Over a year after their Southern neighbors, Canadians are finally getting their hands on the magical iPhone. But Rogers Communications, the only carrier with a contract to sell the phone, has a data plan that makes AT&T; look positively philanthropic. A $75 a month plan comes with a mandatory 3-year [...]

Kara Swisher is inteviewing Tom Rogers, CEO of TiVo (and CEO with the best pirate name.) Kara: Why not TiVo tech in TVs, powering everything? Rogers: Biggest reason is that TVs already have tiny margins. Building them into TVs makes it hard to drive the same pricing. What we are [...]

At long last, the SDV dongles that TiVo promised would arrive this year from Motorola and Cisco have been submitted to CableLabs for formal testing. For those unfamiliar, these little devices allow for two way communication between CableCard boxes and Cable Companies, so that only the needed programming data is [...]