Image caption Hillary Clinton called Wikileaks' latest release "an attack on the international community" The latest release of Wikileaks documents - a trove of US diplomatic cables which offer, among other things, unflattering and candid assessments of world leaders - has deeply angered American officials.
A trade group representing cable companies, which offer broadband Internet service over the same lines used to provide cable television, said it was disappointed that the rules seemed to favor telephone companies that already have wires in place for broadband service.
The motivation behind the NFL and MLB contracts is defensive: DirecTV is losing market share to cable, which can offer its subscribers a triple play of video, telephony and high-speed broadband.
They are mainly losing customers to cable companies, which offer competing broadband and voice services that make copper phone lines unnecessary.
The "skinny" bundle of well-known channels would be available for a fraction of the cost of most cable packages, which offer hundreds of channels but cost at least twice as much as the Apple service.
It points to a 2008 case involving Cablevision, the cable company, which offered its subscribers a service that could record your favorite TV shows by remote control -- like a TiVo, except that the recording machines were at Cablevision and not at your house.
The cable car ride, which offers spectacular views of western Europe's tallest mountains and deep valleys below, connects the Aiguille du Midi peak in France, at 3,842 metres, to Pointe Helbronner in Italy, at 3,462 metres.
Its pretension design aims to find a reasonable cable tension distribution, which offers rigidity to form the required parabolic surface.
Thus with considerable effort (deep internet investigation followed by phone calls to local bars) I found a pub in Point Richmond (about 20 minutes by car from my home) that planned to carry the game on one of its sports screens that evening (the game was televised live by an obscure Fox Sports Soccer Plus station that my cable company - which offers me something like 300 stations - didn't carry).
