The case involves a cable company, Charter Communications, which used a transaction with two suppliers of set-top boxes to inflate its revenues.

该案件牵涉到一家有线电视公司，查特通讯，它通过与两家置顶盒供应商交易来扩大利益收入。

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Motorola Mobility isn’t just a phone and tablet maker. It also builds television set-top boxes, like the kind you rent from the cable company.

摩托罗拉不仅是手机和平板电脑厂商，同时也生产电视机机顶盒，像你现在从有线电视租来的那种盒子。

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We're intrigued by the potential link-up between Motorola's tablets and its FiOS/cable TV set-top boxes.

我们对于摩托罗拉的平板电脑和其 FiOS/有线电视机顶盒可能存在的关联抱有期待。

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Set-top cable boxes consume about as much energy as a refrigerator over the course of a year.

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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.

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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.

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