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• Cablevision Flips Live TV To Laptops With Microsoft Silverlight

  Cablevision Systems is running a limited trial of an application that lets subscribers watch live TV on PCs and Macs over a home Wi-Fi network, using Microsoft's Silverlight media-delivery technology.
   

• Nation's First CTO Chopra Exiting

  The White House confirmed Friday that Aneesh Chopra was exiting as the country's first chief technology officer.
   

• Nearly 67 Million Tablets Sold Globally in 2011: Strategy Analytics

  Despite record sales of Apple's iPad, the Android platform had a record 39% share of the 26.8 million tablet units sold worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics.
   

• Markey, Barton Want Decision from FTC on Google Privacy Policy

  Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) have officially asked the FTC for a decision on whether Google's new policy of treating Web browsers across its products as a single user violates its settlement with the FCC over privacy policy issues.
   

• CNN's Florida Debate Delivers 5.4 Million Viewers

  CNN's Florida debate on Thursday averaged 5.4 million total viewers, besting the network's last debate on Jan. 19 but drawing a smaller audience than the most recent debates on Jan. 23 (NBC) and Jan. 16 (Fox News Channel).
   

• Review: Starz's 'Spartacus: Vengeance'

  Spartacus: Vengeance, with its juxtaposition of florid speech and more primal human callings, and storytelling, melding new and seasons past, is a guilty pleasure on Friday nights.
   

• Peachtree TV, Dish in Retrans Spat

  Peachtree TV, the Atlanta independent television station owned by Turner Broadcasting System, went dark to Dish Network customers on Jan. 26 after the two companies could not reach a retransmission consent agreement.
   

• NAB Says Time Warner Cable Q4 Earnings Tell Retrans Story

  The National Association of Broadcasters took aim at Time Warner Cable's fourth-quarter earnings Friday in the ongoing battle between the industries over retransmission-consent payments.
   
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