Will Workman

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.

There's no doubt Barack Obama understands the Internet, even if, unlike Al Gore, he didn't invent it.

It's a real treat to teach bright undergrads at one of the nation's finest public universities.

Question: How many studio executives does it take to change a lightbulb?

Cable goes from rural curiosity to dominant player

The original technology of broadband over powerline (BPL) appears to be reawakening.

Quick quiz question: Can you name the recent event that drew Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Mark Cuban and Barbara Eden all on the same day?

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.

A whole decade ago, in a galaxy that now seems light years away, I was a neophyte tech reporter covering a TCI press conference.

While it's been generating quite a static hum in recent years, WiMax, the new broadband wireless standard designed to work over wide areas, now appears to have a few 800-pound gorillas in its court

In one rarefied moment, the future of broadband beckoned: it's mobile, it's hip, it's socially connected.

Journalism is dead in several senses that have everything to do with news audiences, not news providers.

In my epic struggle towards a Ph.D. in mass communications, one of the more intriguing subjects I've had the opportunity to study has been the history of technology.

The radio star lasted more than a half century until, according to the Buggles, video killed it. But the video star is looking mighty old at 25.

Everyone has fuzzy feelings about "Field of Dreams." Kevin Costner in a bucolic Iowa cornfield hears a voice, builds a ballpark, and "he," Shoeless Joe Jackson, comes.

His stated mandate is no different than that of his Republican predecessor: "To ensure that every American has access to open and robust broadband."

Those numbers, say analysts, will likely make this holiday season unremittingly gloomy. But for providers of broadband video, the shockwaves will take their toll.