A new study conducted by PCMag has left little doubt about which ISP in the United States offers the fastest service: It’s Verizon (VZ) FiOS, and it’s not particularly close. PCMag found that FiOS delivered average download speeds of 29.4…
Fall is officially here and we’re closing in on the final quarter of 2012, a time when products usually get real or fade into the vapor forever. One that we’ve been waiting to hear about just got a little more real as the Verizon Media Server (VMS),…
Xbox Live frontman Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) took to his blog on Tuesday to announce that Dish and Verizon FiOS customers can now download the Fox Broadcast app for Xbox 360 to stream next-day Fox programming. In order to use this free app, you’l…
This week I bought a Roku. Late to the party? Yes, but not as late as you might suppose. Roku has sold about 2.5 million streaming media boxes since the product launched in 2008. Approximately 1.5 million of those units moved in 2011, indicating an a…
Verizon launched its fiber to the home service the same year CableCARD was released, but Verizon’s implementation has always been a little different. For starters, Verizon got an extra year before it was required to support it, but even since then, V…
What’s faster than FiOS internet service? FiOS Quantum evidently, as Verizon’s latest high-speed internet service gets an official name and pricing. Effectively doubling every tier — except the entry-level 15/5 — each can be acquired with or withou…
What’s faster than FiOS internet service? FiOS Quantum evidently, as Verizon’s latest high-speed internet service gets an official name and pricing. Effectively doubling every tier — except the entry-level 15/5 — each can be acquired with or withou…
Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam doesn’t quite have all of those SpectrumCo AWS licenses in his pocket just yet, but if he does get them he has a decidedly old school idea of what to flood the airwaves with: TV. The Wall Street Journal quotes him saying V…
We first got our eyes on Motorola’s Connected Home Gateway home automation box during CES 2012, and now that it’s passed through the FCC it should be ready to do its all-in-one magic in real consumer’s homes sometime soon. What makes this device speci…
Although not the first to announce, Samsung and Verizon have officially announced that Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players “will be the first consumer electronics manufacturer” to get live HD and video on-demand including Flex View from Verizon Fi…
