BSkyB and Google to become broadband bedfellows
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| Sky had problems with its fledgling on-demand film and sport
| download service in August. It was forced to shut down the service
| for three months after the software provided by Microsoft was
| cracked, enabling the digital protection to be stripped.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061206/sky_google_broadband.html?.v=2
Related:
Verizon takes over Microsoft TV code
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| Unhappy over the memory footprint of applications and delays in rolling
| them out, Verizon has ditched some of Microsoft's television software and
| has chosen instead to write its own.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060914-7742.html
FiOS TV and MSFT: When End-to-End Becomes Best of Breed
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| Quoting: "With the project in danger of running behind schedule, Verizon
| sent its own employees to oversee the work between Microsoft and Motorola.
| Engineers from all three companies had several meetings a day to nudge
| the project along. Eventually, Verizon took over the development of the
| program guide altogether from Microsoft, and ended up writing a new
| version of the software that was less memory-intensive."
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http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/laszlo/archives/017055.html
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