanotubes Could Replace Copper Wires

Technology Cables made out of nanowires could be just as efficient as the copper cables we’ve been using for more than a century, but at a fraction of the weight, according to a new… Cables made out...

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All Of The World's Undersea Cables In One Map

Technology Take a look at the submerged backbone of the internet. It might feel like our communications systems have evolved past the point where we'd need tons of cables, but it couldn't be further...

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CES 2014: Dish Shows Off A Family Of New TV Boxes

Gadgets Both your standard set-top boxes and new virtual versions A dead-eyed kangaroo mascot straight out of a third-tier baseball league fist-bumped me on the way in to the Dish press conference,...

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Why The Supreme Court Thinks Streaming Is Cable TV

Technology To decide ABC v. Aereo the Supreme Court leaned on history, as any court should. But most justices picked the weirdest, dustiest parts of the law. Yesterday, in a 6-3 decision by the...

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