The rumors have been swirling around for a few weeks, but today the Walt Disney Company officially announced that it is becoming an equity partner in Hulu. Disney, through a subsidiary of ABC Enterprises Inc., will join NBC Universal and News Corp. as an investor and content provider. Full-length episodes from ABC primetime, ABC Family [...]

This isn’t the first portable 3G router we’ve seen, but it certainly has the most convoluted name: the LevelOne 3G MobilSpot Portable Wireless HotSpot (WBR-3800) by CP Technologies. Just slot your EV-DO or HSDPA data card into the router’s CardBus or USB interfaces and you’ve got an instant portable network for sharing to any 802.11b/g [...]

It’s been a rough week or so for Big Cable, but it looks like the East Coast’s Cablevision’s decided to play things a little differently than Comcast and Time Warner: it’s just announced that uncapped 101Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 service will be rolling out on May 11 across its entire service area. The best part? It’ll [...]

Guess what everybody? Time Warner Cable isn’t the only one who thinks tiered broadband is the future — so does the American Cable Association (ACA). The group claims that a stepped set of packages is the only way in which the high-speed industry can survive the coming hellstorm of your online TV viewing and rampant [...]

On Saturday, Mashable’s Ben Parr noticed the same new iGoogle gadget I did: What’s Popular. He also asked the same question as me: did Google just roll out its own version of Digg?
While the short answer is no, it’s easy to see why people would think they did.
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Some researchers at UC San Diego, teamed up with Microsoft Research, have a novel new method in the works to let your computer save on power in sleep mode while still keeping up with IMs and whatever other network activity you pesky folks might be up to. Dubbed “Somniloquy,” the USB dongle acts as an [...]

Looking for a unique font for your next gift card or ransom letter? Graphic artist/creative director Rhett Dashwood used Google Maps to discover natural and man-made (OK, mostly man-made) structures and landscapes resembling the letters of the alphabet.
The project took about half a year, although it wasn’t exactly a full time endeavor. All of [...]

Polaris is a desktop viewer for Google Analytics data. It’s built on Adobe AIR, which means it can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. And while it doesn’t show you any data that you couldn’t find by logging into your Google Analytics account, Polaris does make your data easier to read at a glance.
The [...]

Man, Time Warner Cable — you are some shady players. Hot on the heels of the ISP’s decision to withdraw DOCSIS 3.0 trials from areas that have rejected its tiered billing plan, we’re hearing that TWC’s teamed up with Embarq to persuade the North Carolina state government into banning community-owned broadband services. Why? [...]

Netgear’s coaxial-hijacking adapter kit MCAB1001 MoCA is now available. The pair of devices, which turns your cable outlets into a home networking solution with transfer speeds up to 270 Mbps, is retailing on the company’s online shop for a penny under $190, and if you’d like to watch an infomercial on how it works, chock [...]