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DC Entertainment is using its stable of popular fictional superheroes to fight the real world hunger crises in the Horn of Africa. The company has announced a two year, multi-milllion-dollar giving campaign called “We Can Be Heroes,” which uses Superman and the rest of the globally-known Justice League as central icons in the call to action. Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Batman, Cyborg and of course Superman, all pose in front of… Read More

Number-three mobile operator Sprint has filed separate lawsuits against Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Cable One, alleging the companies violate a dozen Sprint patents related to digital phone technology. The patents in the suits date back to the 1990s, and some of them are the same patents that Sprint used back in 2007 to extract an $80 million settlement from Vonage over its VoIP operations. In all the complaints, Sprint says… Read More

Reported first by Reuters today, Verizon Communications is preparing a streaming service that will offer movies and television shows to customers that don't have access or currently subscribe to Verizon FiOS. While no pricing has been released for the proposed streaming package, the source told Reuters that the service would potentially launch during 2012. The programming would be limited to a couple packages of movies similar to the… Read More

Verizon Wireless has purchased 122 spectrum licenses from a number of cable companies as it aims to bolster and expand its 4G LTE network, the company announced today. The licenses come from Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, and were purchased for $3.6 billion in total. The purchase is actually for shares of the company SpectrumCo, of which the cable giants each own a chunk. Comcast is selling its 63.6 percent share for $2.3… Read More

On Thursday of this week, Starz President Chris Albrecht announced plans to create and launch a digital platform for distributing Starz content very similar to the HBO GO application created by HBO. The application will work on a variety of platforms and may require an existing subscription to the Starz network through a cable or satellite company. However, Albrecht also indicated that the company was exploring the option of providing Starz to… Read More

If your Internet connection just cut out for about 30 seconds, you're not alone. At about 9:30am ET, Time Warner cable announced on Twitter that it had experienced an Internet outage that has affected most of the service provider's areas across the country. As of July, Time Warner had more than 9.7 million residential high-speed Internet customers. That number doesn't include the countless workers affected by the outage, only… Read More

DirecTV has seen sizable growth in the third quarter of this year likely attributed to the extremely popular NFL Sunday Ticket package that's exclusive to the satellite TV service. DirecTV added 327,000 subscribers during the months of July, August and September. This nearly doubles the amount of subscribers added during the third quarter of 2010. Adversely, competitors like Time Warner and Comcast posted losses of video subscribers… Read More

Most people have a long list of things they'd rather not deal with — and many people would put cable companies near the top. Yet, thanks to local utility monopolies and the paucity of over-air broadcast service in many areas of the United States, cable companies occupy center stage in many Americans' lives. Sure, satellite operators have offered alternatives for years, but as broadband has become more ubiquitous in the United… Read More

Announced in a third quarter earning report earlier today, Comcast informed investors that the company lost approximately 165,000 cable subscribers between the months of July through September of 2011. While cable subscribers continue to remain the most profitable portion of Comcast business, more consumers are dropping cable service for alternative options including over-the-air channels and set-top boxes like the Roku. The average Comcast… Read More

Announced last week, NBC brought an update to its iPad application which allows users to watch ad-supported episodes of 28 popular NBC shows including The Office, Community, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, America's Got Talent, Chuck, 30 Rock and The Biggest Loser. Oddly, this eliminates a reason for iPad owners to subscribe to Hulu Plus, the streaming video company that's partly owned by NBCUniversal and currently up for sale to the… Read More

When you're in the business of fighting major corporations, it's important to not help their bottom line in the process. Unfortunately for hacktivist group Anonymous, whose corporate targets include Master Card, Visa, PayPal and others, they seem to be doing just that — at least a little bit. The conflict of interest for Anonymous stems from the group's mascot, Guy Fawkes, the 17th Century disestablishmentarian, who… Read More

Sprint may be hatching a long term plan with cable companies to invest in and possibly acquire Clearwire, sources tell Bloomberg. The reason is 4G LTE. The cable companies and Sprint want it and Clearwire has a plan to make it happen, but it needs funding. Clearwire, which offers wireless internet service in most major metropolitan areas, has already committed to spending $600 million to upgrade its network from WiMax to LTE, but it will need… Read More

Cable operator Time Warner and Viacom Inc. have agreed to put their lawsuits against each other on hold while they try to reach an agreement over what programming Time Warner can offer to its cable subscribers via an iPad application, according to a court filing. The companies originally sued each other back in April over Time Warner offering its cable subscribers access to Viacom programming on an iPad app. Viacom—along with Discovery and News… Read More

In a bold attempt to compete with Netflix, Deadline reports that Time Warner may use its newly purchased Flixter brand to start a cloud-based movie service. Chief among its assets will be the ability to let customers to upload their DVD collections to the cloud. Consumers will be able to “upload your existing physical DVDs, have the ability to access them across multiple devices anywhere you want, have the ability to manage your… Read More

Media behemoths Time Warner Cable and Viacom Inc have filed lawsuits against each other over an iPad app that allows users to stream live TV, the Associated Press reports. The companies have asked a New York judge to decide whether Time Warner has the right to distribute channels on its cable network via the Apple tablet, rather than through a traditional TV set, without negotiating additional deals with the cable networks. Time Warner was… Read More