Cable Service to Jump $3 a Month: ; Suddenlink Official Says Rise Due to Labor, Fuel Costs, Not the Change in Ownership
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By MATTHEW THOMPSON  Seven months after taking over Charleston's cable systems, Suddenlink is announcing rate increases for its customers.
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Bills for thousands of Montgomery County cable viewers will increase by 4 percent starting March 1, when Comcast Corp., suburban Maryland's largest cable television provider, raises rates throughout the Washington region.
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roundup Plus: TI touts combo chip with VoIP, Wi-Fi...ContextWeb nabs $3 million...Macromedia taps into AIM.
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roundup Plus: TV chip company gets $19 million...Oracle extends deadline on PeopleSoft bid...MLB sells game clips for 99 cents...TiVo hires marketing chief.
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Three days and counting... The Internet radio death watch continues. Late yesterday, a federal appeals court denied an emergency stay petition from webcasters, refusing to delay the arrival of massive royalty hikes that threaten to bring down online radio as we know it. The new royalty rates - which could mean a 300 per cent payment increase for large stations, 1200 per cent for smaller broadcasters - are due to kick in this Sunday.â¦
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Plus: AT&T profit rises...Samsung SDI swings to loss...Outstanding earnings for Apple...Xerox profits from color printers.
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The Story: Some technologies always seem to be ?just around the corner.? Seven years ago, there was a big flurry of interest in end-to-end Ethernet (aka metro Ethernet) as a brace of new ventures promised to cut through the complexities of wide area networking.[ Slideshow: 2007's top underreported tech stories ]                                                    They didn?t deliver. One big reason: building a new network that will reach into offices and homes costs beaucoup bucks. As IDC analyst Boyd Chastant puts it, ?Digging a whole in the ground never gets cheaper.?Laying fiber is still expensive, but now telcos ? including AT&amp;T, Verizon, and Qwest ? plus cable companies such as Optimum LightPath, Cox, and Time Warner that already have fiber in the ground are offering Ethernet services. LightPath, for example, boasts of 2,500 miles of fiber in the ground and says it has lit more than 2,000 buildings in its service area in the northeast.End-to-end Ethernet offers a very affordable way to connect LANs to a wide area network. After all, every router has an Ethernet interface, you don?t need much special hardware, and the technology is very familiar. So most IT staffers will have little trouble adapting, says Burton Group analyst Jeff Young. That is, if you can get it: Pricing depends on your need for speed, and not all of the providers offer it throughout their service areas.Raw bandwidth isn?t Ethernet?s big advantage. It?s not necessarily much faster than private lines. However, says Chastant, it is more scalable. Conventional private-line services offer speeds near the bottom (around 10Mbps) and the near top (around 10Gbps), but not much in the middle. End-to-end Ethernet solves that. And it can be tied to Internet access, bumping up access speeds appreciably.Availability is on the upswing too, says Boyd. In the past, carriers worried that end-to-end Ethernet service would cannibalize other data services. But now that demand has reached critical mass, that concern appears to have faded. Meanwhile, providers and equipment manufacturers are ironing out incompatibles and clarifying service definitions in the Metro Ethernet Forum, Chastant says.It looks like we?ve turned the corner and end-to-end Ethernet is right in front of us.The Bottom Line: If your carrier doesn?t provide end-to-end Ethernet, another provider likely does. It?s worth the trouble to look: End-to-end Ethernet will give you the performance you need and because it?s a familiar technology you won?t have to retrain or replace your IT staff.Complete list of 2007 underreported stories: 1.? Java is becoming the new Cobol 2.? Sun Microsystems is back in the game 3.? Hackers take aim at Mac OS X 4.? There are some threats you can worry less about 5.? Companies may have found a way around H-1B visa limits 6.? Open source?s new commercial strategy 7.? End-to-end Ethernet finally arrives 8.? Blade servers arrive for the masses 9.? BI is dead; long live BI 10. Balance of power shifts to software buyers
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Plus:  EarthLink trims outlook...AT&#38;T posts $7.1 billion loss...Lucent sees first profitable year since 2000...EMC issues sunny report.
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: Barry A. Rothman of Onstream Media Corporation, +1-954- 917-6655, brothman@onstreammedia.com; or Chris Faust of FastLane Communications, +1-973-582-3498, cfaust@fast-lane.net   POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Feb.
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Gas prices are on the way up again, and the Detroit News predicts we'll see $3 a gallon this summer. Plus: AAA mapping adds road-closure and fuel-cost features, outstripping Mapquest. In Autopia.
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By Fredrick J. Johnson  By Fredrick J. Johnson  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Cox Communications will raise rates next month for some of its digital cable and high speed Internet services but plans to maintain the current rates for basic and expanded cable service.
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roundup Plus: Holiday Inn welcomes Priceline...More colleges get cheap online music...Glitches hit some EarthLink-hosted sites...More money for fuel cells.
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The carrier will give its broadband subscribers access to 3,900 hot spots for $1.99 a month.
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Business & money: Overspend on Â£17bn programme to upgrade network could be more than double previous estimate.
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RESTON, Va., Sept. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- Cable TV prices have increased nearly three times faster than the rate of inflation, and it seems like every week brings yet another increase.
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Largest US cable operators may launch joint bid that could be worth $17 billion: newspaper report. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Comcast Corp.
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roundup Plus: WS-I tackles Web services attachments...Newspaper sites take up paid search ads...Microsoft IPTV to woo Swiss test group.