IPTV standards effort moves ahead 

By Sarah Reedy

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) begins work this week on the next phase of its efforts to establish global standards for IPTV, hoping to increase simplification and integration for IPTV manufacturers, service providers and consumers...

Qwest charts different video course 

By Carol Wilson

While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...

CES: Digital home on display  

By Sarah Reedy

Microsoft wasn’t the only company at the Consumer Electronics Show that prominently featured the connected home. In Las Vegas this week, the digital or connected home was on display widely, and new levels of simplicity, connectivity and convergence were the focus of many companies’ announcements and plans. ...

CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3 

By Kevin Fitchard

If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...

CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds apps  

By Sarah Reedy

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers...

Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player 

By Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy

Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...

Bridgewater talks about its IPO 

By Tim McElligott

It has been a while since software start-ups in the telecom industry had the confidence in the market and themselves to launch an initial public offering. But as Tyler Nelson, vice president of marketing for Bridgewater, said of his 10-year-old company: We are no start-up. On Dec. 14, the company closed its IPO at $5.50 per share. The company had been hoping for more, but it’s done, it was successful and it is time to move forward. So far, they’re down a dime, but raised $20 million. Nelson spoke with Telephony’s Tim McElligott about the IPO and what comes next...

Content, quality, convergence drive IPTV  

By Sarah Reedy

Telephony Associate Editor Sarah Reedy spoke to Ervin Leibovici, chief executive officer of content delivery provider BitBand, to get his perspective on the trends that will drive IPTV in 2008...

Qwest not taking IPTV bait 

By Carol Wilson

Qwest Communications will invest an extra $300 million in capital to build fiber-to-the-node networks to reach 1.5 million homes in 20 markets but is not planning to deliver IPTV service over those networks, Qwest Chairman and CEO Ed Mueller told the investment community today...

On-demand ad market untapped (for now) 

By Sarah Reedy

New advances in dynamic ad insertion for video-on-demand (VOD) services will be a key driver of the $6 billion in VOD revenue awaiting U.S. multichannel service providers over the next five years, according to research released by SNL Kagan....

Survey calls for customer experience overhaul 

By Sarah Reedy

When Forrester Research asked nearly 5,000 consumers about their interactions with a variety of companies to gauge the usefulness, usability, and enjoyability of their experiences, wireless carriers kept coming up short...

AT&T CEO looks ahead to the new year  

By Carol Wilson

AT&T is seeing unprecedented growth in bandwidth demand and has transformed itself to capitalize on that trend with a seamless, IP-based global network, the company’s chairman and Chief Executive Officer told the AT&T Investor Day audience this morning...

AT&T hits 40Gig coast to coast 

By Carol Wilson

AT&T today said it has expanded to 40 Gb/s capacity on more than 50,000 miles of its IP/MPLS national network, as part of the latest push to meet growing demand for online video and other IP-based traffic...

Blowtorch hopes to catch fire 

Blowtorch Entertainment came on the scene this fall armed with more than $50 million in initial funding and a goal to create a media company for a young-adult audience...

Special Report: Telephony's Best and Worst of 2007 

We spent 2007 writing about the news and talking to news-makers. Now Telephony's editors tell you their highlights -- and lowlights -- of the year that was...

LTE--It’s not just VZW’s network, it’s Verizon’s 

By Kevin Fitchard

Throughout its short history, Verizon Communications has kept its wireline business separated from its wireless business. Last week, however, when the companies announced their plans with Vodafone to jointly pursue Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a next-generation network technology, the name on the press release didn’t have a ‘Wireless’ tacked to its end...

Motorola executive flight continues with CTO 

By Kevin Fitchard

Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior has followed CEO Ed Zander out the door...

IP Prime readies MPEG-2 networks for ‘HD tsunami’ 

By Sarah Reedy

IP Prime developer SES Americom today announced the general availability of its MPEG-4 high-definition television service, the IP-Prime HD-4...

All I want for Christmas is Xbox 360 Live  

By Sarah Reedy

AT CES last year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told attendees to expect the integration of Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Xbox Live with its Microsoft IPTV platform to come to the market by Christmas 2007. With December right around the corner, eager Xbox fans have yet to see the online social community move into their living rooms...

Targeted advertising could offer new value 

By Sarah Reedy

The traditional model of advertising is slowly beginning to give way to addressable ads that viewers want to see...

HD showdown 

By Sarah Reedy

With the holidays approaching, high-definition television sets will top many consumer wish lists, bringing the total of HDTV-owning households to more than 30 million...

WebsEdge pools interests for IPTV content 

By Carol Wilson

A U.K. company is putting a new twist on community television, bringing it into the IP and IPTV worlds as it does so. WebsEdge is a content provider that targets both communities of interest and local communities in creating specialized content that can be delivered over the Internet and over IPTV systems. ...

IBM: Security linked to NGN rollouts 

By Tim McElligott

Bolstered by the frame-of-reference to a previous survey, IBM said today that carriers around the world are starting to see security for IP-based services less as a hindrance to service rollout and more as an opportunity to provide security services to its customer base. They just don’t all have a plan for how to realize it...

Introducing the world to WooMe 

By Sarah Reedy

San-Francisco startup WooMe publicly launched its U.S. and U.K.-based online introduction service yesterday, with the tagline, “WooMe is introducing the world, one person at a time"...

Eagle Broadband enters Chapter 11 

By Ed Gubbins

Eagle Broadband entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday as its former chairman submitted an asset seizure order to its primary bank...