Sadly, there is still a fair bit of cable-noise while walking around, that is unless you opt for the "sport fit" by wrapping the wires behind your ears.

ENGADGET: Ears-on with Klipsch's latest intra-aural headphone lineup: Image S4 (II) series, X7i

Satellite carriers bit, and now nearly every big cable outfit carries RFD.

FORBES: Media

You can regard all this as laying it on a bit thick - nobody ever mistook Mr Cable for a ray of sunshine - or unvarnished economic realism.

BBC: UK Politics

There's no live programming -- just a database of show episodes and movies that you have your choice of either streaming or downloading for later consumption over 3G or WiFi -- which makes it a little bit like using an on-demand service from your cable company.

ENGADGET: Bitbop hands-on: is this the Hulu of mobile? Hands-on

We experienced this issue with a MacBook Air and Samsung Galaxy Note II -- you can force the flexible cable to twist into the necessary position, but it appears to cause quite a bit of tension, and our ChargeCard was visibly damaged after just a few minutes of use.

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While we're not sold that there's only this single option for pricing broadband (one which heavily favors the provider's bottom lines), the group does bring a tiny bit of thoughtfulness to the discussion, with a member noting that Time Warner Cable's approach hadn't made a very good case for the practice.

ENGADGET: Surprise! The American Cable Association favors tiered broadband pricing

Replying, Mr Cable said the shadow business secretary's claim about rifts in the coalition was "a little bit desperate".

BBC: Cable defends Ebdon appointment

Sure, the broad viewer market is a bit more fragmented now, but 1999 was well into the age of 80 or so cable channels.

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Winfrey's challenge was to reclaim a bit of the cultural spotlight that she once owned before abandoning her syndicated stardom for the cable netherworld.

CNN: A loss for Lance, a win for Oprah