Will Workman

Lately it's become de rigueur for news outlets documenting hip tech trends to run articles on cutting the TV umbilical cord.

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

Internet ad revenues in the first quarter of 2009 dropped a hefty 5 percent from the same period last year, from $6.1 billion to $5.5

Why stop at a 10-minute online video when you can produce and distribute your own channel?

EarthLink announced in February that it is putting its city Wi-Fi business up for sale.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 may now seem like ancient history, but its reverberations are still being felt.

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.

So how important is interactive television?...Well, it depends on how you define it and how much money you have thrown at it.

Like some morbid meteorologist, over recent months I have been watching the broadband video landscape as it darkened under gathering storm clouds.