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Michael S. Willner spent his entire career in the cable television industry. He co-founded Insight Communications in 1985 and served as its CEO, a director and vice chairman of the board until the company was sold to Time Warner Cable in February, 2012.

As a young boy in Miami, Florida, Michael had a fascination with the television business at a very early age. He often rode his bicycle to the local NBC affiliate after school where the staff allowed him to help out in the studio while they produced and aired a live children's puppet show and the local news. Michael began his career in 1974 as the program director and news reporter for a small suburban New York cable system after graduating from the Boston University College of Communications. Soon after, he shifted his focus to general management and eventually became the chief operating officer of Vision Cable Communications, a cable company owned by a division of Newhouse Newspapers.

After starting Insight Communications, Michael quickly developed his hands-on style of management as CEO. He is a firm believer in open, honest communication. He personally ensured that employees and customers were always well-informed and had input and influence over important Company decisions. This commitment led to a secondary career - that of a leading man in a number of Insight television commercials in which he comfortably played himself with a great sense of self-deprecating humor.

Michael also became very active in industry affairs and has been one of cable's most active and effective ambassadors on Capitol Hill, testifying regularly before Congress on industry issues and pending legislation. He has served two consecutive terms as chairman of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the cable industry's trade lobby and currently served on its executive committee for many years. Michael also served as chairman of the board of the Cable Center from 2007 through 2011. He served on the executive committee of CableLabs; on the board of directors of C-SPAN, and the Walter Kaitz Foundation.

A recipient of the NCTA's 2004 Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership and a 2005 inductee into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, Michael has yet to achieve his greatest goal of winning an Emmy for his leading role in Insight's commercials.

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RIM's QNX OS to run Android apps

BlackBerrys Said to Get Android Apps [Bloomberg]

Bloomberg reports that Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind Blackberry, is expecting to be able to run apps for Google's Android operating system on certain Blackberry models next year.

RIM recently announced that new models released in early 2012 will run its new operating system, named QNX. RIM hopes that QNX with help it stay relevant in the quickly evolving mobile device market. Apple and Google offer many times more apps than RIM and are widely perceived as being more current with their app selections.

One way QNX may be able to stem RIM's revelancy problem is by adding Android app compatibility. With QNX, Blackberry users will have access to the 250,000 apps on the Android Market. That's roughly six times more than RIM's App World currently offers.

The Android app player rumored to be available on RIM's smartphones is also being added to RIM's tablet offering, the PlayBook.

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