Entries Tagged as 'Comcast'

Comcast to swallow NBC Unversal?

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments

And the big keep on getting bigger:
Cable giant Comcast Corp. is kicking the tires of NBC Universal, according to people familiar with the situation.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator with almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to increase its content holdings for several years. In NBC Universal it would get its hands on not […]

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You watch Comcast, Comcast watches you

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Creepy:
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.
The idea […]

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Sleeping on Comcast’s dime

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Via Will Bunch, we see that you, too, can make money working for Comcast.
So long as the FCC is holding a hearing into Comcast’s behavior in your town, as happened yesterday in Boston:
How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators?
Consider this: One side in the […]

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Specter and Comcast

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Joined at the hip, reports Will Bunch, shedding light on why the good senator seems intent on investigating the NFL and the Patriots spying scandal:
They noted that the longtime GOP stalwart’s No. 2 source of campaign funds in recent years has been none other than employees of Comcast Corp. and their families, linked to at […]

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Why your cable bill is so high

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Because dead men may not tell tales, but at Comcast, they continue to get paid. As Chris over at AmericaBlog notes:
The family of Comcast founder Roberts will continue to receive his salary ($1.8 million/year) for five years after he dies. They already sit on the board of directors but that is just not enough. His […]

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