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Verizon has filed a patent-infringement complaint to the International Trade Commission against Cablevision. The dispute centers around set-top boxes.Verizon wants to stop new Cablevision customers from getting their boxes. The patents relate to how a customer can download videos from the boxes and use them for social networking."Each of these five patents is important to Verizon's success in the highly ...

Completing its purchase of a mid-sized Midwestern CLEC, Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) won conditional approval from the FCC for its acquisition of Chicago-based Cimco Communications.Announced in October, the deal gives the nation’s No. 1 cable provider a strong presence in the Upper Midwest, as well as entry into the mid-sized business market. Comcast began a few years ago to provide high-speed Internet ...

HD video advertising just got a boost with BigBand Networks Inc.’s release of its Broadcast Video Services Software 3.0, which enables IPTV, cablecos and others to deploy up to 150 percent more HD advertising and process up to 140 percent more individual HD program streams.The software is being offered as an upgrade to BigBand’s installed base of Broadband Multimedia Routers ...

Brazilian free-to-air television provider TV Globo has begun the transition of its customer base to the new digital television standard, including remote populations within the South American country. It has signed with Technicolor to use its HD set-top boxes, bringing the TV Globo digital signal via C-band satellite to rural areas throughout the country.Part of a privately owned Brazilian media ...

If you bought stock in TiVo yesterday, you are celebrating tonight.The company’s shares were up 62 percent at 4:10 ET after word that it had won a legal battle against DISH Network and EchoStar over claims of patent infringement. A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that found the companies were violating TiVo’s digital video recorder patent. DISH and EchoStar said ...