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The Motley Fool January 10, 2008 Dave Mock	The End of Cellular as We Knew It The Federal Communications Commission has established February 18 as the date that wireless providers may shut off their old, analog cellular networks that sparked the wireless boom back in the 1980s.
Home Theater May 27, 2009	Analog-Shutoff Test Hits a Nerve A single-day record of 55,000 calls flooded help lines staffed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday, May 21, after TV stations across the nation broadcast a series of warnings about the shutoff of analog television signals scheduled for June 12.
Home Theater June 11, 2009	DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter?
PC World May 2003 Anne Kandra	Consumer Watch: Is It Time for a High-Definition TV? Your next monitor could double as a sophisticated entertainment device.
Home Theater April 14, 2004	Study: Rosy Future for DTVs Global shipments of digital televisions will hit 93 million in 2008, more than five times the present level, according to In-Stat/MDR.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Morgan Housel	Best Buy Gives Analog the Boot The retailer becomes the first to pull the plug on analog TVs.
Home Theater January 22, 2009	Hawaii Enters DTV Age Early Hawaii became the first state in the union to turn off analog television signals, thus entering the age of DTV at least a month earlier than the deadline for the other 49 states.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Heads to President's Desk Congress finally sent legislation Wednesday to President Bush that sets Feb. 17, 2009, as the end of analog broadcasting in the United States. After that, television sets must have digital tuners to receive an over-the-air signal.
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	YouTube Mobilizes With Verizon Google property YouTube has just announced a partnership with Verizon to give Verizon Wireless V Cast customers access to a selection of YouTube videos from their mobile phones.
Home Theater October 26, 2007	FCC Slaps Retailers on Analog TV Labeling The fines are for selling analog televisions without adequately warning consumers that these sets will become obsolete with the end of analog broadcasting on February 17, 2009.
InternetNews November 2, 2006 David Needle	Smartphones Winning Over Road Warriors In-Stat study says feature-rich phones are starting to rival appeal of Blackberry.
Home Theater September 14, 2007	FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog.
Home Theater November 11, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	NY Tries Brief Analog TV Shutoff Analog television channels went dark for two minutes in the New York metropolitan area a few weeks ago, in an early trial run for the DTV transition, scheduled for February 2009.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Robert M. Rast	The Dawn of Digital TV Analog television prepares to meet its doom, vacating valuable real estate in the radio spectrum -- and the band rush begins
InternetNews August 30, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Mobile Video Has a Few Years to Go Apple's Video iPods are a hit and so are Sony's P2Ps. Still, the industry built around mobile video content that lasts longer than 30 minutes is still a largely experimental one.
Home Theater July 2, 2008	HD Radio Stations: More Power, Please FM stations are lobbying the FCC for permission to boost their signals and expand their audience.
Reason February 2006 Julian Sanchez	Couch Potato Subsidies The Senate agreed in November to spend up to $3 billion retrofitting old television sets to guarantee that every man, woman, and child in the U.S. would be able to enjoy high-quality digital television.
Home Theater November 17, 2008	FCC Green-Lights DTV Range Fix The Federal Communications Commission has green-lighted distributed transmission systems to essentially allow the usual single broadcast tower to be supplemented with additional transmitters.
Home Theater February 13, 2009	FCC Slows Some DTV Transitions In the latest twist, the Federal Communications Commission is rattling its regulatory saber at some of the stations that are planning to cut off analog television broadcasts next week.
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Home Theater October 18, 2007	Best Buy Banishes Obsolete TVs Best Buy stopped selling analog sets on October 1, 2007. No longer will confused low-end consumers take home obsolete TVs. A bright new DTV world is dawning.
Home Theater May 20, 2009	FCC to Do 'Soft Test' of DTV Transition Analog TV broadcasts will be interrupted three times on May 21, 2009 with a message heralding the end of analog broadcasting, coming on June 12.
Popular Mechanics October 2008 Rob Sabin	Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense.
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Tekla S. Perry	Digital Dilemma Converting to digital television is supposed to be simple, but it's not.
The Motley Fool May 19, 2010 Anders Bylund	Can Analog Devices Fire on Every Cylinder? Analog Devices is firing on nearly all cylinders. Even the one business division that's misfiring seems to be a limited problem that will go away quickly.
Home Theater September 11, 2008	Wilmington, NC Lives the DTV Future Now Folks in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting digital signals exclusively in a trial run for the overall U.S. DTV transition.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Anders Bylund	Fat High-Tech Yields From Analog Devices Quarterly reports indicate Analog Devices seems to be coming out of a minor business realignment with a more focused product portfolio and a stronger operating blueprint.
Home Theater February 14, 2008	DTV Coverage May Lose Viewers As many as six million viewers may lose reception of some channels, according to a study.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006	Asian Consumption of Semiconductors Expected to Exceed $200 Billion by 2010 After the 2001 economic downturn in the semiconductor market, most of the electronic manufacturing from the U.S. and Europe shifted to low-cost regions in Asia. The migration of manufacturing converted Asia into the largest manufacturing base for electronics today.
Home Theater June 20, 2005 Darryl Wilkinson	Will Digital TV Save Lives? A new bill proposes an end to analog TV broadcasts and the beginning of enhanced public safety.
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark	DTV Bill Pushes Educational Outreach New legislation would mandate consumer programs by broadcasters, retailers and the FCC.
Home Theater February 6, 2009	Networks to Keep Analog Until Bitter End Several major TV networks have announced that they plan for their owned affiliate stations to keep analog signals on the airwaves until the final deadline in June.
Entrepreneur August 2004 Mike Hogan	Passing the Buck Now you can hand off cellular calls to VoIP and save big on roaming and long-distance charges.
Home Theater July 30, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV STB Coupon Deadline Nears July 31 is the last day to get a $40 subsidy coupon for a DTV set-top box.
The Motley Fool November 28, 2007 Anders Bylund	Keep It Simple, Analog Analog Devices' earnings report showed a third consecutive period of fading margins; the company may need to simplify and focus to drive their core business.
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark	Barton Slaps Hard Deadline on DTV Transition House panel prepares for the first hearings on legislation stating that broadcasters must cease transmitting programs in analog format.
Home Theater February 25, 2008	Feds Mail Analog-TV Adapter Coupons Your $40 federal subsidy designed to keep your old TV going is in the mail -- if you've requested it.
InternetNews October 24, 2005 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Disagree on DTV Deadline, Subsidies The U.S. House and Senate are $2 billion and four months apart in their legislative efforts to finally wean Americans off analog broadcasting.
Home Theater March 19, 2009	FCC Tweaks DTV Transition Scenario The Federal Communications Commission is using what it learned in February to set down rules for the remainder of the stations that complete the transition in June.
AskMen.com	No More TV For Millions More than 2 million households are in danger of seeing their major broadcast TV channels disappear into a fuzz of static when analog service ends Friday, according to surveys.
Home Theater February 7, 2008 Mark Fleischmann	Cable Nets Hit FCC on Dual Channels Will dual digital and analog versions of local broadcast TV stations push small cable networks out of cable systems? That's what some cable networks fear. And they're voicing their fear by suing the Federal Communications Commission.
Home Theater February 11, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	Who Will Make the DTV Cut? Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission released a list of TV stations that intend go all-digital next week, cutting off analog transmissions.
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InternetNews November 20, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Smartphone Sales Up 50% Smartphone unit sales almost tripled from 2004 to 2005, and increased by 50 percent in the first half of 2006 over 2005. But is anybody really using them for anything else but talking?
Home Theater June 5, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	DTV Transition One Week Away On June 12, 2009, more than half of the nation's television broadcasters will make the final switch to digital signals, shutting off analog forever.
Home Toys June 2003 John Hansen	The Future for Radios is Digital In coming months, AM/FM radio listeners who would like to enjoy higher quality sound will not have to sign up for satellite radio subscriptions or install considerably more expensive radio receivers to relive the sweet sounds of last week's Nora Jones concert on the drive to work.
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Home Theater August 27, 2007	Free Analog Cable Service Urged A coalition of small cable operators is urging Congress to let them provide free analog cable service following the switchover to digital television broadcasting.