When Malone arrived, TCI was a top-10 cable operator, with 400, 000 subscribers.
Set-top boxes allow cable-TV subscribers to surf the Internet from their sofas.
Fox News has been top-rated cable news network for seven years.
He writes virtually every show himself and has kept it interesting, maintaining his status as the top-rated cable anchor for more than a decade, he said.
The Arab royal-family-owned network will be entering a tumultuous, fragmented marketplace for news programming where the top-ranked cable news shows garner ratings only in the hundreds of thousands at any one time, not millions, analysts said.
The TV Everywhere rights for the networks of NBCUniversal are part of a broader agreement for Verizon FiOS TV customers, which also includes the full suite of top-rated cable networks from NBCUniversal: USA, Bravo Media, cloo, Chiller, CNBC, E!
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The idea is to have base stations everywhere beaming Net connections at 2.4 megabits per second--faster than top cable modem speeds--so that people can be connected no matter if they are in the street, in a car or at a restaurant.
Set-top cable boxes consume about as much energy as a refrigerator over the course of a year.
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Kevin Hause, who tracks interactive business for IDC, thinks that it is too soon to say whether Sun will be able to dominate the cable set-top box market, as cable operators are hedging their bets on various operating systems.
According to the site TV By The Numbers, it ranked as the top-rated original cable series on Thursday nights among viewers 12 to 34, and pulled in an average of 3 million total viewers per episode since its premiere in January.
In addition to an audience of some 4 million viewers tuning into the Viacom-owned cable network, the top-rated docudrama has made stars out of its cast.
In addition to an audience of some 4 million viewers tuning into the Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people )-owned cable network, the top-rated docudrama has made stars out of its cast.
Neither company's effort has done anything to shake the shared stronghold of Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific Atlantic (nyse: SFA - news - people ) on the cable set-top box industry.
Bill Gates has a long history of making investments in cable companies with the hopes that it will secure Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) software a significant role in the technology used for high-speed Internet access and for cable set-top boxes that deliver interactive TV.
Traditionally, service providers used devices like set-top boxes with cable cards that allowed them to ensure only paying subscribers were receiving the content and that it was protected.
In fact, Ballmer is working to persuade the big pay-TV players--Comcast and Verizon are already Xbox partners--to allow their customers the choice of an Xbox over a cable set-top.
Yes, there was more on display, but we've decided to spare you the sight of every walkie-talkie, cable modem, set-top box and cellphone in Moto's lineup.
Now, for the first time, Allen is competing directly with Gates for the same business: set-top-box software that lets cable companies offer digital video recording, video on demand and, eventually, shopping.
Using data gleaned from public profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Miso and Get Glue- Trendrr is ranking the volume of buzz and social actions (check-ins, tweets, posts) for terms associated with TV shows- a top ten for cable and broadcast.
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Clumsy tech and weak content (I'll get to that later) is why home media streaming hasn't taken off as much as we would all like and why most of us, myself included, still have old-fashioned set-top boxes from the cable company.
The living room TV experience can now be extended to a second or third TV and even remotely to a TV outside of your home using SlingPlayer on a NeoTV, without having to lease additional set-top boxes from your cable or satellite service provider.
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Silverman's two-year tenure, while Gaspin's entertainment cable empire--including top-rated USA Network, Bravo, Oxygen and Sci Fi--has seen ratings and revenue soar.
For example, there are industry standards for measuring energy usage in TVs and cable set-top boxes.
Remember those rumors that the networking giant was shopping around its Scientific Atlanta cable set-top box business?
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One half, Motorola Mobility, got the cellphone and cable set-top box units and ex- Qualcomm exec Sanjay Jha as CEO.
Only now are recording abilities beginning to show up in cable set-top boxes.
If it's something in the living room, like your cable set-top box or stereo, Microsoft could be in trouble.
Write it down: this may have been the day that the cable set-top box business came down with a terminal disease.
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Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta may be guilty of the most bizarre power button behavior for its digital video recorder distributed by TimeWarner Cable.
The tool is to radio what cable set-top technology is to television, said David Frerichs, Sonicbox's co-founder, chief technical officer and vice president of marketing.
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