by announcing that it would cap residential broadband users to 250 gb in downloads per month comcast last week made a tacit admission that it can charge users 0.17aper gigabytea43month for the service cover its operating costs and still make a profit. if comcast is happy to charge these rates to its heaviest users the people who put the biggest strain on its residential broadband infrastructure wh...
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comcast which has amazingly bad pr chops has done it again. comcast to place a cap on internet downloads headlines the nytimes story. an excerpt until now comcast had not defined excessive use but it had contacted customers who were using the heaviest amount of broadband and asked them to curb usage. most do so willingly the company said. the ones who do not curb their usage receive a second n...
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filed under business models economyin a continued trend of restrictions from comcast cable theyve recently announced that they will soon be cracking down on excessive use of their internet service. starting october 1st residential users who download andor upload more than 250 gb of data each month will be asked to curb their usage. if that usage is exceeded a second time they face account terminat...
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prison break returns to your screens this upcoming monday september 1st. the brand new season will see dr. sara tancredi return even after uh a rather severe case of decapitation. catch up before the new season starts and go behind the scenes with fancast clips and full episodes. or better yet watch our prison break clips and email me the answer to the question below for your chance to win a dvd ...
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steve gillmor comments on techcrunch today that comcasts caps on bandwidth may finally drive people from the land of torrents and to the land of streaming. here while i agree that the promise of streaming is long overdue there is the one area that streaming still cant fill the mobile viewer. i dont mean folks on mobile phones although with the growth of 3g in the americas europe and asia laugh at ...
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read the full article for examples of how to get to 250 gigabytes a month starting october 1 customers of comcasts residential data services will have an invisible barrier on their monthly data usage. under the new guidelines of comcasts acceptable use policy announced thursday that cap will be set at 250 gigabytes per month per account. users who go over the limit will get a courtesy call from...
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microsoft just made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in move networks a startup that helps companies offer highdefinition video on the web. the funding should help promote move networks integration with microsofts silverlight platform. the american fork utahbased startup says its technology encodes highquality video and cuts down on buffering delays. microsoft meanwhile has found some hi...
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yesterday the fcc released their report on their decision against comcasts secret degredation of bittorrent protocol traffic. the basic content of this ruling has been known since early august. it nominally states that comcast violated federal rules for reasonable network management. network neutrality proponents have been quick to applaud the fccs ruling. certainly this action violates a hand...
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it looks like internet service provider comcast is moving forward with plans to reduce connection speeds for its heaviest users. senior vice president mitch bowling told bloomberg yesterday that certain comcast customers will see their internet speeds slow for periods of 10 to 20 minutes. these plans are a response to the ongoing legal and pr debacle surrounding the revelation that comcast throttl...
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the big buzz today in tv technology is the announcement by yahoo and intel of the widget channel a tv application framework that will allow consumers to play around with internet applications while watching tv or viewing video on other devices. based on a set of technologies that make up the yahoo widget engine and a new family of intel systemonchip media processors for internetconnected ce devic...
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would you watch a tv channel devoted entirely to job opportunities thats the question that the folks at the chicagobased job search television network jstn would like to know. nick dorado account supervisor for jstn said that the multimedia job search network is looking to expand its daily twohour broadcast powered by comcast into a 24hour job ops channel. we have been working hard to expand our n...
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comcast have bought newsletter publisher daily candy for 125 million. founded in 2000 to provide shopping tips to young urban women in new york the company now publishes 3 daily and 8 weekly newsletters reaching 2.5 million subscribers in 11 american cities and london. the ny times reports comcasts interactive media division has embarked on a buying spree recently striking deals like last years pu...
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random pet peeves of the day that may eventually gel into some kind of theme netflix is talking about charging extra for hidef movies. though i suppose its inevitable im not happy about it. i came really close to canceling my netflix subscription awhile back because i wasnt watching dvds fast enough and so was losing money on the monthly subscription. what convinced me to stay with them was the...
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women are beautiful. street photographer garry winogrand stated this in 1975 and hes absolutely right. online marketeers also agree with him and they dont leave any chance unused to make some money out of their online presence. ask glam media the publishing company that focuses on women and recently acquired ad agencies in the uk and germany. but the big women marketingrelated news of today is t...
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creo que nunca habaa oado hablar de dailycandy y sin embargo comcast lo ha comprado por 125 millones de dalares esta es una de las grandezas de internet al menos en estados unidos. dailycandy es una web especializada en informacian para mujeres sobre temas como moda belleza alimentacian cultura viajes dicha informacian se organiza por canales para distintas ciudades de usa ya que realizan revisio...
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the 10th annual 10th anniversary 2008 healdsburg jazz festival festival program available for download the 10th annual healdsburg jazz festival was may 30 june 8 2008 we celebrated a decade of great jazz with a fantastic lineup of new and familiar names for this 10th annual 10th anniversary healdsburg jazz festival including charles lloyd zakir hussein cedar walton charlie haden billy ...
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seems that comcast was intentionally throttling downloads for torrents streams of data from multiple peertopeer sources. besides making downloads take artificially long to complete this violates the new net neutrality laws. from the article fcc holds nations second largest broadband provider broke network neutrality principles when it throttled p2p traffic from bittorrent. fcc rejects comcast co...
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the federal communications commission this morning took the expected step of passing a ceaseanddesist order for internet service provider comcast which has persistently blocked or throttled peertopeer traffic using the bittorrent protocol on its networks. mostly symbolic the rule will likely be overturned on a court appeal as the fcc has not been given formal authority to regulate how isps handle...
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...you know you want it.... .....well find room somehow for the wires for it....c the system is not complete until all wireways are packed.......
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when blogging first started to get some serious steam i remember the rule of thumb being that you should try to post at least once a week. as blogging continued to grow the stakes were raised. a good rule of thumb right now might be to blog daily or at the very least a couple of times a week. its amazing to see how quickly things change and its equally impressive to see how many new blogs come...
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comcast cable company is giving away free nintendo wiis to new subscribers who sign up for one of their eligible triple play packages for two years. the promotion runs through august 17th. im pretty happy with my tv and internet as is...we dumped comcast about 2 years ago because we didnt like their prices...and since we already have a wii well itd be kind of silly for us to make the move. st...
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engadget.com is reporting that comcast is having a special where if you become a triple play subscriber cable phone and internet you can get a free wii. sounds really interesting but think twice before you jump on that deal. weve seen our fair share of subscripti ondependen t giveaways in the past in the form of eee pcs and even the rare ps3 offer but handing out a wii with cable service stri...
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