Posts Tagged with ‘comcast’

Being able to watch television programming on the internet is a wonderful thing. Many of the big networks like ABC, NBC, Fox, etc. have already started uploading television content directly to the internet for users who don't mind watching programming on their computer screens. Of course, that puts cable providers in a bit of a pickle; if users can go directly to the source on the internet and cut out the middle men, what good will cable providers [...]

With the explosion of user-generated content ranging from blog posts to product reviews to complaints registered via Twitter, companies are growing more and more concerned about their reputations being sullied. An entire industry has sprung up to help corporations (as well as individuals) track their image online, as well as try to improve the image. Companies like Techrigy, Radian6, and filtrbox will help you track references online, while others like Reputation Defender propose to help you fix things you might [...]

I'm starting to think I may just want to skip right over the rest of 2008 and start fresh in 2009 when companies come to their senses. First HP decides to acquire support service dinosaur EDS, then Comcast snaps up Plaxo (all the better to throttle your bandwidth AND that of your social graph, my pretties!), and now CBS buys CNET.
I'm sure CNET is ecstatic about the news; several of their properties have been financially struggling now for what seems [...]

Sometimes just watching Twitter on a Friday afternoon, you'll see one more way people are using the service to facilitate their everyday activities. Some people use Twitter for conversation, some for pitches, some for resume solicitation, and others for, well, Twitgotiating.
After Nicholas Tolson of Erickson Barnett sent a Tweet about his experience with Radian6, he got several new followers, most of whom were Radian6 staff. Like most companies, they probably have alerts set for mentions of their company. However, any [...]

… in hating New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky.
Brodsky, a Democrat representing a Westchester County District, is sponsoring a bill that would limit the ability of companies to collect information for targeted advertising. Joining Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in opposing the bill are AOL, Comcast, eBay, EDS, and Facebook.
Jim Halpert, general counsel for the State Privacy and Security Coalition, claims that the bill "is unnecessary, most likely unconstitutional, and would have profound implications for the future of Internet advertising and [...]

Since last November, Comcast's efforts to free up valuable bandwidth among its users by banning and preventing access to BitTorrent traffic has proved about as successful as the RIAA reign of terror on the realm of P2P sharing.
BitTorrent is here to stay and, judging from the outcome of the Napster drama from as far back as 1999, fighting the progression of such a popular protocol will only result in wasted dollars and an eventual service allowing legal file sharing for [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And I've encouraged countless others to ditch their dial-up to move to Time Warner's services.
Hopefully, my long history as an evangelist of their services will explain [...]

Let’s face facts. Most peer-to-peer services today, while certainly capable of acting as intermediaries between remote parties on the Web for legal data transfers, do provide linking services for illicit means.
But some entities that rely on P2P technologies like BitTorrent are entirely valid. Vuze, a service built upon the Azureus platform, is one such example.
Yet Vuze, like others of the legal P2P variety, is being forced to contend with ISP-led bit-blocking measures. The reason, simply put, is that [...]

The latest bits of news to emerge from the mess surrounding P2P file sharing are quite incredible. So much so that we simply couldn’t resist sharing them with you.
One involves a surprising play by an anti-Net-neutrality party against a particular ISP’s unsavory actions. Another has to do with the RIAA and its seriously disturbing efforts to put into law – vicariously through American legislators, of course – a higher education bill (you may view the corresponding PDF here) that will [...]