I’ve often joked that if something’s not on Facebook, it didn’t happen. Facebook’s new Timeline feature makes that adage even more apparent. Article source: http://news.yahoo.com/xbox-360-stream-26-verizon-fios-channels-subscribers-182055265.html
Monthly Archive: December 2011
Dec
22
2011
Verizon readying FiOS TV Media Streamer for late 2012
The new push in DVR tech for your home is the whole home DVR system and they are grand. It’s so great to have content you can record on any TV and then playback on any TV. verizon has a new device that it is working on for late 2012 launch that is a fiOS …
Dec
22
2011
Buffalo Calls Verizon a Scrooge For Bypassing City With FiOS
As a city resident, it does make me wonder, is my money not good enough for verizon? said Assemblyman Sean Ryan, D-Buffalo, a scheduled speaker at the rally, which is set for early this afternoon outside verizons Hertel Avenue switching center. A spokesman said verizon is focusing on boosting its subscriber base in communities where …
Dec
22
2011
Verizon to solicit FIOS in Holbrook
verizon representatives will be soliciting the company’s FIOS service to multi-family dwellings in town. Selectmen on Dec. 13 voted to grant a $100 permit allowing verizon representatives to offer its FIOS service during in-person solicitations. Residents have a so-called no-knock option, where they can be placed on a list if they don’t want to be …
Dec
22
2011
Verizon readying FiOS TV Media Streamer for late 2012
The new push in DVR tech for your home is the whole home DVR system and they are grand. It’s so great to have content you can record on any TV and then playback on any TV. verizon has a new device that it is working on for late 2012 launch that is a fiOS …
Dec
22
2011
Xbox 360 To Stream 26 Verizon FiOS Channels For Subscribers
November 29, 2011 By Adam Rosenberg verizon will be bringing streaming FiOS cable TV service to the Xbox 360, with 26 channels available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are also FiOS Internet and cable subscribers. Baby steps. Try to keep that in mind as you read the following news. Verizon will soon start streaming …
Dec
22
2011
DOJ launches probe into Verizon’s spectrum deal with big cable
Perhaps verizon was a bit hasty in its decision to stop growing its FiOS TV and broadband Internet business in favor of wireless partnerships with big cable companies. U.S. regulators have launched a probe into verizon’s recent wireless spectrum agreements,which could leave the largest wireless carrier walking away empty-handed. As VentureBeat previously reported, Verizon will …
Dec
22
2011
WGRZ-TV brings back the classics
Classic television programming is returning with a vengeance to WGRZ-TV with the addition of around-the-clock broadcasting of classic TV favorites, including “The Monkees,” “Three’s Company” and “Dragnet.” The addition of provider Antenna TV — available on digital Channel 2.2, on Time-Warner Cable Channel 114 and verizon fios Channel 460 — reflects the popularity of classic …
Dec
22
2011
Nielsen To Rate FiOS TV On Xbox 360
Nielsen says it’s prepared to give viewing credit for the 26 live TV channels that verizon fios TV customers will be able to watch through Microsoft’s Xbox 360 later this month. Microsoft partered with over 40 TV content providers for a couple of years, FiOS TV being one of them. “TV content delivered through game …
Dec
22
2011
Matt Wood: The Verizon-cable deal would end competition and incentives to innovate
There is a growing divide in the United States between the people who can afford top-notch Internet access and those who cannot. The best way to close that gap is with more competition. But we’re moving in the opposite direction. Unless federal regulators scuttle the anti-competitive pacts just struck between the nation’s largest phone and …