She noted that Time Warner recently reached an agreement to open its cable TV lines to Juno Online Services.
Meanwhile, efforts to crack open the cable networks had met with mixed success.
City officials acknowledge that the open air cable cars, which ply only eight miles of track, produce a disproportionate amount of accident-related costs.
Not to mention the snow-capped peaks, bell-clad cows and open-air cable cars of Swiss fantasies.
Beyond your cable and open internet feeds, TV Discovery will include Netflix and Blockbuster content at launch.
The fact is it's one of many players in the industry, and the technology has all been built to open standards so that cable vendors can get more choice and better prices.
In addition to the traditional Motorola set-top business, the company offers Google TV, a software platform offered through OEMs via both televisions and after-market set-top boxes, to integrate content from cable and the open Internet.
Ironically, it was concern by AOL that it would be shut out of high-speed, broadband internet services that led it to advocate "open-access" to cable systems - before it decided to buy Time Warner to assure its access to such services.
The U.S. market may one day open up for Narayan if the cable industry settles on a standard for interactive TV, which regulators have said must happen by 2005.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Counties, which represents two-thirds of the nation's counties, passed a motion last week asserting the right of local governments to require cable companies to provide open access.
That effort was shot down by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the court left a door open for ISPs, ruling that cable transmissions had elements of both information and telecommunications services.
He said he had been "exploring" what options were open in terms of government help with Mr Cable.
"The availability of a service like TWC TV on an open platform represents significant milestones for both Time Warner Cable and Roku as well as for the industry overall, " said Anthony Wood, founder and CEO, Roku.
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Simply open the box, plug in the xPrintServer via USB cable, and print wirelessly from any iOS device running iOS version 4.2 or later, to virtually any USB or network-connected printer.
He insists the manifesto group, which draws on contributions from frontbench spokesman like Mr Cable and numerous other policy committees, is still open to new ideas, even at this relatively late stage.
Last week, Kennard rejected a recommendation from the FCC's Local and State Government Advisory Committee to begin an inquiry into complaints about cable companies with an eye towards forcing them to open up their networks.
The Labour MP said he has spoken to Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable about the possibility of securing government help to keep the plant open.
The UK's borders must be "as open as possible" to genuine foreign visitors and business investment, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said.
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Available to broadcasters, cable companies, publishers, content providers and others, TVSync's open API leverages the best video and audio ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) technology of the industry leader Vobile to facilitate exciting new applications that synchronize, in real time, to the content a user is consuming.
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Some cable firms will succumb to Microsoft's pitch, but most prefer an open standard, possibly based on the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems.
The report also contained some controversial recommendations: It asks all broadcast and cable networks to refrain from projecting the outcome of presidential voting in any state while polls remain open anywhere in the contiguous 48 states.
Unlike the previous two mediums, this particular one is home to a plethora of rivals including Bright House Networks, Cox Communications, Mediacom, Time Warner Cable (Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family), Comcast, Wide Open West, RCN, SuddenLink and Charter -- and we're just getting warmed up.
Happily, even if you've got a cable plugged in, you can snap the flap shut, so that it won't hang open awkwardly.
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