Comcast will start serving two dense and popular Seattle neighborhoods for the first time Aug. 18. The company’s internet and cable services will become available for residents of First Hill… Read More
YouTube unveiled a new live TV service on Tuesday, setting up another major threat to cable and satellite companies. This service, launching this spring, will offer a bundle of more than… Read More
Sling TV and Comcast are joining forces. The on-demand and live TV service, which has helped many people ditch Comcast, will soon be integrated into the telecom giant’s Xfinity cable platform.… Read More
Live streams of television, and most importantly live streams of sports, always seemed like a bit of a pipe dream a decade ago, before the concept of cutting the cord… Read More
Say goodbye to the days of waiting hours around the house for the cable technician to show up at an uncertain moment. Time Warner Cable is rolling out a new… Read More
If you ask many people in their 20s how they watch TV, there’s a good chance they won’t say cable. About one in five young adults have “cut the cord” with… Read More
Amazon has quietly rolled out the Amazon Cable Store in a bid to make cable TV, internet and home phone service much easier to compare and buy. Right now, the only cable… Read More
A growing number of Comcast customers, whose data use surpasses the arbitrary limits set by the cable company, are getting hit with added charges. According to a story Thursday from… Read More
Is there a way to beat gotcha artists at their own game? To make money off those who make money by tricking consumers? Two brothers in Tennessee may have figured… Read More
If you make money charging people for TV access, here’s the latest set of scary numbers. A new Pew Research Center report has found that one out of five young… Read More
Get ready for your home Internet to feel like your smartphone — bound by data caps, a large overage fee waiting to happen. Comcast gave some users the bad news Thursday… Read More
Television packages are increasingly looking less like a Happy Meal and more like, “Would you like fries with that?” Verizon confirmed today that it will offer its FiOS customers the ability… Read More
Here’s a great New Year’s resolution for you: Stop donating money to cable companies. Because I promise you, their resolution is to take more money from you. Cable will keep… Read More
The City of Seattle is getting ready to renegotiate its franchise contract with Comcast, the largest cable TV and high-speed Internet provider in town. So in preparation of the expiration… Read More
If you’re a Time Warner Cable customer and an Xbox Live Gold member, lots of live TV is coming to your Xbox later this summer. Microsoft announced a new partnership with… Read More
I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of WaveDivision Holdings until this week when a longtime Seattle area PR veteran reached out to me about the Kirkland company with this pitch.… Read More
Shares of Clearwire slumped more than eight percent today after Time Warner Cable announced plans to sell its stake in the Bellevue broadband wireless provider. The Associated Press reports that Time Warner… Read More
Comcast this week is rolling out a new video streaming service called Streampix, an offering that will be available only to subscribers of the giant cable company. The offering, which… Read More
“Having at least one area where we can do integrated hardware and software and learn from that probably produces better products.” – Google’s Eric Schmidt, speaking about the company’s Motorola… Read More
Do you really need download speeds of more than 100 megabits per second in your house? (Come on, really?) At any rate, if the answer is truly yes, Comcast has… Read More
You can tune into CNN, MSNBC, Northwest Cable News or any number of cable channels for the latest news on the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan. But if you… Read More