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Regulators have signed off on the Megapath-Covad-Speakeasy merger, the companies announced yesterday. Aiming to be an end-to-end “next-generation Managed Services Local Exchange Carrier,” the merged entity, under the Megapath name, can boast of having more than ...

The business of providing digital home multimedia, cross-platform products, services and support to broadband service providers is a dynamic and growing one.  Motorola yesterday announced the introduction of the Motorola EDGE Service Assurance Software suite, a set of customer care applications for home networks that it will sell directly to broadband carriers....

Two million smart grid meters have been installed across the U.S., thanks in no small part to the $3+ billion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding allocated to smart grid development and deployment.  More than 180,000 ...

Manufacturers and major retailers are excited about the market outlook for connected TVs, but there's still a wide gap to bridge when it comes to arousing consumer interest, according to Forrester Research's James L. McQuivey. In their research report, "...

The Red Cross has published a study which examines the use of social media in emergencies.  Nearly 75% of survey respondents participate in at least one online community or social network, Facebook, with 58% of respondents, far ...

Netflix launched an iPhone and iPod Touch app today that enables customers to watch streaming movies and TV episodes.  Netflix customers subscribing to plans starting at $8.99 per month will have access to "a broad array of movie and TV ...

African- and Hispanic-Americans talk and text the most, women talk on their cellphones more than men, teens, by far, text more than any other group, and residents of the South talk more on their cellphones than people in other regions of the US.  All this ...

The outlook for "no-new-wires" technology, such as HomePlug, HomePNA and MoCA, is on the upswing given the rise of HDTV, IPTV and home networks, but competing standards may muddy the waters for consumers and providers alike, according to a new studay by IMS Research. "The medium-term future for ‘no-new-wire’ technologies is still ...

TR-069 is a standard developed by the Broadband Forum that allows the remote management and configuration of a broadband modem. It was once the domain of DSL modems. But developments like the recent one from Clear Access now extend the capability to cable ...

Fiber-to-the-Home is steadily winning the hearts and minds of subscribers in the US, according to a new report commissioned by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council in which more than 1,000 FTTH and 600 other broadband subscribers were surveyed. Fiber-to-the-home services were available to more than ...