Tag archive: Albuquerque

Pegasus Global Holdings has plans to build a 20-square mile city in New Mexico near the Albuquerque-Santa Fe corridor or Las Cruces, but residents of the state won't be allowed to move there. Given the ominous name 'The Center', the city will potentially be able to house up to 35,000 people and will operate as if people are actually living there. The purpose of this project is to create a testing bed for governments, private… Read More

Research and ratings firm Nielsen has unveiled new estimates indicating some 6.5 million U.S. households—or about 5.7 percent of U.S. homes—aren't ready for the digital television transition, scheduled (for the moment!) to take place on February 17, 2009. These numbers are actually an improvement over similar estimates released in December (which indicated from 7.8 million U.S. homes weren't ready for the transition)… Read More

Mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless has flipped the switch on what it surely hopes will be a major new revenue channel as it rolls out high-speed wireless technologies: V Cast Mobile TV, the first commercial mobile television service in the United States. Developed by Qualcom's MediaFlo gorup, the service is available only in a limited number of markets in 20 states and only works with the $199 Samsung SCH-U620 handset, but… Read More

A couple weeks ago, Yahoo announced a time capsule project to capture a digital snapshot of live in 2006. The Internet Time Capsule would accept submissions from Yahoo users all over the world; the data would be compressed and stored for a big unveiling when Yahoo turns 25 years old in the year 2020. Yahoo would feature time capsule submissions on its home pages, and also planned to project selected submissions on the walls of the Pyramid of… Read More

“USDTV, an over-the-air TV subscription service based in Salt Lake City, will begin including the LG components in set-top-boxes planned for shipments beginning the fourth quarter.” “LG's chip advances will make over-the-air digital TV reception easier for millions of viewers, and this is a critical milestone for our company and our broadcast partners,” said Steve Lindsley, chairman and chief executive of U.S.… Read More

Subscribers must buy a $99 set-top box from regional electronic chain stores and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. outlets. They also have to pay a monthly fee of $19.95 — compared with than cable and satellite service bills that range from about $30 to over $100 per month. The company has already launched the service in Salt Lake City, Utah, where it where it is based, with more than 25 channels and plans to debut in Albuquerque, New… Read More

From comScore's press release: comScore's research revealed that San Diego has become the first metropolitan market in which a majority of Internet users connected to the Web through a broadband connection rather than a narrowband service.  Further, the analysis found that among the largest 50 markets, San Diego, Boston and New York led the nation in the usage of broadband connections.   At the national level,… Read More