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Cable: Natural born monopoly?

The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...

Tags: verizon communications inc., broadband, at&t corp., ma bell, satellite, moffett, broadband growth, cost reduction effort, network technology, cable, broadband internet, telecommunications, networking, personal technology, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11

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Wireless: Examining the race to the bottom

The wireless industry is facing quite a conundrum: Subscriber growth is faster than the relatively pokey video business, but revenue per subscriber is falling. Toss in the movement by Apple, Google and others to make wireless carriers mere dumb pipes and there's turbulence ahead. ...

Tags: Industry, Video, Cable, Wireless, Wireless Industry, Craig Moffett, Tracfone, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-24

Jobs: Catch the App Store if you can

Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a simple message for all the App Store rivals trying to emulate the iPhone maker's model: Good luck catching us. Apple marked the first birthday of its App Store and noted the following about what is becoming a business model moat in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Wireless, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'that's like SAP "wrecked" outsourcing...while I agree the govt inquiry may come to nothing, Moffat's argument is ingenious. By agreeing to a locked SIM, allowing AT&T to continue to play games with 3rd party apps like Skype...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple Inc., wireless business, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

The Feds have been examining exclusive wireless carrier deals with handset makers---think AT&T and Apple---but the effort is a bit of a farce. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says it's laughable that the wireless industry is anticompetitive and the Feds don't have to worry about wrecking the wireless industry---Apple already has....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, Handset, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Customer Loyalty, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)

Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...

Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?

Wireless data providers--notably AT&T and Verizon--have capped their wireless data plans at 5GB per month. In the billing statements that cap is pretty clear, but the ramifications of exceeding them aren't as obvious. In a research note dubbed “Free” Just Ain’t What it Used to Be, the...

Tags: Network, Video, Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Craig Moffett, Wayne Burdick, Definition Movie, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Web video isn't killing cable subs...yet

To hear the prognosticators and media tell it, cable subscriptions are being supplanted for video services like Hulu. A recession, free Web video and cable costs add up big problems for cable providers. The reality may be very different, says Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. ...

Tags: Internet Video, Video, Craig Moffett, Cable, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Cable Might Try To Kill TV. It Would Not Be Suicide.

Cable operators have a love-hate relationship with TV. Giving Americans scores of TV channels,where they once had just three or four, built them into the telecommunications giants that they are today. But now, the TV business is the least profitable of the three legs they stand on....

Tags: Cable, CMCSA, VZ, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors

Windows 7 to scale to 256 processorsMassively parallel architectures...There are more problems to solve besides dispatching. With a large number of processors, you will run into latency problems accessing memory as physical memory gets further away from a particular processor. Multiple queues and thread affinity to processors will...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, processor, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

What's good for satellite radio isn't necessarily good for satellite TV - yet.

Now that the FCC has given its blessing to the merger of the nation's two satellite radio companies, it was only a matter of time before the question of a merger between their satellite TV cousins - DirecTV and DISH Network - popped up. Senior analyst Craig Moffett at Sanford...

Tags: Merger, Radio, Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, TVs, Satellite Radio, Tv & Home Theater, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Google To Get A Lesson in Security, From the Pros

Having just read that Google is taking up residence at Moffett Field, a storied air base in Mountain View that is home to NASA's Ames Research Center, among others, I realized there's a great opportunity for Google to learn a little about high end security, at least the kind that...

Tags: Google Inc., Security, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?

For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...

Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-16

News to know: AMD vs Intel; GoogleDrive.com; Microsoft search tweaks

Notable headlines: George Ou: AMD: Is closing the quad-core deficit enough? Paul Murphy: Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2. Garett Rogers: Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers. Review:  Logitech VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse. Harry Fuller: IBM:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Hypervisor, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Cablevision could air 500 HD channels by year-end

Cablevision could air 500 HD channels by year-endHmmmm. Yawn.Based on the lack of response, it seems not many ZDNet readers care. I quit caring about television a few years ago.However, it's nice to know that the television I don't watch will now be available in HD so I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cablevision Systems Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

Images beamed to Earth from space

See footage from cameras attached to space shuttlesPasadena, Calif.-based Ecliptic Enterprises builds cameras that are attached to rockets and space shuttles. See amazing footage from some of the cameras and hear from the company's CEO, speaking to CNET News.com's Zamir Haider during the NASA Technology Showcase held Tuesday at Moffett...

Tags: camera

Videos 2007-04-26

NASA's rave

NASA's party brings artists and scientists togetherThe Yuri's Night dance party at NASA's Moffett Field in Silicon Valley feted the 40th anniversary of the first man in space.

Tags: NASA

Videos 2007-04-23

Terminal Server, Networked Apps Help NASA Cut TCO

NASA's Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, Calif.) holds the agency's Center of Excellence for Information Technology CEIT. With some 4,000 civil servants and contractors working in a mixed PC/Mac/UNIX computing environment, deploying basic productivity applications such as Microsoft Office requires some users to keep multiple desktop machines. As a result,...

Tags: NASA, Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, Server, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Servant, Roi/Tco, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2007-01-01

NASA to reveal major Google announcement Monday

NASA to reveal major Google announcement MondayTax evasionThere has been talk for quite a while about Google moving a large portion of its operations onto Moffett Field, where Ames is located. They are doing this under the guise of working with NASA, but it seems that the major motivation is...

Tags: NASA, Space Act agreement, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-12-16

NASA's 20-G centrifuge machine

Scientists from NASA and two U.S. universities are using a 20-G centrifuge machine that can simulate up to 20 times the terrestrial gravity to evaluate the effects of hypergravity on humans. This 58-foot diameter centrifuge has three cabins, one for humans -- limited to 12.5 G -- and two for...

Tags: cab, gravity

Blog posts 2006-04-29