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  • TiVo will be offered by Virgin Media in UK later this year

    TiVo will be offered by Virgin Media in UK later this year

    Posted on March 11, 2010 | No Comments
    One of the three points I laid out as TiVo's keys to survival was to partner with more content providers. And just like that, Virigin Media announced it will be offering TiVo set-top boxes to its 3.8 million subscribers sometime this year. This move, along with the Conax partnership, makes TiVo a major player in the European DVR market. See, I told you the company didn't deserve the deathwatch label.

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  • What TiVo needs to do to make the Wall Street boys happy (and survive)

    What TiVo needs to do to make the Wall Street boys happy (and survive)

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    TiVo can't catch a break. The company just rolled out its next-gen platform and then finally ended a long court battle with Dish Network, causing its stock to surge to new heights. This all happened within the last two weeks. But then last night the company announced its sad Q4 2009 financials. You already know the problem. TiVo is having a real tough time signing up new customers and retaining current ones as content providers keep pushing their low-price DVR options. The company only managed to net 46k new subscriptions in the last months of 2009, bringing the total headcount to roughly 2.6 million. That's down from the 4.36 million subs TiVo had in January 2006. TiVo ended up losing $10.2 million during the fourth quarter even though revenue improved 16% to $68.5 million. It's sort of sad, actually. DVRs have lost their magic the last 10 years as cable companies offer cheap alternatives with smaller feature sets and none of the trademark TiVo charm. But TiVo can't die yet. I'm not ready to live in a TiVo-less world. The company must work on these three items in order to survive the next decade.

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  • Things That Can Kill You In the Ocean, Part XII: Sea Drones

    Things That Can Kill You In the Ocean, Part XII: Sea Drones

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    So you’re in a submarine, safe beneath the ocean waves. You’re pretty safe, right? Wrong. Apparently DARPA is working on Sea Drones that will follow ships and subs as they make their way across the briny deep, reporting positions and potentially going boom-boom if they feel like it. It’s all concept right now, but it’s [...]

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  • AT&T’s third quarter earnings come up all roses

    AT&T’s third quarter earnings come up all roses

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments

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    AT&T has come clean with its third quarter earnings today, and on paper, it seems like big ol' Number Two doesn't have much to complain about as far as cash flow goes. EPS comes in at 54 cents, 4 cents more per share than the consensus estimate; revenue was up from the prior quarter (though down a bit from the same quarter a year ago) and they clocked in 2 million net adds, 1.4 million of which were postpaid. That now leaves AT&T with a staggering 81.6 million subs, 6.7 million more than a year ago. Meanwhile, 4.3 million new phones were activated on the network -- 3.2 million of which were iPhones, AT&T's best quarter ever for iPhone activations -- which might actually be perceived as a bad sign for the company seeing how it stresses how heavily reliant it is on Apple's baby for customer conquests. Data continues to be a heavy focus with data-focused revenue up 33.6 percent from the same period last year, and for everyone's sake, we hope that every cent of that revenue is going right back into the network.

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  • Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide

    Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Apparently Comcast is in dire financial straights. If America's largest cable provider doesn't raise the cable modem rental fee to $5 from $3, it will not be able to roll out the faster Internet service, DOCSIS 3.0, and the executives won't be able to get new trousers. Sure, the provider had enough cash to build a massive skyscraper and an impressive HD video wall in Philadelphia, but if you want faster Internet, some folks are going to have to pay more. It's probably a good idea to point out that you can save a lot of money by purchasing your own cable modem.

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  • Verizon passes 2.5 million FiOS subs

    Verizon passes 2.5 million FiOS subs

    Posted on July 27, 2009 | No Comments
    Peter might not be able to pay his FiOS bill, but apparently a lot of folks can. The Verizon fiber optic service now has over 2.5 million subscribers. That puts Verizon above Bright House Networks, but of course way behind the gigantic 25+ million subscriber base of Comcast. Still, that’s not that bad considering that Verizon [...]

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  • Best Buy and TiVo get in bed, HDTVs with built-in TiVos are conceived

    Best Buy and TiVo get in bed, HDTVs with built-in TiVos are conceived

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Best Buy and TiVo have worked out a nice deal. Best Buy is going to heavily push the DVR in all its stores nationwide and TiVo will produce a special Best Buy DVR and embed its DVR platform in a few HDTVs. This isn't official just yet, but it seems like the agreement should help both companies.

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  • Netflix is coming to Sony Bravia HDTVs

    Netflix is coming to Sony Bravia HDTVs

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Soon Netflix subs will be able to watch movies and TV shows instantly on Sony Bravia TVs. This will be enabled on all Internet Video-capable sets this Fall and in previous models via the Internet Video Link Module. Netflix was everywhere in 2008. It worked out deals with Microsoft for the Xbox 360, TiVo, Samsung, [...]

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  • Official: The iPhone 3G S

    Official: The iPhone 3G S

    Posted on June 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Here it is, kiddies: the latest iPhone. Just one year after Apple announced the iPhone 3G, the iPhone 3G S has been announced. There is much to love in this update including larger storage options, a faster CPU, HSDPA support and a better camera all for the same price as the current set. The OS should [...]

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  • No TiVo DirecTV DVR until 2010, sorry

    No TiVo DirecTV DVR until 2010, sorry

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Bad news for DirecTV subs. If you have been waiting, and waiting to upgade your old TiVo Series 2-ish DirecTV DVR, you are going to have to wait a bit longer. It was reveled in the quarterly earnings call that the DVR isn't going to be available this year, rather sometime in 2010.

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