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WebTV Networks Inc. founder Steve Perlman is heading a stealth technology and production company that's armed with cash from AOL Time Warner Inc, Vulcan Ventures Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. [...]

The open-access deal between Time Warner Cable and High Speed Access Corp. is a breakthrough agreement for both companies. For Time Warner, the deal, announced on May 8, fulfills merger [...]

Developments on the video-gaming front that came to light at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles should be of more than passing interest to cable operators. The hardware [...]

Start-up GoldPocket Interactive - armed with $55 million in venture capital, additional funding from AOL Time Warner Inc., a unique software and network structure and some friends in high places [...]

The retail future of the personal video recorder is still to be determined. And PVR makers face a tough challenge: selling consumers on a costly VCR substitute that also commands [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Although the National Association of Broadcasters convention is largely a venue in which TV producers and broadcasters craft deals, a handful of cable networks used the opportunity [...]

Patti Hart knows she's stepping into a broadband maelstrom. The new chairman and chief executive officer of beleaguered Excite@Home Corp. has a challenging task ahead. On her to-do list: Solve [...]

A new start-up streaming company -- backed by Cisco Systems Inc. and Sony Corp. -- claims to be able improve the efficiency of transmitting rich-media content to thousands of users [...]

Cartoon Network is just one-third of its way through a 'Toonami Reactor' broadband-content promotion, but has already signed up 51 cable systems serving 7.2 million subscribers -- and it's generating [...]

Decades ago, all news radio used this marketing hook to grab listeners: Gives us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world. For interactive television, the phrase could be: Give us [...]

Dust off those 1999 business plans. As the cable network sector of the broadband content universe sifts through the Internet economy wreckage. what was once old is now new again. [...]

The average broadband user spends 170 minutes a day online, spread across 3.6 sessions that last, on average, 47 minutes. Those are among the findings in Excitre@Home's latest research into [...]

One million set-tops. That, according to OpenTV president James Ackerman, is the magic number that content developers need before they start developing interactive TV applications. 'It's hard for the content [...]

Advertising banners and streamed-video ads of new sizes have crept into the online-marketing mix, giving broadband-content providers hope that the new formats will spark increased interest in Web advertising. CNN [...]

Four years after its formation, on-demand entertainment provider Intertainer Inc. has landed its first full-scale deployment. The 40,000 subscribers to Broadwing Inc.'s Zoom-Town digital subscriber line service in Cincinnati will [...]

While much of the Internet-content world is littered with dead bodies and retreating media armies, the Broadband Content Delivery Forum is soldiering on with its work to accelerate the delivery [...]

DENVER -- AT&T Broadband CEO Daniel Somers indicated last week that the MSO is still eyeing a full-year goal of 3 million new revenue-generating units, despite the economic slowdown. At [...]

Charter Communications Inc.'s successful drive to finish 2000 with 1 million digital set-top subscribers was one of cable's top marketing stories of the year. Now the company's $24.95-a-month pricing for [...]

NEW YORK -- Sony Broadband Entertainment will likely have three major online subscription services in the movie, music and gaming arenas by yearend, largely built on broadband transmission platforms from [...]

NEW YORK -- Cheaper monthly prices and marketing messages that more clearly sell the attributes of high-speed access are the key to generating large increases in cable-modem penetration, analysts at [...]

One of the dilemmas in the streaming-media business is that the PC-based technologies developed by Microsoft Corp., RealNetworks Inc. and Apple Computer Corp. are all incompatible. While there is movement [...]

Fox Sports Net will debut a Web-developed extreme sports show from Zoom Culture in April titled Playground Earth and culled from the most popular segments on the Web site www.zc.tv. [...]

Broadband content providers got a boost last week from news that advertising agencies view streaming media as a viable ad medium. The 'Advertising Agency Streaming Media Awareness Study,' conducted by [...]

Comcast Corp. is consolidating its three commercial business telecommunications divisions into Comcast Business Communications, a new wholly owned company intended to target suburban businesses in its cable-franchise areas. CBC will [...]

Set-top maker Scientific-Atlanta Inc. is licensing personal video recording software from Metabyte Networks Inc. for its advanced digital boxes. Although targeted for S-A's 'Explorer 8000' series, Metabyte's software can also [...]

Americans are spending less time on the Internet, but more time with audio and video streaming, according to the latest research from Arbitron/Edison Media Research. Based on a survey of [...]

Convera Corp. -- the content-asset management company formed with Intel Corp.'s purchase of Excalibur Technologies Corp. -- hopes to parlay its recent success with the National Basketball Association to draw [...]

A new study predicts interactive television in the United Kingdom is headed for trouble unless content producers and middleware/service providers develop a more equitable economic model. A Forrester Research report [...]

Hoping to capitalize on the public's infatuation with new Internet technologies, ICTV Inc. said it will introduce new software that supports MPEG-4 video streaming and MP3 music-file downloads from the [...]

Excite@Home Corp. said cable-modem subscribers are becoming more mainstream, even though usage of the online service has dropped precipitously over the past year. Based on a survey of 2,800 Excite@Home [...]

Time Warner Cable, branching out from its existing cable-modem contracts with Toshiba Corp. and Motorola Inc., last week announced it will also buy cable modems from Ericsson, giving the Sweden-based [...]

The delays the cable industry has faced in getting advanced digital set-tops into the field have produced a silver lining. Shifts in consumer behavior - as highlighted by Napster Inc.'s [...]

Motorola Inc. is developing a new set-top box that boasts 300 megahertz of processing power, up to 128 megabits of DRAM and can support three-dimensional gaming, on-demand music and video, [...]

Acknowledging that its DirecPC data service trails other broadband service providers, Hughes Electronics Corp. plunged into the digital subscriber line business by buying Telocity Inc. for $180 million. In the [...]

Interactive-television software and content providers spent a lot more time announcing deals with each other than with cable operators at the Western Show. The only announced middleware deal came from [...]

Move over Geocast Network Systems and iBlast, there's a third entrant in the race to deliver broadband content through TV signals to PCs or TVs. Dotcast Inc., a Palo Alto, [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Senior cable-industry executives are wrestling with how and when video streaming will become a legitimate part of their business, as evidenced the Cable & Telecommunications Association for [...]

As broadband connections reach close to 5 million homes -- and the first interactive-television applications move beyond the test phase to full-scale deployments -- cable programmers are expanding the scope [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Broadband service providers who gain first entry into the home will have a major advantage over competitors, Cisco Systems Inc. president and CEO John Chambers said at [...]

Competition between direct-broadcast satellite and cable will help fuel interactive TV according to a new report from the Yankee Group. The study suggested that cable would dominate the video-on-demand category [...]

As the cable industry wrestles with hardware, software and content questions related to developing interactive TV, it's become increasingly apparent there is no 'one-size-fits-all' strategy. This is an industry that [...]

Some big names -- BMG Entertainment, Liberty Media Group and Motorola Inc. -- are giving the video-streaming category a boost. BMG announced it would work with Akamai Technologies Inc. and [...]

Two recent announcements have put some momentum behind the portable Internet-access devices that will play a role in tomorrow's broadband home. Gateway 2000 Inc. announced a 'Gateway Connected Touch Pad' [...]

Discovery.com, the online division of Discovery Communications Inc., laid off 40 percent of its 200 employees last week, signaling that the ills besetting the Internet content community have spread to [...]

Have you ever wanted to catch some NBC Olympics coverage or baseball playoff highlights on your work PC? Or maybe you'd like to catch up on e-mails at night in [...]

AT&T's corporate implosion -- in which Ma Bell announced Oct. 25 that it would spin off its broadband division -- will have lasting effects on the cable industry. Turn back [...]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- The Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing kicked off its first Broadband Opportunity Conference here last week against a bewildering conundrum. The good news is that there [...]

ICTV Inc. and StreamSearch have teamed to bring cable operators video-streamed Internet content via 2000 series digital set-tops. Under terms of the alliance announced last week, StreamSearch will create a [...]

Concurrent Computer Corp. will use next month's Western Show to unveil personal-video channel capability for cable operators as part of its video-server product line. The company hopes to try the [...]

Over the past year, Charter Communications Inc. has come to embody the 'wired world' strategy of its visionary owner, Paul Allen. After purchasing a traditional, mainline cable MSO, the Microsoft [...]