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  • Good news: Comcast will have ESPN 3D in time for the World Cup

    Good news: Comcast will have ESPN 3D in time for the World Cup

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Comcast, America's worst company, just announced that it will have indeed have ESPN 3D in time for this year's World Cup. Comcast is the first cable provider to commit to carrying the network (while DirecTV announced the same thing several weeks ago).

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  • Nobody wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down

    Nobody wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like nobody in the TV industry wants the NBCU-Comcast merger to go down. And who could blame them! ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates are afraid that, if the merger goes down, it'll cause the clouds to darken and the streets to run red with the blood of something or other. Basically, they're scared that the merger will put the in a very bad position indeed.

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  • Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because

    Verizon launching 3D on FiOS when it makes sense and not just because

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Amen, Verizon. Amen. Read this bit from Verizon’s statement on 3D. Verizon’s network can easily handle the 3D signal, and we are committed to having a 3D offering later this year, surely in time for the holiday tech buying season, when the penetration of 3D-ready sets increases.  Just as we did with HD, we’ll bring the [...]

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  • Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

    Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Kudos to Comcast for embracing the year 2009. The nation's largest—and quite possibly worst—ISP has finally committed itself to deploying 100 mbps broadband beginning this year. That will make the FCC happy, what with the loft goals it set with its National Broadband Plan. It's also good news for people who know their way around things like Usenet—taps nose like a spy. Will it be affordable, though?

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  • Comcast acknowledges 2005 by slowly rolling out remote DVR scheduling

    Comcast acknowledges 2005 by slowly rolling out remote DVR scheduling

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Do you have a Comcast DVR? I do. I also have a TiVo, which has had remote scheduling since 2005. I can almost schedule recordings remotely to my Comcast DVR. Not yet, but almost – it’s not available in Boston yet, apparently. If you have a Comcast DVR, check out www.comcast.net/mydvr/ to see if the service has been switched on in your area.

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  • Comcast settles bandwidth throttling lawsuit for $16 million. That’s 4 hours of revenue.

    Comcast settles bandwidth throttling lawsuit for $16 million. That’s 4 hours of revenue.

    Posted on December 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Whoever says the legal system in this country is broken, well, you're right. Comcast was caught tampering with its customers' packets two years ago. It bitched and moaned like nobody's business, earning itself no friends. The Federal Communications Commission sanctioned the gigantic corporation in what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Big deal. A class action lawsuit was filed, which was just settled for $16 million. Comcast raked in $34.3 billion in revenue in 2008, meaning that this settlement amounts to four hours of revenue. That's right: four hours. Take that, corporate America!

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  • Clearwire raises an additional $1.5B to continue building its nationwide WiMAX network

    Clearwire raises an additional $1.5B to continue building its nationwide WiMAX network

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Sprint, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks (to name a few) continue to bet big on Clearwire’s WiMAX nationwide wireless network. The foursome have just pumped an additional $1.494 billion into Clearwire’s coffer, with another $50 million coming from Intel and $20 million from Eagle River Holdings. CHA-CHING. More specifically, Sprint, which owns 51 [...]

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  • Comcast responds to FCC’s Net Neutrality proposals: Slow down, partner, let’s talk about this

    Comcast responds to FCC’s Net Neutrality proposals: Slow down, partner, let’s talk about this

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    My God in Heaven! It's been about four hours since the FCC announced its intention to add two more pillars to its idea of Net Neutrality: one, ISPs should not be allowed to wily nilly permit/disallow traffic on their networks (non-discrimination); and two, traffic management should be done is as transparent a manner as possible, so you don't wind up with people discovering that their software is being tampered with, without their knowledge or consent, after the fact. I don't know about yous guys (not a typo), but that seems pretty reasonable to me. And if you disagree, then you're probably a high-ranking executive at Comcast.

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  • Comcast plans to take On Demand Online mobile

    Comcast plans to take On Demand Online mobile

    Posted on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Yesterday, cable behemoth, Comcast, announced plans to make its emerging On Demand Online service available to cable subscribers on their mobile devices in the near future. At first glance, this news seems a bit odd. However, Comcast has recently begun to offer consumers wireless Internet access in select areas across the country as a result of [...]

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  • Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide

    Comcast to rape subs even more by raising cable modem rental fee to $5 nationwide

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Apparently Comcast is in dire financial straights. If America's largest cable provider doesn't raise the cable modem rental fee to $5 from $3, it will not be able to roll out the faster Internet service, DOCSIS 3.0, and the executives won't be able to get new trousers. Sure, the provider had enough cash to build a massive skyscraper and an impressive HD video wall in Philadelphia, but if you want faster Internet, some folks are going to have to pay more. It's probably a good idea to point out that you can save a lot of money by purchasing your own cable modem.

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  • What is Comcast going to do with all its money?

    What is Comcast going to do with all its money?

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Do you have Comcast stock? Are you concerned with all the money the company has in its coffers? Yes, that sounds ludicrous, being concerned that a company has a lot of money on hand, but the fear is that Comcast could be ramping up for a big media buy, something no one wants to see.

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  • Guess why the big ISPs have refused broadband stimulus money

    Guess why the big ISPs have refused broadband stimulus money

    Posted on August 14, 2009 | No Comments
    There's two ways to look at the story that many of the country's biggest ISPs have refused government stimulus money for broadband infrastructure investment. One, the ISPs patently don't need the money, and are more than capable of delivering broadband to as many Americans as possible with their own capital. Two, the ISPs could use the money, but they'd prefer not to accept it lest they be beholden to all sorts of government-imposed restrictions, one of which relates to net neutrality.

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