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WBA Wi-Fi Global Congress
26th -28th June — Seoul, Korea
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June 13-15 — City View, Metreon, San Fran
FREE WEBINAR - RCS-E: OPERATOR STRATEGIES FOR NEXT-GENERATION MESSAGING
June 6 - 3pm BST/ 10am EST
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AT&T puts U-verse TV on Xbox on indefinite hiatus

Hoping to use an Xbox to access AT&T's (NYSE: T) U-verse TV? You may be in for a bit of a wait, as the telco has pulled the hardware kit that allowed users to use the game console as a "spare" Read more >>

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Live TV is dying, advertisers likely to spend $9B anyway

May 15, 2012 — 11:15am ET | By Jim O'Neill

With DVR penetration nearing 50 percent of American households, and with the majority of homes already watching video on demand, Americans are slowly moving away from a former mainstay of television Read more >>

AT&T launches U-verse TV and Internet service in Ottawa, Kan.

May 14, 2012 — 6:26pm ET | By Jim O'Neill

AT&T (NYSE: T) U-verse Internet and U-verse TV are now available in Ottawa, Kan., continuing the telco's expansion in the Sunflower State. The company said the service now passes more than Read more >>

Ensequence gets $26M in latest funding round

May 14, 2012 — 1:54pm ET | By Jim O'Neill

The concept of smart TVs and their potential to connect with consumers has been fueling venture capital investment in the space of late, especially in the area of app development. The latest company Read more >>

Elemental lands Columbus Communications for video play in LatAm, Caribbean

May 14, 2012 — 11:06am ET | By Jim O'Neill

Transcoding vendor Elemental Technologies, which last year added Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) and Avail-TVN to its customer roster, today said it would power Columbus' multiscreen video roll out in Latin Read more >>

SeaChange wraps up spinoff of broadcast server, storage unit

May 11, 2012 — 6:42am ET | By Jim O'Neill

Video-on-demand software specialist SeaChange International (Nasdaq: SEAC) said it has closed the sale of its broadcast server and storage business to XOR Media, completing its first major step Read more >>

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> CenturyLink Inc. reported its first-quarter 2012 earnings slid 5.2 percent, beating Wall Street analysts' expectations for the nation's fourth-largest telecom company. Article

> Harmonic has rolled out a new iteration of its video-quality monitoring and analytics software suite. Article

> Netflix has signed a multiyear licensing deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution that will expand its nascent streaming offering in Latin America. Article

> Google's YouTube is talking with content providers about possibly adding a tier to the popular website that would put premium content behind a pay wall. Article

> Content delivery network EdgeCast Networks has launched its OpenCDN federation platform, allowing network operators to cache customer content in markets and regions where they have no infrastructure. Article

> Envivio announced it will release its financial results for the first quarter ended April 30, after the market closes May 30. Release

> Broadcasters ask judge to block Aereo. Article

> Univision Communications and AT&T U-verse have reached a multiyear, multiplatform deal that includes carriage of the U.S. Spanish-language media leader's three new cable networks, as well as authenticated access across an array of vehicles. Article

> Sinclair Broadcast Group has entered into a long-term affiliation agreement with Fox Network, and has obtained an option to acquire Fox-owned WUTB Baltimore, a MyNetworkTV (MNT) affiliate in Sinclair's home market. Article

And finally... In another example of Social Darwinism at work, two men who allegedly robbed an Internet café at gunpoint were caught after one forgot to log out of Facebook. Article

Editor's Corner

Are consumers happy with their pay-TV services? Survey says… No

Shoot a 66 at the golf course and your buddies are likely to give you a hard time for scoring so well (and, possibly offer to bankroll you on your way to the PGA). But score a 66 out of 100 on a Read more >>

Special Report

IPTV in the first quarter of 2012

How did the IPTV industry perform in the first quarter of 2012? Check here throughout the Q1 earnings season for news on the key players in IP television, IPTV deployments, Triple Play, Quadruple play, Set-top box, IP multimedia subsystems (IMS) and IP video.