Time Warner Cable wants you to know that if you're one of their customers — the slow speeds you've been experiencing are the result of a denial of service attack by nefarious hacker-types. In an email to Consumerist, Jeff Simmermon, Director of Digital Communications for TWC, wrote that the IS...

The latest edition of my weekly updates on my life and adventures in the City of Angels. This one’s a little late, as I had a busy weekend, but I promised to bring you the goods each and every week, and so I do. I spent much of this week buying furniture and various items for my new place, and...

Filed under: Industry, Cable Wait, what? Time Warner Cable is still a part of Time Warner, Inc.? Weren't they supposed to split, like, almost a year ago? We've always heard that old flames are hard to extinguish, so we guess we shouldn't be too shocked to hear that this drawn-out separation is still...

Yesterday AMD announced that it was building a specialty supercomputer to deliver gaming through a computing cloud. Aside from the coolness of being able to play your video games on an iPhone, pause them, and pick them up at home, the news bolsters the cloud business model — taking it beyond s...

Viacom is demanding that Time Warner Cable pay more for the right to broadcast its networks, but TWC has refused. Tonight at midnight, 13.3 million subscribers in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Cleveland will feel the effects of the stalemate first hand when Viacom makes good on its threat to pu...

Filed under: Industry, MHD, Cable Time Warner Cable CEO & President Glenn Britt says don't blame him, blame sliding advertising and falling ratings for Viacom's lost revenue and subsequent Scrooge-style "extortion" of TWC customers to keep MTV Networks on after the ball drops tonight. Beyond the...

Ensnared in a vicious battle over 23 cents per customer, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Daily Show, South Park and the rest of Viacom's cable offerings may vanish tonight for 13 million Time Warner subscribers. When the ball drops at midnight in Times Square, so has Viacom pledged to yank the plug on 19...

Filed under: Fiber Be still our hearts! The rumors were indeed true, and U-verse TV has at long last arrived in the Triangle to combat the monopoly that is Time Warner Cable. A breaking report from WRAL has it that the carrier is "offering its U-verse TV service as well as high-speed internet servic...

Filed under: Cable, New content Who would've thunk that Kansas City, Missouri would end up being a hotbed for HD competition? With SureWest, Time Warner Cable and AT&T all vying for your hard-earned dollars, it's no shock to see the middle guy adding a little incentive to its package. As of now,...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office reached agreements with three big broadband providers to pare back access to the newsgroups on Usenet, in the name of fighting child pornography. read more...