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For Comcast subscribers, some interesting news broke onto the Web just recently. According to the Associated Press, "cable and Internet service provider Comcast Corp. is expanding its online menu with the acquisition of Daily Candy, an electronic newsletter catering to...

On August 1, the FCC concluded that Comcast had violated federal policies. The cable operator was found guilty of interfering with customer’s use of peer-to-peer applications. Comcast still do not find anything wrong with this and still maintain that they are innocence. Comcast have said that their practices are consistent with industry practices; Sena Fitzmaurice said [...]

The following is a statement by Tom Tauke, Verizon executive vice president of public affairs, policy and communications, on the Federal Communications Commission’s vote today on the complaint by third-party organizations against Comcast for allegedly degrading peer-to-peer applications on its network: “Consumers want a quality Internet experience. That requires a combination of indus

Cable giant Comcast is getting into the Nintendo Wii game with an offer that might make you do a double-take.  According to a Comcast press release:Comcast, the nation’s leading residential broadband Internet provider, and video game pioneer, Nintendo, have teamed up to offer an exclusive deal available to new Comcast Triple Play customers. From today until August 17, 2008, those who sign u

Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is a company that Wall Street just loves to hate. Much of the antipathy directed toward the Philadelphia-based cable giant seems... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The ruling, will not include a fine, but will require Comcast to stop blocking or slowing traffic to peer-to-peer sites like BitTorrent. Comcast will also be required to explain to consumers and the commission how it has blocked such traffic in the past, and publicly disclose how it plans to manage its network in the future.Wall Street Journal thinks, "The FCC decision is likely to be challenged

A sharp turn in direction for the United States with the recent FCC majority ruling that Comcast was wrong in “dialing down” or resetting bittorrent connections across their network. The question then becomes, and one that ISP’s, companies, and just about everyone else has to ask themselves is what to do about “bandwidth hogs”. There [...]

July 26th, 2008 by tkarr A bipartisan majority of the Federal Communications Commission has reportedly voted to punish Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, for blocking consumers' access to the open Internet. story here -Mark Thespot-

Not all bloggers are hugely popular, and that is ok, but few if any folks really expect anyone to listen to their general whine about a company when they blog about it. But there you go, Comcast has been busy making comments on people’s blogs who talk about Comcast. We recently shut down our high [...]

he promoter who pressured suppliers of Internet service to block the access the pedofilos contents said in the monday that it will open a process against the Comcast case not if has adjusted to the code of behavior of New York. To the passed month, ISPs as the Verizon Communications, the Sprint, AOL, AT&T and Time Warner Wire had agreed to hindering the traffic in sites that spread infanti

In as little as six months, new rulings in net neutrality may disallow ISPs from blocking or throttling applications and content from their networks. Martin's proposal does not include any fines and only applies to Comcast; however, if accepted it may act as a precedent for other ISPs in the future. The proposal would require Comcast to disclose all network management policies and sanctions agai

Advocates of Net neutrality are preparing to chalk up their first victory following press reports that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has recommended prohibiting cable giant Comcast from blocking Web traffic between peer-to-peer networks. The recommendation, which still requires action from the full commission, could be precedent-setting; all Internet service providers wou

By JOHN DUNBAR, Associated Press Writer (07-11) 04:31 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the

I’m not sure how I ever existed without my HD DVR from Comcast now that I am spoiled by it. Just set it up to record a series and you’re done. You can then watch whatever you want on your TV as your leisure. I simply can’t watch network TV any longer. I love the SCI FI Channel. However, they seemingly have five minute intermissions of commercials. I simply lose focus on whatever I’m

Good news today for both Comcast subscribers and fans of college sports: Comcast will be adding the Big Ten Network to its repertoire starting in Fall of 2008. Avid college football watchers will be able to tune into the exciting...

Rating: -1 Posted By: dakdeal Views: 417 Replies: 0 This could be a regional deal, but check and post for your regions...My sister got a mailer from Comcast California .....On-Demand => Premium Channels => Bollywood on DemandMore Online Coupons from Fatwallet.com.

I know, I know, you heard rumblings that a deal could be close all of last season. Meanwhile, you grew tired of the posturing from both sides and got a dish or switched to RCN because you wanted to see Eric Gordon and D.J. White from the comfort of your living room instead of a [...]

Enlarges the attached images to see the message from the hackers.Comcast, one of the largest Internet service provider in the United States, saw its website hacked last night with a strange message on the screen for all visitors: "KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST sHouTz to VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven '. What is interesting is that it looks like hackers managed to break into servers

Comcast is looking to ramp up its cable technology in order to compete with fiber company's. It has been testing docsis 3.0 a technology that will allow it significantly more bandwidth per node. Comcast is planning to offer 100 megabits in 20 percent of its market by the end of 2010.

They say… this summer is a contest between Iron Man and THE DARK KNIGHT, to see who will come out as the winner. Comcast has a new THE DARK KNIGHT website and it has cool two new video clips. The first one is the new featurette and the second one is about making the Clowns. [...]

I was wondering how long it would take for this to happen. Tweeter declared bankruptcy over a year ago if my memory doesn't fail me. It was only a matter of time before they needed to stop paying licensing fees to name concert venues and focus on their internal problems.Eric Clapton may have played the blues last night, but probably not to mourn the demise of the Tweeter Center. The guitar legen

It's the sort of news that ought to scare the pants off Comcast executives. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed the commission auction off a portion of the 25 megahertz spectrum with a free provision -- meaning that whoever licenses the spectrum must provide internet access to people for free.We won't know whether the FCC will proceed with the idea (the commissioners vote on June 12), but the f

We have an update for you about Comcast, yesterday we reported the news “Comcast Email Hacked: Webmail security issues, comcast.net site is back up” (See Here), well today we want to let you know that the Comcast hijackers did indeed warn the company. We know that these computer hackers took down Comcast’s webmail and homepage [...]

"Starting late yesterday, Comcast users began noticing that Comcast.net had been hacked. More technically, early indications are that someone hacked Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions, changing the authoritative DNS servers for Comcast.net -- rerouting portal visitors to IP addresses in Germany or elsewhere."[via dsl report]

Comcast's subscriber's website was briefly hacked overnight. According to broadbandreports.com, Comcast's site was hacked at roughly 11:00 p.m. eastern. The hackers defaced Comcast's portal with a note saying the hackers had "RoXed" Comcast.

I did a search on the comcast.net search page for Eul21, He is one of the hacker that brought down the comcast.net homepage. and it looks like he has a youtube channel and has been there for over a year. Way to go! Hopefully the Feds and Comcast do not have google search or Eul21 might be screwed. Digg / elul21 Photos. elul21 hasn't yet added photos to their profile. ... elul21's Incoming Shouts.

It looks like it is going to be a very busy day for the Comcast people. Not from the news people but also from the customers that use thier email service. It looks like Comcast has been hacked but it is back online now. If you look up the top word searches on google you will see that the top 7 words have comcast in them. I don't know the damage that hacker did but I am sure that will be surfacing

Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic has announced that they are to launch a new program which will focus on golf. The program will be called Tee Time, and is a 30-minute program; the first show will air on June2. The inaugural show will be a bit of a special one, as it will be entirely dedicated to [...]

Os participantes da rede social Plaxo receberam e-mail avisando sobre a compra da empresa, pelo segundo maior provedor de acesso à internet dos EUA, a Comcast. Prezado membro Plaxo,Estamos entusiasmados com o anúncio de algumas grandes novidades na história da Plaxo. A Plaxo assinou um contrato definitivo** para ser adquirida pela Comcast, o principal provedor de produtos e serviços de

Plaxo, the social network site built around its networked, automatically updating address book service, has announced that it is being acquired by Comcast. According to Plaxo, its brand and operations will still remain independent, its basic service free, and its privacy policy in effect. However, judging from comments posted to Plaxo’s official blog, a majority of [...]

In a coincidence of sorts, 3 different mergers were announced around the same time last week. The popular U.S. based broadcasting company CBS will buy web publisher CNET networks for $1.8 billion. IAC, owners of Ask.com will buy Lexico for $100 million in cash and Comcast will buy Plaxo. The merger with CNet Networks will put [...]

Order DIRECTV today and receive up to $341 in savings! DIRECTV has some of the funnier commercials going right now. One of my favorites is this gem, where cable company executives are trying to figure out how to compete with the Direct TV HD lineup. This commercial is a not-so-thinly-veiled slap at Comcast, who earlier [...]

Comcast buys Plaxo, which is making me really thank everyone that I never really got into plaxo, and while I am a comcast customer, it might be time to bail. Here is the nightmare scenario, comcast knows what I watch, and if I used plaxo it will also know my friends, and they will monitor [...]

A subset of the Gillmor Gang met via telephone this afternoon to debate the $150 - $170 million Comcast acquisition of Plaxo. Listen to Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and me talk about whether this was a smart move for Comcast, or a sucker’s purchase of a company no one in Silicon [...]

After a couple frustrating calls to Comcast without any results I finally figured out the right number to call to get taken off their mailing list! This week alone I have received 7 mailers, only 1 of which was actually addressed to me. The other 6 were for apartments that don’t even exist in our building. Okay so here’s the info. The company who does their mailings is Advance Mailing Systems Northlake,IL (708) 836-0600

So what does a $3.2 Billion investment from Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks get you? By the looks of things, it will be a new mobile broadband company. Today we are hearing that Print and Clearwire are to combine WiMAX businesses, and this will create the new mobile broadband company. The [...]

Other than Time Warner's single-city foray into monthly data caps, consumption-based billing has mostly been little ISPs with little monopolies, and given the market, we thought it'd stay that way. Broadband Reports is, uh, reporting that now Comcast is mulling monthly caps (which Comcast's PR guy confirms, though not the details)—something like 250GB, and then $1.50 for every GB over that. According to their source, the idea has "a lot of momentum" and it'll start rolling out in the next two months. The other part is that they're going to start ramping up DMCA notices to pirate assholes, with a total disconnect if you've gotten four letters in a 12-month period. If this is entering the mix with Comcast's new "protocol agnostic" network management technique (in something closer to En

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Comcast continues to bleed television subscribers, but is making up some of the difference by expanding its high-speed internet and telecom reach. Thats the latest from the cable operator after reporting 1st quarter results this morning. Overall, Comcast lost 57,000 basic television customers, but made up for it in other areas. High speed internet [...]

Comcast (CMCSA) had a very good quarter, and did especially well taking phone customers from its Bell rivals. Revenue was up 14% to 8.389 billion. Operating... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Earlier this month, Judge James B. Zagel became part of the email marketing industry’s history with his ruling on the landmark e360 Prospect vs. Comcast case. In his decision, Zagel dismissed all of e360’s claims outright, while keeping in play Comcast’s countersuit against the company. Ouch. To me, the most fascinating of e360’s four [...]

Comcast said Wednesday it has changed its mind on a joint wireless communication venture with Sprint-Nextel, according to a Reuters report. The service, called Pivot, was begun as a partnership between the cable giant, Sprint, Time Warner, Cox Communications, and Advanced/Newhouse Communications in 2006. It offered a package of ...

The NFL Network is preparing to intensify its ongoing battle with Comcast this summer. Both sides have dug in their heels in an ongoing carriage dispute over the network. The latest salvo comes from the NFL, which is preparing a formal complaint to be filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The complaint will accuse Comcast [...]

The net neutrality debate was bolstered when Comcast got caught blocking peer-to-peer traffic. In response, Comcast said that they had to filter peer-to-peer traffic to prevent a their network from bogging down. The telcos pushed for an FCC investigation, which has been underway, and the results are in! Read the full story here . Is it just me, or is this the perfect test case for net neutrality law?

Managing online traffic can be risky stuff. Just ask Comcast. The cable TV giant came under fire recently when it slowed a "peer-to-peer" transmission of the King James Bible sent as a test by an Associated Press reporter. At two special hearings held by the Federal Communications Commission — one at Harvard and another last week at Stanford — the company was excoriated for delaying peer-to-peer

By: Spacelab Research Staff The Federal Communications Comission held a hearing at Stanford University last week to talk about Net Neutrality, this time in regards to network management. It sounds geeky and boring, but it actually has a huge impact on how we get to view and download content from the Internet. The hearing went down at the Stanford Law School's

The researchers at the University of Colorado discovered that they were able to generate the same type of forged TCP reset packets used by Comcast to block ("delay," according to the cable provider) BitTorrent uploads. During peak traffic periods, the researchers saw TCP reset packets popping up all over the place, which they said were "aimed at any new TCP connection regardless of the application-level protocol." With Comcast having recently announced its intention to adjust its traffic management practices, alarm bells went off. Instead of giving up the practice of using TCP reset packets to manage BitTorrent traffic, it appeared that Comcast was doing the opposite: extending it to cover all sorts of traffic. In an official statement, Comcast said it had yet to make the announced changes

There is still 2 days 23 hours 18 mins and 41 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes! I don’t even know where to start with this one. I’m in an area where I’m kind of stuck with them. DirectTV has been trying [...]

"Have a complaint with cable company Comcast? Don’t bother calling their helpline: Instead write a blog entry or, better still, send a ‘tweet’ or two via Twitter threatening to “expend significant energy over the next three weeks trashing Comcast.” That’s the lesson taught by TechCrunch founder and co-editor Mike Arrington, after his Comcast broadband connection went down for 36 hours."[via zdnet]

Comcast plans to offer a new broadband package that allows up to 50 megabits for downloads and up to 5 megabits for uploads. The new package is scheduled to be rolled out to 20 percent of its markets by the end of the year and 100 percent by 2010. The package will initially cost $150 for consumers.

Do you want Wideband Internet access?  If you live in the Twin Cities, you can get to from Comcast.  They are offering 50mbpsdownload and 5mbps upload, however, it is gonna cost you a whopping $150 a month.  Comcast’s new Internet speed is based on the DOCSIS 3.0 technology. Several web sites are reporting on this [...]

Comcast offers super-fast Internet speeds The largest U.S. cable television operator, said on Wednesday it has started offering a super-fast Internet service that allows customers to download a high-definition movie in 10 minutes. The new premium service was launched in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and marks a leap in connection speeds for Comcast. The new service offers speeds

Comcast announced a deal yesterday with BitTorrent Inc., in which the cable giant agreed to stop throttling the performance of heavy P2P users during peak times, and instead pledged to invest in the bandwidth and technologies to be able to handle that traffic. After months of accusations, denials and foot stomping on the part of users, cable giant Comcast and the peer-to-peer file sharing company

Comcast's P2P Conversion: I'll Believe It When I See ResultsIs Comcast serious about making nice with the "peer to peer" technology crowd? That would seem to be the case given the deal announced yesterday with BitTorrent Inc., in which the cable giant agreed to stop throttling the performance of... Link - Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:00:33 GMT - Feed (2 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: Stocks & Economy

Comcast and BitTorrent Become "Net-Neutral" FriendsComcast (CMCSA), the cable giant, and file sharing web site BitTorrent seem like natural enemies. The cable company wants to keep "broadband-hogging" BitTorrent from slowing down its system, and BitTorrent wants its users to be able to use as much broadband as they need to get files through its system, super-fast. Link - Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:44:42 GMT - Feed (2 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe NBCSports.com - Tom Curran Headlines

Behind Comcast's MoveIn the Tech Beat blog, BW's Peter Burrows says the BitTorrent deal was more about PR than P2P Link - Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:31:00 GMT - Feed (2 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: Baseball

PHILADELPHIA and SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 /PRNewswire/ - Comcast Corporation and BitTorrent, Inc. announced today that they will undertake a collaborative effort with one another and with the broader Internet and ISP community to more effectively address issues associated with rich media content and network capacity management. While BitTorrent and Comcast are talking directly, they are also in discussions with other parties to help facilitate a broader dialogue and cooperation across industries. The Comcast and BitTorrent discussions have already produced meaningful results. On the one hand, Comcast announced that it will migrate by year-end 2008 to a capacity management technique that is protocol agnostic. "This means that we will have to rapidly reconfigure our network management system

Comcast Corp., an Internet service provider under investigation for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, announced Thursday an about-face in its stance and said it will treat all types of Internet traffic equally.Comcast said it will collaborate with BitTorrent Inc., the company founded by the creator of the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, to come up with better ways to transport large files over the Internet instead of delaying file transfers.Since user reports of interference with file-sharing traffic were confirmed by an Associated Press investigation in October, Comcast has been vigorously defending its practices, most recently at a hearing of the Federal Communications Commission in February.Consumer and "Net Neutrality" advocates have been equally vigorous in their a

Filed under: Networking Although Comcast has been beating around the proverbial bush about its data-meddling ways, it seems the pressure from the recent FCC investigation efforts have forced it to play nice. Reportedly, the firm is getting set to (begrudgingly, we presume) announce that it will "stop targeting BitTorrent on the internet." More specifically, the cable company will purportedly "boost broadband capacity" in order to make things speedier all around, but details on this tidbit were unsurprisingly absent. Nevertheless, BitTorrent has also agreed to make its software "more efficient," but those hoping that Comcast would leave well enough alone are in for even more disappointment. The outfit still plans on managing traffic on the 'net (standard practice, we know), but Tony Werner,

Here are the steps to getting a free map for your Xbox 360 game Rainbow Six Vegas 2. The free multiplayer map is provided by Comcast however, i’m just guessing but i’m pretty sure the map will be bogged down with product placement ads everywhere but, ehh.. it’s a free multi-player map so who cares! Step [...]

I need the codes to program the DVR on a Large button Sentry remote. My father cannot see and needs the large buttons to change channels. Does anyone know what code I can use to program the Motorola DVR onto the large button remote? Thank you so much

Wow, this is something else. According to a web, site Newteevee. Comcast is working on a technology, which will enable them to watch you anywhere you have a comcast cable box. I know amazing.... Please, read the article to find more information about this. I will do a write up on this particular topic soon. 

With the number of televisions and cable boxes in people’s bedrooms, and Comcast’s absolutely bad idea of putting video cameras in set top boxes we are thinking that the company is busy bringing us closer to the Orwellian 1984 ideas of watching people in their living room. This just raised the stakes on privacy because [...]

News From Satellite TV After Verizon claimed last November, that Verizon have completed a live 312-mile network route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical transmission, Comcast also announced that they have conducted the same 100-Gps optical networking equipment which will carry live Internet traffic over a production fiber infrastructure, last week Learnt this story from Comcast tests

Comcast: Deal or No DealComcast's Brian Roberts is a tough negotiator but hasn't made a big acquisition in years. Is he trigger-shy? Link - Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:55:00 GMT - Feed (2 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: U.S. Life

Think your high-speed internet is fast now? Wait until 2009, when Comcast plans to roll out its new 100 Gbps optical networking. The provider is currently "conducting what it claims is the first test of 100-gigabit-per-second optical networking equipment carrying...

Comcast still seems to be confused about what HD means to the public. In fact, they seem to think they know better than you as to what you want for your television. That’s the conclusion that has to be drawn after reviewing the remarks made yesterday by Michael Angelakis, who happens to be the [...]

Is the Big 10 Network finally going to find a home on a major cable provider? Yes, at least according to a report from the Sports Business Journal. The news provider says sources on both sides have said the framework of the agreement is in place for Comcast to begin [...]

In a partnership that will no doubt lead to decades of Big Ten athletic domination over lesser conference specimens (right), the Big Ten Network and Comcast appear to have reached a deal. According to the Sports Business Journal, Comcast will launch the network on expanded basic throughout most of the Big Ten area, while in [...]

Comcast Corp. said Friday it will establish a customer-service and operations campus in Livermore, Calif., that initially will employ 200 but could hire more over time. The campus has three buildings with 220,000 square feet among them. Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA,CMCSK) will use one building for a call center and the other two to house its Livermore technical operations team and its regional office staff, which now is based in San Ramon, Calif. Comcast plans to renovate the empty buildings and construct a new parking lot on the property. It expects the call center to be opened in August and to have the other two buildings occupied by December. Comcast is based in Philadelphia. It is the nation's largest cable-television company with 24.1 million customers. It also has 13.2 million Inte

9.3-2008 Comcast Update, small bullish flag since last update appeared.If you look HomeDepot chart from my february catalog - this looks alike very similiar case, however that stocastic looks now pretty sad.Stock Charts Courtesy of www.WallStreetTape.com

It’s not easy having a semi-unique name… From the Associated Press news wire. “A cable sports network says it no longer will make Athol the butt of its jokes… …The ad featured two side-by-side signs that together read: “We can pronounce Worcester … without sounding like an Athol.” A network spokesman said it apologized Thursday to… Athol by linking [...]

Comcast, le deuxième plus gros fournisseur internet aux États-Unis (détenu à 11% par Dodge&Cox) a payé des gens pour occuper des siège à une audience publique à Boston du FCC (l’équivalent aux ÉU du CRTC au Canada) qui mène une enquête sur Comcast qui aurait violé la neutralité du Net. Ainsi, les gens qui avaient [...]

The NFL won a minor court victory yesterday, as an appellate court in New York ruled a case involving Comcast should be “remanded for further proceedings.”  The ruling gives the NFL Network hope of being restored to many more Comcast customers. Comcast moved the NFL Network to a sports tier, which customers must subscribe to and [...]

Article: Comcast FCC Hearing Strategy Usually hearings are conducted for the purpose of fostering open discourse about a given subject or issue. They are intended to allow the public and interested parties to take part in or observe a discussion. Media giant Comcast was the hot subject of an FCC hearing regarding network neutrality at the [...]

Ya estamos empezando a ver la tendencia de el mundo respecto a las descargas P2P, ahora la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones estadounidense (FCC) estaba investigando a Comcast, el segundo proveedor de banda ancha en EEUU, cuando dicha empresa ha reconocido que emplea una tecnología que podría reducir la velocidad de descarga de los contenidos vía [...]

Comcast began offering a digital video recorder with TiVo's programming services in the Boston area. The partnership reflects a new strategy for TiVo, which is facing competition from satellite and cable-TV providers in the digital video recorder, or DVR, market. San Jose-based TiVo is trying to "divorce" itself from hardware by developing software for other set-top boxes, Chief Executive Officer Thomas Rogers said earlier this month at a Citigroup investor conference in Phoenix. The software for Comcast includes a new function to search cable-TV and On Demand listings, said Jeff Klugman, head of TiVo's service provider division. The new software won't have broadband features that exist in TiVo's retail products, Klugman said. Those features allow users to stream Rhapsody music and downlo

(Archived in: Related Miscellany Technology in Plain English)The fight for Net Neutrality is far from over. This is an issue important to everyone, not just Digital Nomads. It has as much to do with your wallet, as it does with fighting the duopoly that exists in every market comprised of your local cable provider and the telephone company.I had this news in my email today and am posting it on all my blogs (even at the risk of getting dinged by Google for duplicate content). It's that important...so pass it on. You can change it up a bit, but keep true to the content. The email below has been edited and paraphrased.____________________________________________We did it! Net Neutrality support has won a round in the fight to keep the Internet open and free from the wannabe corporate gatekeep

I wanted to share an abridged version my most recent cost cutting conversation  with Comcast customer service.  The dialogue is specific to my current situation, which was canceling cable, but it is representative of responses I have gotten in the past.  They are willing to cut your bill. First, I dialed the Comcast customer service phone number from my latest bill, and follow the menu to the "Cancel' services option.   You then proceed to wait on hold for enough time that you consider hanging up, and then a service rep finally greets you: Comcast Rep: My name is Sandra, how can I help you today? The Happy Rock:  I would like to cancel cable. Comcast Rep: May I ask why? The Happy Rock:  Because it is to expensive and I don't want to watch it. Comcast Rep: Oh, how about if I could get you a cheaper monthly bill? The Happy Rock:  No, I would like to cancel cable. Comcast Rep: I suggest keeping basic cable, since it will keep your bill lower. The Happy Rock:  Actually, my p

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Think back. Remember awhile back when we had that story about the old woman that attacked a Comcast office with a hammer because they wouldn’t switch her phone service over to Verizon? Go on, click the link if you want the details, I’ll wait. The woman, Mona Shaw, appeared on Good Morning America today according to Consumerist. Not too exciting right? Comcast might not have thought so either, because Comcast cable subscribers in Shaw’s hometown are saying that ABC went black on them during the piece. Coincidence? Why, surely. Share This

Crofton, you’re invited to the World’s Largest Baby Shower tonight - assuming you can still get tickets for the inaugural game of the Women’s Big 10/ACC Challenge at Comcast Center. Lady Terps’ Coach Brenda Frese is expecting twins in March, and fans are bringing a new unwrapped toy to the World’s Largest Baby Shower before the game.  All gifts will go to the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots.  Since Comcast Center seats 17,950, there could be a LOT of presents at this baby shower! The 2006 National Champion Maryland Terps are hoping to beat Ohio State, their 4th ranked opponent this season, to be the first team in the country to win 10 straight games.  You can see the action tonight on ESPNU. Copyright 2007.  All rights reserved.  Margaret Woda To receive timely notices about new posts to FocusOnCrofton.com, SUBSCRIBE NOW. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tags: Comcast+Center, Lady+Terps, Maryland+Basketball

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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14, 2007 – Microsoft and Comcast today announced a new service that brings the benefits of corporate-class productivity applications to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The offering, called Microsoft Communication Services from Comcast, delivers powerful productivity applications such as Microsoft Office Outlook and SharePoint Services that can help SMBs reduce costs and improve operational efficiency while extending the boundaries of the “office” to anywhere there’s Internet access. PressPass discussed today’s announcement with Michael O’Hara, general manager for Communications Sector at Microsoft. PressPass: What did you announce today?O’Hara: The small business market is the single most underserved market in the United States from a technology perspective. We’re announcing the availability today of a new service from Comcast that provides many of the same productivity tools such as Microsoft Outlook and document sharing that are found