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Blockbuster defends store/kiosk business model
Video Business Online | 28 minutes ago
NOV. 20 | PHYSICAL: Blockbuster chairman Jim Keyes defended the company?s in-store component to its business model to investors during a Friday presentation at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer and Retail conference.

Light Reading - Broadband - Calix Files for an IPO - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 2 hours 15 minutes ago
Why wait for 2012? The end of the world is starting right now: Calix Networks Inc. has filed to go public.

Comcast completes fiber-optic upgrade in Farmington
American City Business Journals | 2 hours 23 minutes ago
Comcast Corp. has finished a $10 million upgrade of its cable system in Farmington, Aztec and Bloomfield in northwestern New Mexico.

Cable Digital News - Video - Harmonic Goes Lite for Cable IPTV - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 2 hours 58 minutes ago
Adding yet another proprietary idea to the coming cable IPTV wave, Harmonic Inc. (Nasdaq: HLIT) is proposing Docsis Lite, an architecture that would send video traffic through IPTV-optimized edge QAM devices, bypassing the cable modem termination system (CMTS).

Light Reading Europe - Services Software - MTS Exec: Partners, Processes Key to Success - Telecom News Analysis
Unstrung.com | 3 hours 51 minutes ago
Senior exec at Russian giant MTS says carriers need to focus on partnership management and internal processes to succeed in the Internet world

Comcast Spotlights takes sales circulars to VOD
CED Magazine | 4 hours 3 minutes ago
Starting in the middle of this month. Comcast Spotlight debuted Video Circulars On Demand in order to help large retailers connect with customers over the holiday season.

Broken Embraces': Wholly Delightful
Wall Street Journal, The | 4 hours 16 minutes ago
Penélope Cruz does her best to act badly during several passages in Pedro Almodóvar's "Broken Embraces," but her effort is doomed to failure. She's magnificent even when her performance is supposed to be clumsy, and those passages aren't what they seem anyway. They're part of a wonderfully elaborate joke in a film that serves as a love letter to the movies, and a demonstration of the medium's mysterious power.

3G wireless: more coverage in Woodland Hills, California
FierceWireless | 7 hours 7 minutes ago
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles County residents, businesses and visitors are enjoying improved service thanks to a new Verizon Wireless cell site. The site improves 3G wireless... Read more >>

Panasonic's portable Blu-ray player wins award
Video Business Online | 7 hours 34 minutes ago
NOV. 19 | PHYSICAL: Panasonic?s portable Blu-ray Disc player has been awarded a 2010 Innovations Award by the Consumer Electronics Association.

India Essar Comm to file revised bond offer doc
Reuters | 8 hours 55 minutes ago
MUMBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - India's central bank has sought a revised offer document from Essar Communication Holdings that details how it plans to use funds raised in a $920 million bond issue, two sources with knowledge of the development said.