Link Dump For 10-29-2011

Charter related

-Charter Communications (CHTR_) rated new Outperform at Credit Suisse. $60 price target. Fundamentals are improving and the company generates solid free cash flow.

-Charter Says CEO Lovett to Step Down on April 30 Or Sooner

-Charter CEO to Step Down

-Mick Jagger Has Been Recording New Tracks On Paul Allen's Megayacht

-Charter ends free high-speed Internet service for St. Louis

-Cable marketers use Facebook to sell Movies On Demand [includes CHTR]

-Charter to give $250,000 to Lindenwood University

-Charter Communications Third Quarter Earnings Sneak Peek
" The average estimate of analysts is for the company to break even after the company reported net loss of 82 cents per share in the year earlier quarter."

-Epix mobile application for iOS (Apple), Blackberry, and Android devices and tablets is now available

Cable/Video Biz

-Comcast Creates Cell-Tower Unit

-Comcast expands into mobile tower business

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In switch, cable operators want to go "a la carte"

-Game On: Comcast, FiOS TV Coming to Xbox

-Time Warner Cable Offers Free Slingboxes

-Motorola: Cable MSOs may upgrade plant beyond 1 GHz

-Cable Engineers Get Pocket Guide for Energy Savings

-Verizon officially launches its home monitoring service

-Verizon to fill in FiOS gaps with home LTE wireless service

-Cablevision delivers live high school sports to iPad, iPhone

-Bloomberg TV Begins Live Streaming to the iPad [for everyone, for free]

-DirecTV Adds Live In-Home TV To iPad App

-AT&T's wireless receiver lets U-verse subs watch video anywhere in house

-AT&T U-verse Cuts Cord With Cisco Wireless Set-Top: Telco to Offer Wi-Fi-Based IPTV Receivers Starting Oct. 31

-Cisco, AT&T Team For Integrated Wireless-TV Offer

-YouTube Close to Announcing Video 'Channels'

-Netflix Now 33% Of Peak Downstream Internet Traffic In U.S


-Google Tries Again With TV 2.0 Overhaul


Science and Technology

-Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher

-Larry Page on Speed: "There Are No Companies That Have Good Slow Decisions"


-Invisibility Tiles Can Cloak Any Shape [we live in amazing times]

"The science of invisibility is rapidly moving from a focus on research to a focus on development. In other words, this discipline is changing from one of science to one of engineering"


-Researchers develop new wireless technology for faster, more efficient networks [and why iPhone's new dual antennae are a big deal, one for sending, one for receiving, at the same time]

-Apple iOS 5.0 downloads drive all-time UK net traffic high


-Google Advanced Search tweaks irritate some users: If you want Google to match a word precisely, you can no longer put a "+" in front of it--instead, you have to use quotation marks

"Perhaps Google is working on a way to incorporate the Google+ social network into its search system, and therefore needed to get rid of the + operator's previous functionality"

-How IT Costs More Jobs than It Creates