- Tuning out.
In the past five years, adults have cut back on the amount of time they listen to the radio by an average of 20 minutes a day. R&R cites Media Audit figures that show the largest decline in listening among ......
- Kidnapper foiled.
Last August, Monique Williams of Syracuse, New York, was driving down a city street when she saw a young girl get into a car with a male driver. Because the man had obviously been following the girl in his car, ......
- Time to look beyond 'baseball bundles'.
"Baseball," as the old Saturday Night Live skit might have put it, "has been very, very good to us." The all-American sport popularized by Abner Doubleday has supplied the industry with a handy marketing hook applicable to bundling multiple communications ......
- The big get bigger--or do they?
The recent consolidation trend among major U.S. telcos is but the leading edge of a wave that will continue over the next few years. Tier-one players see consolidation not only as a way to lower costs by combining operations, but ......
- AN to present online VoIP event.
America's Network will present on Feb. 17 the first in a series of online events highlighting developments in the booming VoIP sector. Virtual VoIP Expo will be keynoted by Gerald Cambell, senior vice president, voice services, Time Warner Cable. Additional ......
- Leapfrog Online Adds Exec.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-24 April 2008-Leapfrog Online Adds Exec(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Leapfrog Online has announced the addition of Michael Leff to its management team as VP/GM, Telecommunications. In this new role, Michael will lead the team of professionals serving Clients ......
- Telecom customers grow grumpier.
It's tough to keep the customer satisfied. That seems to be a main conclusion of a recent J.D. Power and Associates report about the telecom market. The company that built its reputation on measuring customer satisfaction found there's precious little ......
- TelCom Center monument to Jackson's renaissance.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Downtown Jackson's Mississippi Telecommunications & Conference Center is a modern architecture marvel. Located on Farish Street, the TelCom Center, which opened in January 2007, recently received awards from the Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and ......
- Microsoft Takes a Second Crack at iTV.
By Kevin Murphy Microsoft Corp yesterday announced trials of its new interactive TV software with two major US cable companies, the first major indication of progress following its first abortive attempt to enter the iTV market. The company said that ......
- Harmonic and Partners Win Emmy for Achievement in Broadband and Personal Television.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-17 January 2007-Harmonic and Partners Win Emmy for Achievement in Broadband and Personal Television(C)2007 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Harmonic announced that Time Warner Cable and Harmonic, in conjunction with other partners, have jointly won the Science, Technology and Engineering ......
- 3rd party custodian seen to shift service to CTFs.
Byline: FIL C. SIONIL The strict implementation of the third-party custodian that governs the buy and sell of government securities and other tradeable debt instruments, this year could set off a shift in service to common trust funds (CTFs). Those ......
- Alarming VoIP.
Heavyweights from several cable companies, including Time Warner Cable senior vice president Gerald Campbell, sat down with representatives of the alarm industry in a meeting at CableLabs headquarters in Denver last month to discuss incompatibilities between VoIP and alarm systems....
- Housing agency plans to create finance firm.
Byline: ANA MARIE MACUJA Government-owned National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. (NHMFC) has established a holding company as part of its plans to create a finance company it would jointly own with Deutsche Bank AG of Germany. NHMFC said it would ......
- Linking east-west schools via telecomputing.
From IGC: PeaceNet, <edu.eastwest> Dear friends, I am a teacher of middle and high level English from Moscow and am greatly interested in telecommunications in education. Should there be anybody with the same interest I would be glad to correspond......
- Broadly Speaking.
This month we speak to Sue Breckinridge, the Vice President of Public Affairs for the Time Warner Cable Charlotte Division. She's been in the industry since 1991. The Charlotte Division of TWC has won 5 national industry awards and 3 ......
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