Posts Tagged with ‘comcast’

When you hear or read the term “Net neutrality,” what do you think? “Yes, please?” “We still talking about that stuff?” Perhaps you don’t really care one way or another.
Whatever your opinion on the subject might be, the fact of the matter is that we’ve got a ways to go before it’s a dead one. With members of the US Senate Commerce Committee now looking into cases involving ISPs and charges against them having to do with inaccurate (and maybe [...]

Today's launch of Hulu (and its partnership with Comcast) reminded me of Fancast, which is a hybrid entertainment portal from the cable service provider.
Back in August when I reviewed Fancast, I admired it and described it as “web 2.0 meets IMDB meets TV Guide” for its comprehensive database of movies and television shows that also provided viewers with TV listings in an effort to help visitors decide what to watch each day on television.
Just as expected, my visit to [...]

The topic of Net neutrality was recently looked into by the US Justice Department, after the battle in the states over pros and cons reached noise levels warranting its comment on the matter. Unfortunately, the promoters of an equal-for-all Internet landscape for content owners, content distributors, and content consumers alike have seen Washington’s legal department play its hand opposite their own. While the decision is hardly set in stone (again, it was only a "comment"), it surely comes as a [...]

For years, companies and individuals involved with the development of both the business and residential infrastructures enabling the deployment of widespread Internet access in the US have been admitting that they haven’t quite constructed the most state-of-the-art network(s) in the world. Average speeds of downstream and upstream transfers are all but snail-like in comparison to those recorded in Japan, South Korea, and several countries residing within the European continent.
The most pressing issue facing the US in terms of technological advancement [...]

Comcast has now opened the doors on a beta version of Fancast, its entertainment portal that will aim to be ?the one place where you can find what to watch, where to watch, when to watch it — plus all the video, photos and facts you crave.?
Fancast is now open to the public and provides a comprehensive database of TV shows, movies, actors, directors, movie trailers and various other video clips. Think of it as web 2.0 meets IMDB meets [...]

As reported by the AP today, Vonage continues to lose cash (though less so in Q2 2007 than in periods prior) and has reported a steep drop in subscriber recruitment, and has for the first time lost its place as the largest provider of VoIP service to the American consumer market to Comcast, a cable television and Internet service provider.
Uh oh.
As unfortunate as it is to say, considering Vonage’s place as a “pioneer” in consumer- and small-business-oriented VoIP market [...]

CBS has apparently recently realized that in order to bring in more traffic and to increase views of its online video, it must become viral… in the sense that they must spread their video content across the web. That did, of course, play a big role in the massive growth of YouTube, which is currently the most popular destination for online video.
Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive, has stated that "CBS is all about open, nonexclusive partnerships." He realizes that [...]

Google Inc. just made a deal with U.S. TV satellite company EchoStar in an attempt to enter the TV advertising business. On Monday EchoStar and Google said they will partner to create an automated system for buying, selling, delivering and measuring TV ads on EchoStar's 125 channel Dish Network.
Google pay-per-click advertising has transformed the Internet and now Google is aiming to bring the same system to conventional media like radio, TV and printed media. This will really shake up the [...]