Cord Cutting is Devastating Comcast. Will They Be Disrupted or Save Themselves?
A site I follow, Cord Cutters News, had this interesting article today about a Comcast Executive Vice President gave a warning to investors, “…that the company expects to report losses of 100,000 to 150,000 video…
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Comcast Web App Fail
Shouldn’t someone in charge of web applications for a major company like Comcast review error messages and customer processes? I sure thought so until today when I attempted to set up my wife as a…
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Sony vs Comcast’s 250GB “Cap”
When major global companies like Sony decide that Comcast’s 250GB ‘cap‘ on data downloading makes entering a streaming video business not worthwhile, then you know things are coming to a head. From Ars Technica, “Sony: Internet video…
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Let’s (Not!) Play Comcast Monopoly
ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION TV CONSUMERS? If you are, then you have GOT TO SEE the anti-competitive, monopolistic, anti-internet moves that Comcast is making. If you’re not, OPEN YOUR EYES AND START SCREAMING at your…
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Comcast’s Xfinity Fail
When Comcast announced their nationwide Xfinity initiative, I greeted it with skepticism and that has only grown over time. Their “Fancast” website, now dubbed xfinity tv, has surprisingly crappy quality and I’m on a 16mbps…
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Comcast’s Oscar Fail
Though the problem seemed to begin on Friday with our Comcast cable TV service, we didn’t much care until the family sat down to watch the 82nd Academy Awards and the video stuttering and audio…
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Will Comcast crush internet innovation?
If you’ve been following the story about net neutrality, Comcast’s games with bandwidth throttling and the FCC rebuke of these practices, then you’ll really want to know about Comcast’s decision to place a 250GB per…
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Comcast’s DOCSIS 3.0 Twin Cities Rollout
When given the chance to be one of the first two companies in the Twin Cities to receive an install of Comcast’s new DOCSIS 3.0-driven high speed service (50 megabits per second download speed and…
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Comcast: No iChat, No Choice
Since I rarely use Bittorrent and have experienced just a few issues with using Skype (and none with Vonage) services over my Comcast High Speed Internet connection, the confirmed accusations of Comcast’s packet shaping have…
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As Always, Be *Extremely* Cautious About Installing Browser Extensions
Browser extensions are fraught with danger — which is why I rarely use them — especially those extensions that request your permission to: Access your data for all websites Access browser tabs Access recently closed…
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