Wireless Technology/Broadcast/TV Industry

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Required Reading:

  • William H. Lehr and John M. Chapin. "On the Convergence of Wired vs. Wireless Access in Network Architectures," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
  • References:

  • Brian X. Chen. "A Squeeze on Smartphones," The New York Times, March 2, 2012. The New York Times
  • Cisco White Paper, "Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2011-2016, February 14, 2012. Cisco
  • Brian Chen. "Sharing the Air," The New York Times, June 7, 2012. The New York Times
  • Azam Ahmed. "Loss of a Wireless Dream Caps a Fast Fall from Grace," The New York Times, February 15, 2012. The New York Times
  • Brian Stelter. "A New Way to Stream Broadcast Television," The New York Times, February 14, 2012. The New York Times
  • Edward Wyatt. "FCC Bars the Use of Airwaves for a Broadband Plan," The New York Times, February 15, 2012. The New York Times
  • Amy Schatz. "FCC Adjusts Final Rules On Use of Vacant TV Band," The Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Dailywireless.org. "Microsoft's WhiteFi: Wi-Fi Using Whitespaces," Dailywireless.org
  • Esther Shein. "Microsoft Launches Massive Wireless Hotspot," InformationWeek, 9/17/2010. Informationweek
  • Amy Schatz. "Broadband Plan Calls for More Cash," Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Eric Naone. "Wi-Fi via White Spaces," Technology Review, August 18, 2009. Technology Review
  • Brad Stone. "From TV To the Web To Your Phone," NYT, May 31, 2009. The New York Times
  • Eric Naone. "Wi-Fi via White Spaces," Technology Review, August 18, 2009. Technology Review
  • Brad Stone. "From TV To the Web To Your Phone," NYT, May 31, 2009. The New York Times
  • Edward Wyatt. "F.C.C. Likely to Open New Airwaves to Wireless," The New York Times, September 12, 2010. The New York Times
  • Edward Wyatt. "F.C.C. Opens Unused TV Airwaves to Broadband," The New York Times, September 23, 2010. The New York Times
  • Kraig Becker. "Mt. Everest Now has Cell Phone Service," Gadling.com, 10/30/2012. Gadling.com
  • Cecilia Kang, Hayley Tsukayama, "AT&T to slow flow of data for its heaviest users," The Washington Post, August 1, 2011. The Washington Post
  • Randall Stross. "Cheap, Ultrafast Broadband? At Least Hong Kong Has It," The New York Times, March 5, 2011. The New York Times
  • Edward Wyatt. "A Clash Over the Airwaves," The New York Times, April 21, 2011. The New York Times
  • William H. Lehr and John M. Chapin. "On the Convergence of Wired vs. Wireless Access in Network Architectures," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Businessinnovation
  • Edward Wyatt. "A Clash Over the Airwaves," The New York Times, April 21, 2011. The New York Times
  • "Fair dinkum: the digital ambition," The World in 2011. The Economist, November 22, 2010. The Economist
  • Arik Hesseldahl. "The Second Coming Of Iridium," Businessweek, Oct. 29, 2009. Businessweek
  • Ann Keeton. "Airlines Look for Ways to Provide Wireless Services," Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2008. The Wall Street Journal
  • Brad Reed. "New Bluetooth standard efficiency," Network World, 2/18/09. Network World
  • Vivian Wai-yin Kwok. "China's 3G Battle," Forbes.com 9.01.09 Forbes
  • John Markoff. "Do We Need a New Internet?" NYT, 2/15/09. The New York Times
  • Nate Anderson. "White spaces on steroids and free spectrum for everyone," Ars Technica, 6/29/09. Ars Technica
  • Rich Jaroslovsky. "Motorola's New Mojo," Bloomberg Businessweek, July 12-July 18, 2010, pp. 72. Businessweek
  • Roger Cheng. "Verizon's Cheaper Data Plan," WSJ, October 20, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Peter Burrows. "Gunning for an Elephant in Silicon Valley," Businessweek, October 19, 2009. Businessweek
  • Nic Svenson. Broadband coming wirelessly to the bush," CSIRO Australia, 11/2/10. Eurekalert.org
  • Stelter, Brian. "Netflix is Said to be Close to Acquiring a Television Show," New York Times, March 16, 2011. The New York Times
  • Michael Antonoff. "Digital TV at Last?" Scientific American, February 2007. ebscohost.com/li>
  • Stuart Goldenberg. "Cable TV in Pursuit of Mobility," The New York Times, March 3, 2011. The New York Times
  • Evan Ramstad. "TV Makers Turn Their Hopes to Apps," The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2011. The Wall Street Journal
  • Eric Savitz. "Apple's Next Multi-Billion-Dollar Business: Connected Televisions," Forbes, February 3, 2011. Forbes
  • Jason Kilar. "Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV," blog, Hulu.com. Hulu.com
  • Todd Shields. "The Hunt for Broadband Spectrum," Bloomberg Business Week, January 24-30, 2011. Businessweek
  • Cari Tuna. "Cisco Joins Race to Mix TV, Web Video," The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2011. The Wall Street Journal
  • Evan Ramstad. "TV Makers Turn Their Hopes to Apps," The Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2011. The Wall Street Journal
  • Eric Savitz. "Internet Creeps into New TVs; In 2010, 21% had connectivity," Forbes.com, December 30, 2010. Forbes
  • Erica Naone. "Wi-Fi via White Spaces," Technology Review, August 18, 2009. Technology Review
  • BOOK: Joel Brinkley. "Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded," Harvest Book, August 15, 1998.
  • DTV Transition and the Coupon Program NTIA
  • Tekla S. Perry. "Special Report: The Day Analog TV Dies," IEEE Spectrum, January 1, 2009. IEEE Spectrum
  • John Eggerton. "DTV-Delay Fails to Pass In House," Broadcasting & Cable, January 28, 2009. Broadcasting & Cable
  • Jacques Steinberg. "Digital TV, Beckons, Many Miss the Call," The New York Times, January 29, 2009. The New York Times
  • Eric Pfanner. "Hybrid Internet-TV Makes Progress in Europe," NYT, 9/21/09. The New York Times
  • ______. What is WiMax? WIMAX
  • Cliff Edwards. "Soon TVs and PCs May Work Like the Wii," Business Week, April 13, 2009. Businessweek
  • Tom Lowry. "The Online TV Threat has Cable Scrambling," Business Week, April 13, 2009. Businessweek
  • Danny Hest, Angela Shi, Ann Tracey, NBA 6120 F'09 HW #2 Slides.
  • Ken Auletta. "Annals of Communications: Non-Stop News," The New Yorker, Jan. 25, 2010, pp. 38-47. The New Yorker
  • _____ Ad Revenue Track, "Broadcast Television Ad Revenues Were Down 22.6% in 3rd Quarter," December 18, 2009. TVB.org
  • AP. "Business model for broadcast TV unraveling," the Hollywood Reporter, December 30, 2009. The Hollywood Reporter
  • ______. "Samsung teams with DreamWorks on 3D TV lineup," USA Today, March 2010. USA Today
  • Daisuke Wakabayashi. "Sony TV Business to Go on the Attack," Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Sam Schechner, Ethan Smith. "Cable Dispute Disrupts Oscars for Millions," The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2010. The Wall Street
  • N.R. Kleinfield. "Oscar Night Suspense, The Poof! Cables Back," The New York Times, March 8, 2010. The New York Times
  • Brian Stelter, Brooks Barnes. "Disney-Cablevision Fight Signifies More to Come," The New York Times, March 8, 2010. The New York Times
  • Robert Capps. "The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine," Wired Magazine, August 24, 2009. Wired
  • Brian Stelter, Brooks Barnes. "At the Last Minute, a Disney-Cablevision Truce," NYT, March 7, 2010. The New York Times
  • Wikipedia. Wikipedia
  • Ronald Grover, Tom Lowry, Cliff Edwards. "Revenge of the Cable Guys," Bloomberg Businessweek, March 22 & 29, 2010. Businessweek