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Comcast Agrees The Purchase Of UK’s Sky TV
Comcast Agrees The Purchase Of UK’s Sky TV You may not have been aware of it, but companies such as Fox and Sky have effectively been accepting bids over the last 6-months for their purchase. With Rupert Murdoch owning a significant portion of Sky, it was believed for a while that…
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Comcast End Bidding For Fox But Might Now Try To Buy Sky
Comcast End Bidding For Fox But Might Now Try To Buy Sky Earlier this week, after many months of bidding and battling, Comcast effectively gave up their pursuit for the purchase of Fox. With Disney now in prime position to complete the deal, it just hasn’t worked out for them.…
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Wi-Fi and Broadband Access Ranked Most Important in Apartment Renter Survey
According to the most recent survey conducted by research firm Precision Sample, the most important feature an apartment renter looks for is Wi-Fi and broadband Internet access. It is ranked higher than other amenities including in-room laundry washer and dryer machines as well as a furnished kitchen. Of those surveyed,…
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Comcast Want To Offer Discounts For People Who Share Their Online Activity
How much do you like a discount? With the topic of using your internet activity to provide “personalized” services arguing against those who believe that what you do online is private, companies and governments are still trying to determine what is considered acceptable for companies to use. Comcast has now…
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NBC Universal Patents Pirate-Hunting Tech
NBC Universal has filed a patent for a new technology designed to track and collect data on online pirates. The tech uses a high-volume file sharing swarms detection system to determine popular torrents and gather data on those downloading and sharing those files. The patent filing, entitled “Early Detection of…
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Comcast Demanded $60,000 For Not Installing Internet
Silicon Valley is known as the place to be for startups in the technology business, and with companies looking to move there next to some of the biggest names in the business, it comes as no surprise that companies are often after the best internet they can get. SmartCar initially…
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Xfinity User Creates Bot to Tweet Comcast Whenever His Internet Speed Drops
An industrious Comcast Xfinity customer, disgruntled over poor internet speeds, has created a bot that auto-Tweets Comcast whenever his broadband drops below advertised speeds. Redditer AlekseyP used a Raspberry Pi to monitor his internet speed, checking every hour, which sends a Tweet to the official Comcast Twitter account every time…
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Comcast CEO Calls For an End to Unlimited Data
Of all the major internet service providers, the most universally derided is Comcast and its outdated data caps, a policy that the company’s internal memos reveal is a cynical marketing ploy. Now, the CEO of Comcast, Brian Roberts, has spoken to Business Insider about its data policy, with Roberts advocating…
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Comcast Internal Memos Admit Data Caps Don’t Improve Network Performance
In a not so surprising twist, it looks like the reason consumers have been sold on data caps in the past has all been lies. According to leaked Comcast documents, customer service representatives are not to tell customers that the data cap program is for congestion management. Instead, the data caps…
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$5 Service Will Cancel Your Comcast in 5 Minutes
Have you ever suffered the pain of trying to cancel your internet service? The endless mashing of buttons and following horrible instructions via the IVR to get to an operator, since there is no easy option for “cancel your service.” Sure, you can change your service or upgrade it —…
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Comcast VP Has No Idea Why it Caps Data at 300GB
Comcast, notorious for terrible customer service and arbitrary restrictions, does offer the fastest internet speeds of all the nationwide ISP in the US – Comcast Xfinity has an average download speed of 104Mbps and upload speed of 12.7Mbps – but the biggest bone of contention amongst customers is the 300GB…
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Comcast VP Claims Data Caps are Business Policy & Not Technical Necessity
Many of you with home internet plans may have to deal with monthly data caps. For some this cap can be a real pain as a full household streaming and consuming content can easily rack up the gigabytes. While ISPs claim many different reasons to justify their caps, one common excuse…
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EA and Comcast Team up to Bring New Streaming Service
There are a lot of streaming services that bring games to players on their TV. We all know the popular NVIDIA Grid and the company’s constant attempt to make it more popular. Microsoft and Sony are attempting to bring such services to their consoles too, but they still have a…
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Comcast Attempt to Consume Time Warner Cable Fails
Comcast has at last given up on their attempt to merge with rival Time Warner Cable. Since the announcement of the merger early last year, the two largest cable providers in the United States have struggled against stiff consumer opposition. The final blow was struck as officials in the Federal…
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Google Said to Have Regular Meetings with White House Officials
The Wall Street Journal apparently got their hands on some visitor logs and emails linking high-ranking Google employees, including Eric Schmidt, meeting with White House officials 230 times across two terms, adding up to once a week meet-ups in the last four years. Some of the meetings also look to…
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