Cable people used to laugh raucously at the idea of computer TV. “There’s no ‘ctrl-alt-delete’ button on a TV remote,” they’d say.
That was then, this is now. Having watched the general public embrace computers and mobility products like politicians promising tax cuts, cable has developed a variety of computer-oriented applications that run the gamut from Web sites connected to cable shows to actually putting television technology in the hands of tablet-wielding customers. Read more »
Tags: cable, Connected Intelligence, iPad, Simmermon, television, Time Warner Cable
Apple, Connected Intelligence, Consumer Technology, Entertainment | Jim Barthold, Sr. Analyst, NPD Connected Intelligence | 
July 20, 2011 10:01 am | 
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