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Time Warner Cable said today the number of its residential cable TV subscribers shrank sequentially.

Time Warner's cable TV subscribers number 12 million after losing 130,000 customers, or 1 percent, during the second quarter, according to the company's earnings report.

In tech, we often assume that those people who have discovered that accessing TV shows and films over the Internet is cheaper and are dropping their cable subscriptions, also known as "cord cutting."

Whether cord cutting occurs because people are opting for Web-based TV is much debated. There's no question that some of the … Read more

Live news coverage from CNN and Headline News is now available on mobile devices to subscribers of certain paid TV services.

Time Warner, which owns CNN and Headline News, announced today that its regular news channel programming will be streamed live over the Internet and available for people to view on their laptops, smartphones, or tablets if they subscribe to certain paid TV services.

Cable, satellite, and telco TV providers offering the service to their subscribers include: AT&T, Comcast, Cox Dish Network, Suddenlink, and Verizon Communications. Notably missing from this list are Cablevision and Time Warner Cable. Time … Read more

MTV and Comedy Central fans may soon be able to get that programming through the Time Warner Cable iPad after all.

Viacom, which owns MTV and Comedy Central, and Time Warner Cable have put their legal fight over whether Viacom content can be viewed through the iPad app on hold, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. Viacom filed a lawsuit against Time Warner Cable in April, shortly after the cable operator launched its new iPad app allowing cable TV subscribers to watch programming available via their cable package on their iPads while in their home.

The companies … Read more

CHICAGO--Cable operators say they are happy to compete with Netflix. But they think the high cost of sports and live programming will ultimately keep Netflix out of the game.

During a panel discussion here today at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable Show, Robert Marcus, COO of Time Warner Cable, and Michael Wilner, CEO of Insight Communications, a cable operator based in Kentucky, said that without live programming and sports Netflix and other over-the-top video providers will never be able to compete head to head with them. (The term "over the top" is used to refer … Read more

Feature films could be part of Apple's iCloud launch next week.

In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple to store its customers' movies on the company's servers, two sources close to the negotiations told CNET. Apple began discussing a cloud service with the studios over a year ago.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

Apple announced today that next Monday, the start of the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, it will unveil the iCloud, a long-anticipated service … Read more

Voltage Pictures, the studio behind "The Hurt Locker," has added nearly 20,000 IP addresses to its piracy lawsuit, a new report claims.

According to enthusiast site TorrentFreak, Voltage Pictures last week delivered to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the IP addresses of more people that it believes pirated copies of "The Hurt Locker." The newly added IP addresses are in addition to the 5,000 identified when the studio filed the lawsuit last year.

According to alleged court documents obtained by TorrentFreak, Voltage Pictures attorneys identified 10,532 Comcast customers … Read more

Can you tell Brian Tong is back on the show? Actually, we're legitimately wondering whether a home-brew electroshock like battery licking could produce video game skill improvements like DARPA is seeing with their electroshock research. No, really. Also, Google shuts down Google Video, President Obama wants a universal login that's not Facebook Connect, and Match.com just got a whole lot more trustworthy. --Molly

The agreement by Netflix and other top video-rental services to wait 28 days before renting newly released DVDs appears to be boosting disc sales--as much as 30 percent in some cases, say two national retailers.

Representatives from retail chains Best Buy and Hastings Entertainment told CNET during the past week that disc sales and even rentals are up for movies that aren't available at Netflix or Redbox during what has come to be known as the "sales-only window."

"On sales of specific titles, we've seen our market share go up over time and degradation of … Read more

Cablevision is the next cable operator on Viacom's hit-list as the company tries to stop cable companies from offering apps that stream its content on iPads.

Last week, Viacom notified Cablevision that its iPad app, which delivers live TV and video-on-demand to its subscribers on their iPads while they're inside their homes, is not authorized. This is just the latest move from Viacom in a battle to maintain control of its content on mobile devices. Last week, the company became involved in two lawsuits with Time Warner Cable over the cable operator's iPad app.

On Thursday, Time … Read more