Will Workman

As clichés go, huge has become hugely overused in recent years. But as telecommunications markets go, they don’t get any more huge than the New York metropolitan area.

There's no doubt Barack Obama understands the Internet, even if, unlike Al Gore, he didn't invent it.

It's a real treat to teach bright undergrads at one of the nation's finest public universities.

Question: How many studio executives does it take to change a lightbulb?

Cable goes from rural curiosity to dominant player

The original technology of broadband over powerline (BPL) appears to be reawakening.

Quick quiz question: Can you name the recent event that drew Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Mark Cuban and Barbara Eden all on the same day?

If the evolution of broadband video content takes the path music did, then someday soon we will all be using the video equivalents of iPods and iTunes.

A whole decade ago, in a galaxy that now seems light years away, I was a neophyte tech reporter covering a TCI press conference.

While it's been generating quite a static hum in recent years, WiMax, the new broadband wireless standard designed to work over wide areas, now appears to have a few 800-pound gorillas in its court

In one rarefied moment, the future of broadband beckoned: it's mobile, it's hip, it's socially connected.

His stated mandate is no different than that of his Republican predecessor: "To ensure that every American has access to open and robust broadband."

Lately it's become de rigueur for news outlets documenting hip tech trends to run articles on cutting the TV umbilical cord.

Those numbers, say analysts, will likely make this holiday season unremittingly gloomy. But for providers of broadband video, the shockwaves will take their toll.

Like some morbid meteorologist, over recent months I have been watching the broadband video landscape as it darkened under gathering storm clouds.

Internet ad revenues in the first quarter of 2009 dropped a hefty 5 percent from the same period last year, from $6.1 billion to $5.5