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Will Workman is a former editor of telco industry publications. He is now working on his PhD in mass communications. He can be reached care of
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Broadband Offers No Miracle for Journalism
by Will Workman, 06.22.2009
Journalism is dead in several senses that have everything to do with news audiences, not news providers. More...
TV Anywhere Equals Free TV Nowhere?
by Will Workman, 04.03.2009
Like some morbid meteorologist, over recent months I have been watching the broadband video landscape as it darkened under gathering storm clouds. More...
Obama Bailout Promises Hope and Hype
by Will Workman, 01.13.2009
There's no doubt Barack Obama understands the Internet, even if, unlike Al Gore, he didn't invent it. More...
Hulu Gets It Right—the First Time
by Will Workman, 01.09.2009
Lately it's become de rigueur for news outlets documenting hip tech trends to run articles on cutting the TV umbilical cord. More...
Broadband Video Headed for Shakedown
by Will Workman, 12.30.2008
Those numbers, say analysts, will likely make this holiday season unremittingly gloomy. But for providers of broadband video, the shockwaves will take their toll. More...
Google's New Platform May Upend iPhone
by Will Workman, 10.15.2008
The expected unveiling of a new generation of smartphones equipped with Google's Android software and linked to faster networks could herald a breathtaking sea change in our usage and definition of broadband. More...
Variables in the Digital Video Logjam
by Will Workman, 07.23.2008
If the evolution of broadband video content takes the path music did, then someday soon we will all be using the video equivalents of iPods and iTunes. More...
Comcast Vows ‘Protocol Agnostic’ Approach
by Will Workman, 05.28.2008
An Associated Press investigation last October found Comcast was sending out fake TCP reset packets to either end of a file-sharing connection, causing the target computer to reset its connection over and over again. More...
Auction Opens Mobile Broadband Horizons
04.14.2008
Will Workman is a former editor of telco industry publications Cable World and MediaView. He is now working on his PhD in mass communications. He can be reached care of TV Technology. More...
Wi-Fi, WiMax Efforts Walloped
by Will Workman, 04.02.2008
EarthLink announced in February that it is putting its city Wi-Fi business up for sale. More...
Comcast Caught in a Free-Speech Firestorm
by Will Workman, 11.21.2007
It employs technology that detects when you’ve been using the phone a ton. Then, masquerading as your phone, it sends a busy signal to those calling you. You wouldn’t like that very much, would you? More...
Will WiMAX End Wi-Fi, Cellular Woes?
by Will Workman, 09.19.2007
As clichés go, huge has become hugely overused in recent years. But as telecommunications markets go, they don’t get any more huge than the New York metropolitan area. More...
Cable Operators Finally Face FCC Mandate
by Will Workman, 07.25.2007
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 may now seem like ancient history, but its reverberations are still being felt. More...
Broadband Benefits From TV Ad Dollars
by Will Workman, 06.27.2007
It’s only a mere $9 billion. Based on various news reports, that’s the roughly what advertisers will spend on broadcast TV in the upcoming season beginning this fall, with no increase over the current season. More...