Tech industry and consumer research firm Parks Associates have published a new report that explains that on-demand video libraries and custom widgets will drive adoption of “connected television experiences” — that is, Internet TV. The research firm’s new white paper, “From Boob Tube to YouTube: Consumers and TV“, points to strong interest among U.S. broadband [...]

Speed Matters, a broadband advocacy project of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), has released its second annual state-by-state Internet speed report, and the results show the U.S. still has a long way to go to catch up with the rest of the world. The report found that the average U.S. Internet speed was 2.3 [...]

A survey of communications industry leaders suggests that customers now view high-speed Internet as more important than HDTV, digital phone service and other new technologies. Research company Pike & Fischer recently surveyed executives, engineers and consultants representing the cable, telephone, satellite TV, broadcast, and technology equipment industries, along with academics and government regulators in the [...]

Dial-up Internet access is disappearing as barrier to the adoption of podcasting, video podcasting and other Internet media. Seventy-two percent of U.S. adults now have access to a broadband connection and more than half of American households now subscribe to broadband, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). “With 20 percent of non-broadband subscribers expecting [...]

Sweden’s The Local, an English-language news source, reports that Sigbritt L√∂thberg, a 75-year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden, now has the fastest home Internet connection in the world. L√∂thberg’s home has been supplied with a 40 Gigabits per second connection, thousands of times faster than the average residential link. According to the report, [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it is against network neutrality regulation, suggesting that it would hamper competition among Internet access providers. The FTC’s Internet Access Task Force issued a report yesterday, Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy, which summarizes the Task Force‚Äôs findings in the area of broadband Internet connectivity and, in particular, [...]