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Online Video: ABC Signs Up with Veoh
Compete submits: Things are heating up in online video and it’s not just the nice summer weather. In May, Disney-owned DIS ABC made its first public move to embrace online distribution by signing up with Veoh.com. The move could be seen as a defensive play against Hulu, the...
Adelphia Founder and Son's Prison Terms Reduced
By Emily Chasan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge reduced the prison sentences of Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son Timothy after an appeals court threw out one count of their convictions. The prison sentence of John Rigas, 83, was reduced...
Vitrue acquires UGENmedia for undisclosed terms
Social media marketer Vitrue says it has acquired competitor UGENmedia. The deal's terms were not disclosed.Atlanta-based Vitrue, which includes Comcast and Turner among its backers, says the deal will enhance its ability to offer turnkey social media solutions while providing a strategic New York presence.Founded in 2006 by former...
Comcast-owned Fandango acquires Disney's Movies.com
Fandango - a Comcast-owned film listings and ticket site - has acquired Disney's Movies.com. The deal - which was completed for undisclosed terms - will see Movies.com content incorporated into Fandango, while Movies.com user accounts will no longer be available. The move marks Fandango's first acquisition, reports the Hollywood...
Google Has Best Reputation in U.S., Airlines Fall: Survey
By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Google Inc's famous employee perks -- from providing "nap pods" for a quick break during the day to allowing engineers to spend 20 percent of their work time on side projects that may spark new ideas --...
FCC Sides With Cable in Verizon Dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission voted on Friday to bar Verizon Communications Inc VZ VZ from marketing to customers to talk them out of a decision to switch their phone service to cable, a source at the agency said...
Tech giants form WiMAX patent alliance - Rumour
Six telecoms and tech firms are partnering to share WiMAX technology patents, in a bid to curb royalty fees that could hamper the adoption of the standard, reports the Wall Street Journal. Cisco Systems, Intel, Samsung, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are expected to present the Open Patent Alliance today...
What Classifies Web Video as HD Quality?
Dan Rayburn submits: While there continues to be a lot of talk in the industry about HD quality web video, to date, I still have yet to figure out what classifies web video as HD quality? As an industry we are using the word HD to clarify video as...
Will TiVo Become Software Inside Your TV?
Russ Mitchell submits: Might Tivo TIVO one day be embedded as a piece of software in your television set? The company is rapidly moving in that direction. The DVR pioneer's recent linkup with Comcast Cable CMCSA is putting software in New Englanders' cable boxes that would enable Tivo's...
Comcast Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Comcast Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Comcast Corporation Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Comcast Corporation Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
A Counterintuitive Way to Increase Your Churn Rate
A Counterintuitive Way to Increase Your Churn RateComcast ServiceComcast has the most incompetent customer service reps and they are so slow to fix problems. They really suck!!!!!!!!!! I hate that the options are so limited in certain areas that you are forced to use them especislly for broadband internet. Someone...
A Counterintuitive Way to Increase Your Churn Rate
Comcast has a lot of enemies these days, many who will go to extreme measures to express their dissatisfaction (let us not forget the tale of the little old lady who took a hammer to her local office.) Their most abhorrent offense of late: continuing to form exclusivity agreements with...
Comcast Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Comcast Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
When Bad Customer Service Leads the Elderly to Violence
Mona Shaw, a 75-year old woman from Manassas Virginia, received a three-month suspended sentence, was fined $345, and was issued a year-long restraining order for going at her local Comcast payment center with a hammer. In August, she and her husband waited all day for a Comcast technician to come to their home and...
Comcast Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Comcast Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Wideband via Cable
If broadband is good, wideband must be better; right? Well, maybe. Yesterday an AP story carried on Forbes.com reported that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts demoed a cable modem providing downloads at the blazing speed on 150 megabits per second. Comcast’s standard offer around here offers only 6 megabits today...
Wideband via Cable
If broadband is good, wideband must be better; right? Well, maybe. Yesterday an AP story carried on Forbes.com reported that Comcast CEO Brian Roberts demoed a cable modem providing downloads at the blazing speed on 150 megabits per second. Comcast's standard offer around...
BNET Daily Dispatch: Yahoo, Doral, Comcast, and KFC
Yahoo bought Right Media, an online advertising exchange, for about $680 million, in a move to bolster Yahoo's reach in advertising to social network sites. Yahoo hopes the acquisition will help it fend off Google after it bought premium ad network DoubleClick for $3.1 billion earlier this month. Doral...
Comcast Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Comcast Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
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Cable and Other Subscription Programming: 515210
