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Video Wall at Comcast Building Draws Tourist Attention - Massive high resolution screen dominates lobby (broadbandreports.com)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:21:35 GMT

Comcast employees recently moved into a massive skyscraper in Philadelphia, a move designed to bring all of the company s employees together for a more streamlined and productive business. The impressive building is also drawing the attention of customers and tourists with features such as a massive video wall which plays along the entire width of the lobby. The video wall is a 10-million-pixel...

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Comcast and Others Invest In WiMax Startup Cartiza (Moco News)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:06:46 GMT

Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ) Interactive Capital, the venture arm of Comcast, has invested an undisclosed amount in a seed round of Cartiza Networks , a Boston-based stealth WiMax startup...the seed round was a big $12.6 million, and investors include Comcast Interactive Capital, Prism VentureWorks and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), according to this story . Not sure...

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Will Comcast Ban Me For Streaming? (IT Professionals)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:02:17 GMT

Considering the fact that this is merely a test, myself opting to do a test Ustream.tv broadcast over the my Comcast connection leaves me wondering where Comcast will decide to draw the line. See, I used to create a number of creative how-to YouTube videos designed to help Linux newbies overcome the hurdles that some might face starting out. It took one minor tweak, but I had the audio...

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Comcast Music Choice vs. XM Radio Web Sites (MSDN Blogs)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:33:00 GMT

... of symphonies) and one that plays full-length pieces that may be more complex). At home I have Comcast's Music Choice that has two similar stations. Because I have accounts with both, I get access to their web sites. Now that I'm out of the office (and have headphones) I've spent a lot of time listening to both. I've come to the conclusion that, content-wise, Comcast and XM are about...

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Tv Cable Special Comcast (Cable TV Promotions)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT

Tv Cable Special Comcast Special Comcast Cable Promotions Give You More Services for Less Cost Because most people deal with Comcast Cable only for their cable TV service, the . Cable TV through Comcast is renowned for its quality and selection. There . However, though Comcast is the nation's leading cable TV company, it also . The current Comcast promotions...

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Get Cable Tv (Cable TV Promotions)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:45:00 GMT

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Illinois, There Is a Lot of Work To Do (Crazy Politico's Rantings)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:10:00 GMT

So, I'm doing the morning news thing, and see a headline on Comcast's home page for the " Best Places to Raise a Family ". It links to a Forbes Real Estate article that used various criteria to determine the 20 best counties in the US to raise your kids. Crime, school performance, etc. were all considered. Two things stood out to me, the county I was raised in, Waukesha, Wi. is number 8 on the...

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False advertising claim over broadband speed stayed (43(B)log)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Hart v. Comcast of Alameda, 2008 WL 2610787 (N.D. Cal.) Hart sued Comcast for unfairly discriminating against peer-to-peer filesharing applications, in violation of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act, California false advertising law, and other laws. The court stayed the case using the primary jurisdiction doctrine, which applies when an initial decision should be made by a relevant agency...

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Tour de France 2008: How To Watch Live On The Web (Silicon Alley Insider)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT

For cycling fans, it's that time again. Time to make sure your cable package includes Comcast's Versus network -- nee OLN -- for the Tour de France . Or, just sign up and cancel in two weeks when the tour is over. With good reason: Versus' coverage of the Tour de France is good enough to draw even casual fans of the sport. (Question: is there a better play-by-play man in any sport than Paul...

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Find Comcast Customer Service Phone Number (Cable TV Promotions)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Find Comcast Customer Service Phone Number Find out more about Comcast Customer Service Phone Number Deals Click Here. . The cable TV service is the one feature that people are most familiar with . Fortunately, Comcast can provide you with the most recent state of the art cable TV service and Internet access, along with a home phone line with money . Comcast Customer Service...

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Comcast restructuring eliminates a division (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Comcast Corp. has eliminated one of its five operating divisions in a restructuring of its cable business. About 120 jobs will be lost in Michigan.

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GMGM On Washington Post Live (Japers' Rink)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:00 GMT

George McPhee's media tour continued today with a stop by Comcast Sportsnet's Washington Post Live. It's definitely worth watching, though this clip is only a portion of the segment which featured McPhee, who went on to discuss Sergei Fedorov, Brooks Laich, Joe Finley and others:

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internet connection with comcast (UMPC Buzz)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:29 GMT

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BeaconEquity.com Issues TraderNotes on SNDK, QBIK, FWLT, YHOO, CMCSA, TZOO, HBAN, LBAS (SBWire Press Releases)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:58 GMT

Today's TraderNotes include: SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK), Cubic Energy Inc. (OTCBB: QBIK), Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT), Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA), Travelzoo Inc. (Nasdaq: TZOO), Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (Nasdaq: HBAN) and Location Based Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: LBAS)

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ANALOG MEDIUM JUNE 2008 (Analog Medium)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:03:00 GMT

ANALOG MEDIUM JUNE 2008 META Wolfman's Got Nards / RELAX Arcade Invader / Power Nerd FRESH! Coming Attractions: Rob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex (2009) Coming Attractions: Dario Argento's Giallo (2009) Coming Attractions: Death Race (2008) Godfrey Ho Richard Donner Wolfman's Got Nards Comcast On Demand is Friendly to Zombies AM Scrape - June Part I Bizarro Monday: Aphex Twin Spectrogram Bizarro...

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Shift To SDV Leaving Some CableCARD Owners Stranded - Despite promises that adapters would be made available.... (broadbandreports.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:23:14 GMT

Like Comcast , Time Warner Cable is migrating to switched digital video (SDV) in order to conserve bandwidth on their network. Unfortunately for customers in Kansas City, the company is upgrading to SDV before the technology has been modified to work properly with CableCARDs, so users of third party set-tops (like TiVo) are being told to downgrade to Time Warner Cable boxes. The Kansas City...

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Vid-Biz: Women, Comcast, IPTV (NewTeeVee)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:08:35 GMT

ABC.com Viewers Mostly Women; it must be the McDreamy effect — a whopping 85 percent of the network site’s overall audience is female. (Silicon Alley Insider) Comcast Invests in Cartiza Networks; amount of seed investment in the developer of WiMax equipment for mobile broadband data, video and voice services not disclosed. (Multichannel News) IPTV Companies Alice, Kassena [...]

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How Much Bandwidth Do We Really Need? - Plenty, as long as storage keeps getting cheaper and content gets better.... (broadbandreports.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:39:31 GMT

Telephony Online asks the simple but highly contentious question: how much bandwidth does the American home really need? The question was raised again recently when Comcast and Verizon began offering 50Mbps tiers in some markets. For an individual user those speeds may seem excessive, but for an entire home it's quickly going to become commonplace. The piece notes that customer desire to download...

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Comcast Expands Switched Digital Video Trials - Now tinkering with the technology in Minneapolis and St. Paul (broadbandreports.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:28:11 GMT

It appears that Comcast is expanding their tests of switched digital video (SDV) in two additional markets -- Minneapolis and St. Paul. SDV frees up bandwidth on cable systems by holding unwatched channels at the edge router, instead of transmitting all channels, regardless of whether they're in use, to your set-top box. Comcast is already using Cisco for a SDV trial in Cherry Hill,...

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More 2008 PSU kickoff times, TV announced (William F. Yurasko)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Yesterday, more kickoff times and television assignments ( Intercollegiate Athletics ) were announced for the 2008 Penn State football season. Are you surprised that the games with Coastal Carolina and Temple are noon kickoffs on Big11Ten Network (BTN)? Hopefully, BTN and Arlandria Comcast will have its acts together by then so I can watch those games from the comfort of my couch. My trips to...

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