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An easier way to get web content onto your TV

Do you want to get free and cheap web programming from your computer over to your TV screen? This device makes it easy for you.

• 12:00 a.m. Monday, May 21, 2012
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Ooma named best home phone service again

The way you bring technology into your home for communication and entertainment is changing. If you follow the trends, you can save big money. Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, just reported huge profits of $1.2 billion over just 90 days at a time when they're actually losing pay TV ...

• 1:49 p.m. Thursday, May 3, 2012

Traditional TV viewership in decline

With traditional television viewership in decline, the TV industry needs to embrace the new ways people want to get content instead of fighting against it. The New York Times reports audience numbers are way down for the major networks. Over a recent four-week span, ABC viewership was down 21%, Fox ...

• 2:10 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012
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Roku makes Internet programming on your TV a cinch

Many of us are cutting the cord to pay TV. I've got some ideas for you to make it easy to watch free or cheap programming on your TV using your Internet connection. Today, roughly four in 10 of us have an Internet-connected TV. As a result, the number of ...

• 1:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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Best Buy to close stores

Will Best Buy follow Circuit City into oblivion now that they're poised to close a fair number of stores? When Circuit City bit the dust, retail analysts went into overdrive predicting that Best Buy would become the unchallenged king of the hill in the world of electronics retailing. But then ...

• 1:58 p.m. Thursday, March 29, 2012

$35 TV Economy package being tested in markets

What would it take to get you to be a dedicated pay TV customer in an age when more people are slowly starting to think about cutting the cord? Cox Communications is testing a $35 cable TV package in selected markets like New England, Virginia, Louisiana and parts of California. ...

• 2:22 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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More Americans cutting the pay TV cord

Have you cut the cord from pay TV yet? There's increasingly more action on that front than you might think. The latest numbers from Nielsen indicate that 5.1 million households are getting over-the-air reception and supplementing it with Internet-delivered pay programming. That trend is up by roughly 25%, according to ...

• 1:21 p.m. Monday, March 12, 2012
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Local network TV is coming anytime, anywhere, on any device

A new startup from the founder of Fox TV promises an affordable way to take your local broadcast TV on the go. Aereo is a company being launched by Barry Diller next month in the New York metro area. For $12/month, Aereo subscribers will be able to stream ABC, CBS, ...

• 1:28 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

AT&T throttling speeds for unlimited data customers

AT&T continues to tarnish its reputation with deception, arrogance, carelessness toward customers and incompetent customer-no-service. Who's running this ship into the ground? AT&T recently did away with unlimited data plans for new customers. And then they decided to start playing games with the existing customers who were still grandfathered into ...

• 5:07 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012
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Redbox and Verizon launching Netflix competitor

MONEY-SAVING MOMENT: Redbox is at the center of some big changes that will impact how you get TV or movies. Redbox has long battled Blockbuster Express (BE) for control of the DVD rental market. While Redbox caps its rental prices at $1.20/night, BE unsuccessfully experimented with a graduated pricing system ...

• 1:43 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012
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