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A cable is two or more wires or ropes running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly. In mechanics, cables are used for lifting and hauling; in electricity they are used to carry electrical currents. An optical cable contains one or more optical fibers in a protective jacket that supports the fibers. Mechanical cable is more specifically called wire rope.

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Comcast bid for NBC Universal could be sealed next week: source

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast's bid to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal from General Electric could be sealed next week if GE reaches an agreement with Vivendi, a source close to the matter said Wednesday.


Time Warner Cable asks help on rising program fees

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Time Warner Cable Inc. is asking the public for help as it tries to curtail increases in the programming fees it has to pay to carry cable channels and broadcast stations on its systems.


Joost assets bought by online ad company Adconion

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, has been sold to an online advertising company.


GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on (AP)

GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on

Technology / Business

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over ...


Sezmi offers a new kind of TV service

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sezmi, a Silicon Valley startup that's pioneering a new type of TV service, is opening up a public test of its system Monday in California.


Comcast's NBC talks cap its decades-long rise (AP)

Comcast's NBC talks cap its decades-long rise

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Ralph Roberts knew he was onto something big when people ran after his cable TV trucks in Tupelo, Miss., asking for a visit to their homes.


Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...


Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on ...


Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end (AP)

Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- You'll be able to watch popular cable television series such as HBO's "Entourage" and AMC's "Mad Men" on your computers by the end of the year without paying extra - as long as you're a Comcast Corp. ...


FCC clears deep-sea fiber-optic cable linking Asia, California

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given the green light for a trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable funded by an international consortium that includes Google. The new cable, expected to be carrying data traffic by ...


Sony Intros New Touch-Screen HD PC/TV

Sony Intros New Touch-Screen HD PC/TV

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony today unveiled its new touch-enabled, multi-media machine— the VAIO L Touch HD PC/TV.


3 Americans share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

'Masters of light' win Nobel Physics Prize

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering "masters of light" work on fibre optics and semiconductors, the Nobel jury said.


Net neutrality rules face mounting GOP opposition

Technology / Internet

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- Republican opposition is mounting as federal regulators prepare to vote this month on so-called "network neutrality" rules, which would prohibit broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain ...


Building a better qubit

Building a better qubit: Combining 6 photons together results in highly robust qubits

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Exploiting quantum mechanics for transmitting information is a tantalizing possibility because it promises secure, high speed communications. Unfortunately, the fragility of methods for storing and sending ...


Comcast looks to future in bid for NBC Universal (AP)

Comcast looks to future in bid for NBC Universal

Technology / Business

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Years ago, Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts was asked at a conference what kept him awake at night. His answer: A new technology that would severely hurt the cable TV business.