Tag: COMCAST

On Tuesday, the FCC and the Department of Justice finally approved a major merger between Comcast and NBC, after more than a year of debate and what federal regulators called the most acute scrutiny a media merger had ever faced. The deal gives Comcast control over NBC Universal's TV and movie subsidiaries, in exchange for about $13.75 billion in cash and assets. Comcast will own 51-percent of ...

Despite a weak economy and more online options for viewers, satellite and cable operators will, once again, increase their prices in 2011. According to The Hollywood Reporter, analyst Craig Moffett predicts that most of the average price increases will be in the mid-to-low single-digit percentages. If you're a glass-half-full kind of person, these increases will, for the most part, be smaller ...

Comcast has used CES as an opportunity to announce that it is finally embracing online streaming content in a big way. While most other cable companies (and many content providers) are fighting against the rising tide of streaming media, Comcast has decided to jump in head first. At some point later this year, Comcast will begin offering live TV streams to iPads and Android tablets within the ...

Al Franken thinks Net neutrality is "the most important free speech issue of our time," and he seems determined to fight for it. On Saturday, the Democratic senator delivered a blistering floor speech, in which he criticized the new online regulations proposed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. On Tuesday, the FCC will vote on both the regulations and a proposed merger between NBC and Comcast. ...

The National Broadband Plan, Net neutrality and consumer advocates around the country took a major blow today when a federal appeals court ruled that the FCC had no authority to regulate how service providers manage network traffic. The ruling was handed down in favor of Comcast following a 2008 challenge leveled by the FCC against the cable provider for blocking and throttling P2P file-sharing ...

The Augusta National, the home of the annual Masters tournament, celebrates, and strictly adheres to, the ingrained traditions, regulations, and formalities of golf. The event has also overwhelmingly embraced technology in recent years, though, particularly with its 2009 introduction of an incredible, interactive, online viewing experience. According to Engadget, the Masters organization is ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 3-D TVs definitely sound appealing, but consumers have to wonder if replacing their still relatively new flat screens is truly worthwhile, or, for that matter, monetarily feasible. James Cameron has supplied some incentive for those wary, potential 3-D TV shoppers with his recent announcement that a 3-D Blu-ray version of 'Avatar' ...

While many remember Super Bowl XLIII as a frantic and impressive give-and-take battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, others remember something else -- porn. Viewers watching the game on an NBC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona got more than they bargained for when the station accidentally mixed in about 30 seconds of hardcore pornography during the fourth quarter. Now, ...

Kevin Andreyo, an education technology specialist in Reading, PA, came across a startling discovery Monday after vetting himself on the search engine Pipl. Inspired by the PCWorld article "People Search Engines: They know Your Dark Secrets . . . And Tell Anyone," Andreyo searched his e-mail address and found a list that included his Comcast username and password, as well as those for 8,000 other ...

You know those cable price hikes that have been going around lately? Looks like you're not the only one who's a tad upset about it. The Federal Communications Commission has actually come forward to express its concern from the rampant outbreak of cable pay-TV increases, with spokeswoman Mary Diamond proclaiming that "over the last decade, average cable rates have more than doubled, and now ...

As anyone reading this is surely aware, the 'information age' has come with its fair share of visual noise. With Internet, television, and phone companies aggressively competing for market share, the need to install physical equipment in neighborhoods around the country continues to grow. And, in case you hadn't noticed, the delivery mechanisms are ugly as sin. Thankfully, several towns are ...

In a move surely to be embraced by people who love being watched for advertising purposes, AT&T has informed Congress that it would like to monitor the browsing habits of its customers. Their justification for doing so is, in so many words, "Google does it, so why can't we?" This all comes after a Congressional committee began investigating Web-tracking for advertising purposes after ...

When you're Comcast and you have some serious cash to throw at an installation in your new Philadelphia-based Comcast Center, you go all out on a $22 million high-definition video wall, of course. The giant display measures 27 by 87-feet and mashes 10 million pixels across modules linked by a central system that contains 27,000-gigabytes (GB) of info, six DX700 LED digitizers, seven Encore video ...

Beware, Baltimore readers, a couple of crooks in Comcast cable uniforms and with a Comcast van are on the loose. According to police reports, the pair broke into a man's apartment, handcuffed him, and shot him in the stomach. The two men demanded money, though it is unclear if they got away with any. They used their uniforms to gain access to the victim's apartment, from which the victim tried ...

Shortly after hearing TiVo's top dog speak of a "whole home model" to reduce the amount of STBs required for entertaining individuals in various rooms, along comes Time Warner Cable's chief executive talking up some innovation of its own. We'll be frank -- we're not entirely sure what Glenn Britt is getting at here, but through a broken series of quotes, we're led to believe that the carrier is ...