Bundling is lucrative for cable providers, who can charge customers for expanded subscriptions, and is even more lucrative for the owners of cable networks, who can force cable providers to distribute marginal channels by threatening to withhold popular ones.
Yet that is all the more reason for the government to act now and force the cable companies to adopt a different technology.
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.
Matthew Weiner, the creator and driving force of the AMC cable series "Mad Men, " doesn't outwardly resemble the show's main character, the unflappable advertising executive Don Draper.
Once HBO finally breaks from cable subscriptions, it should be a force Netflix will have to reckon with.
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Winfrey, who just launched her own cable network, OWN, is a nonstop force to be reckoned with.
With Bluetooth enabling cable-free wireless chat, the Ear Force XP510 and PX51 headsets allow gamers to take phone calls and stream music easily.
" The force behind the initial-eponymous Oxygen cable channel and O magazine and Web site dismissed the whole affair as "much ado about nothing.
Yes there are methods to manually push the installation files onto handsets, to unlock bootloaders, to force updates by pulling out the ethernet cable at the right time, but that is not the point.
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Mr Cable called for an amendment to legislation currently before Parliament to force such peers and MPs to stand down from Parliament.
The potential competitive advantage for the cable companies has underscored concerns in Verizon's landline work force that the company is marginalizing its landline business in favor of the far more lucrative wireless part of the company, several current and past employees said.
Rats are legendary swimmers, can chew through steel cable and can leap from great heights and survive, but the force of the water gushing through tight spaces may have been just too much for them to handle.
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In reality, the ban on exclusive distribution arrangements between cable operators and cable networks will be lifted, while other protections for rival distributors will remain in force.
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And Sky Angel has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to force Discovery to honor its contract under rules designed to prevent companies affiliated with cable-TV networks from discriminating against competitors.
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Don't force anything out and definitely don't pick the printer up with its threaded black cable, as tempting as that might be.
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