IP Democracy
News of interest of the "absurd" relating to the Internet, cable, telco, wireless, publishing, content and technology businesses.
Author: Cynthia Brumfield is president of Emerging Media Dynamics.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law • Internet Law • Consultant
Recent Posts from IP Democracy
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Eric Schmidt: Open Broadband to Competition
(Washington, DC) Riding high on his visible role as an adviser to the Obama campaign, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke to a packed auditorium in the Ronald Reagan Center here today at an event sponsored…
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Time Warner's Tale of Two Businesses
Media giant Time Warner issued its Q3 08 earnings report this morning (PDF) showing ongoing shrinkage and weakness in its AOL albatross unit but solid performance in its separately traded cable unit, which is soon…
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Comcast's Weak Q3 08 Earnings Report
Top cable operator Comcast issued its Q3 08 earnings report this morning showing relatively healthy financial performance in the face of accelerating core video customer loss and slowing growth in digital telephony, high-speed data and…
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Verizon's FiOS Service Bounces Back
When Verizon issued its Q2 08 earnings report, the statistics for the telco's fiber-to-the-home FiOS initiative were pretty discouraging. A slow-down seemed to have hit both FiOS broadband and TV service -- quarterly subscriber gains…
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Comcast Is Launching Its Wideband Modem Service
As Broadband Reports first revealed, Comcast is officially launching its next-generation, DOCSIS 3.0 wideband modem service in parts of New England, as well as areas of Philadelphia and New Jersey in addition to parts of…
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AT&T: Mobile, U-Verse Posted Strong Gains in Q3 08
Telecom giant AT&T issued its Q3 08 earnings report this morning show a surge in wireless subscribers thanks to its exclusive deal with Apple to sell the iconic iPhone. But those wireless gains ate into…
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Innovation to Dominate Communications Policy Agenda
If there was any question that technological innovation will come to dominate the communications politics and policy agenda over the coming four years, yesterday's news that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be stumping for Obama…
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Skype Continues its Slow and Steady Uptick
Online auction giant eBay issued its Q3 08 earnings results (PDF) today showing a 12% year-over-year rise in revenue to $2.12 billion and a net profit of $492 million, compared to a loss of $936…
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McCain Commercials Still Available on the Web
An interesting intellectual property donnybrook cropped up today after the McCain-Palin campaign released a letter (PDF) it sent to YouTube complaining that its campaign commercials have been pulled from the site after the Google-owned video…
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Telecom Stocks Sink Along with Everything Else
There was a time when telecom providers were relatively insulated from the markets' fluctuations. AT&T, the old Ma Bell that is, was known as the proverbial "widows and orphans" stock because it was so dependably…