Author: SacBee — Technology

Converter boxes let analog TV sets pick up digital signals.Today marks the historic, nationwide transition to all-digital television. Touted as a milestone date in TV history, the day also is likely to bring confusion, with nearly 3 million U.S. households and perhaps 60,000 area homes unprepared for the changeover. Here…

The nationwide transition from analog to digital TV is set for Friday. Most people – including those with cable or satellite service, a digital receiver or an analog-to-digital converter box – are ready. But some are not, and others will have either poor or no reception after the switch. Here’s…

Jane Santoni, an AT&T employee, joins other pickets Wednesday at Watt Avenue and El Camino Avenue to protest the lack of a contract.Jane Santoni, an AT&T employee, joins other pickets Wednesday at Watt Avenue and El Camino Avenue to protest the lack of a contract. The protesters brought a giant…

Federal Communications Commission representatives will be at Placer County Library branches today and Friday to provide information about converter boxes, antennas, converter box coupons and other issues related to the transition from analog to digital television reception. FCC representatives will be at the Auburn Branch Library, 350 Nevada St., from…

Broadband carried SureWest Communications to a 19 percent jump in first-quarter revenue, the Roseville-based company said Wednesday. Revenue in the first three months of 2009 grew to $60.9 million, compared with $51.3 million in the first quarter of 2008. Much of the gain came from the broadband sector. Revenue soared…

WASHINGTON – In a high-tech shift accelerated by the recession, the number of U.S. households opting for cell phones only has for the first time surpassed those that just have traditional land lines. It is the freshest evidence of the growing appeal of wireless phones. Twenty percent of households had…