competition

Verizon has recently surpassed Comcast for the number of HD channels in it's lineup.

They added 39 new channels to its Verizon FiOS TV lineup in Maryland and Virginia with 19 new high-definition channels including a Big Ten college sports network and 20 new multicultural content stations.

The additional channels bring Verizon’s total lineup to more than 540 high-definition options for viewers that include at least 49 HD channels and more than 500 HD video-on-demand titles offered each month.

BURLINGTON, N.J. and BEIJING, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (Amex: FEP), a world leader in handheld electronic
spelling and dictionary products, and Beijing 100e Science and Technology Ltd, the largest online English learning platform in China, today jointly announced
that the preliminary rounds of Franklin's SpellEvent, the first and only worldwide English spelling competition for young English as a Foreign Language
(EFL) students, will be held in China in 2009, with an internet round to be sponsored by Beijing 100e.

Webware discusses the soon to be released Flickr Video service. It does some analysis on what Flickr Video needs to do to be competitive. Included in the analysis is a recommendation that they adopt a concept similar to Viddler's video embedded tagging functions.

Comcast is beginning to feel the pressure of competition from Verizon. Yesterday, the company sued the FCC over a rule enacted in December that bars it from making a major cable acquisition.