Category: Electronic News

By: Jimmy Schaeffler Nov 05 2013 – 09:07am WISP Lite, WISP Classic, and WISP Turbo are three nicknames I recommended to identify the types of video service packages North America’s Wireless Internet Service Providers should be offering their roughly 3 million mostly rural subscribers, as part of a keynote speech I was asked to deliver October 16, in Las Vegas.… Read More

Among the 18 official U.S. cable industry trade groups , the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing trade group, AKA CTAM, is one I hold most dear to my heart. That is, in part, because, for a long time now, it has had a great person at the helm, one who makes people around her want to do business with… Read More

At its core, San Mateo, Calif.-headquartered Google, and its Google TV service, resemble those of almost every other new media/online/Over-The-Top/broadband/streaming video provider I have written about during the past seven months (see, Mixed Signals for a listing of stories about Microsoft, Apple, Vudu, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and Intel). That is, the folks at Google are trying a lot of moves… Read More

By: Jimmy Schaeffler May 24 2013 – 1:28pm Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, in the form of its AppleTV product, remains the Paradigm of Enigmas. That is to say, sadly, what so many people are still thinking today, years after Apple was first expected to revolutionize the TV space, and that is: “While so many other Apple competitors are smartly rounding more… Read More