Tag: TIME WARNER

Time Warner Cable has pulled a handful of TV channels from its iPad app after receiving complaints from three media companies. The app, released earlier this month, allows users to choose from over 30 channels streamed directly to their iPads. Yesterday, however, Time Warner suddenly removed several of the channels (including MTV and FX), after Viacom, Discovery Communications and the News ...

Call it the 'Hulu Effect,' but there's been a sea change in the way people watch television shows. According to Fast Company, a recent survey by Comscore and Silicon Alley Insider found that, during the month of July, more folks watched Hulu than did Time Warner Cable. The numbers stacked up like this: 38 million viewers watched a video at least once on Hulu, a free online video service, while ...

As of now, there are tons of ways to enjoy online TV for free, or at least incredibly cheaply. YouTube, Joost, TV.com and of course the perennial favorite Hulu all offer full-length TV shows and clips for free. The networks made the move to these sites in hopes of stemming the growing popularity of pirated videos. Cable channels, however, have been less eager to share their property online. ...

Sprint, Time Warner and Verizon have worked out an agreement with the New York State Attorney General to block access to Web sites and bulletin boards that host images of child pornography. This is a new tactic by law enforcement to stop the dissemination of these images and brings these companies into the effort by making them responsible, to a degree, for the content relayed across their ...

Like one of the undead characters from the '90s hit TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the WB Network is rising from the grave. Yet this time its incarnation will be solely online and targeted to the 16-to-34 year girls and women with a penchant for the 'Slayer' and other former WB Network broadcast shows. The shows, including the likes of 'Gilmore Girls,' 'Smallville,' 'The O.C.' and ...

If you have a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop or device, chances are you occasionally get online through hotspots at airports and hotels. Chances are also good that you've seen some pretty high prices. A company called FON hopes to change that by bringing cheap public Wi-Fi to everyone. Thanks to a new deal with Time Warner, it just may succeed. With FON, the idea is simple: Basically, you buy a FON wireless ...