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Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica

May 16, 2008

Mashable! / Sean P. Aune

It seems the rumors reported earlier today by TechCrunch were spot on, and Wired is the proud new owner of Ars Technica. In a call to Alexandra Constantinople, Executive Director of Communications fo ...

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Study: BitTorrent blocking common on Comcast, Cox, StarHub

May 16, 2008

BetaNews.Com

Blocking of BitTorrent traffic is widespread among some ISPs in the US and Singapore, but not in Canada or any other country on the globe, says a new study released this week from German researchers. ...

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Study finds Cox also blocked file sharing / Comcast not ...

May 16, 2008

SFGate: Business & Technology / Peter Svensson

Comcast Corp.'s interference with Internet traffic has prompted a federal investigation and is at the center of calls for network neutrality laws, but another U.S. cable company appears to be doing th ...

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Latest Study Confirms Cox Traffic Shaping; Comcast Misleading Again

May 16, 2008

Techdirt / Michael Masnick

A bunch of folks have been submitting various news reports claiming the "news" that Cox is traffic shaping just like Comcast is -- but that's hardly news. We had a story about that last November. Wh ...

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MGM, Comcast Ink HD Movie Distribution Pact

May 16, 2008

Multichannel Breaking News

MGM HD and Comcast Friday signed an affiliate agreement that will allow the cable operator to offer hundreds of high-definition movies to its subscribers. ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comcast calls DirecTV a thief

May 16, 2008

Marcelo Calbucci / Marcelo Calbucci

      I just got out of the phone with a Comcast representative that told me in all these words: "DirecTV steals from their customers. Would you have business with a company& ...

Comcast Loses CableCard Exemption Fight

May 16, 2008

PCM Breaking News

Comcast on Friday suffered a legal setback in its effort to get out from under a federal regulations restricting the type of set-top box it can offer customers. ...

Two street-racing Comcast employees leave three-year-old hospitalized and unconscious

May 16, 2008

Leftlane - news, reviews, and info for the auto-industry / dejz28

While street racing is a serious problem in some communities, an incident that occurred this past weekend really has us scratching our heads. Two Comcast employees were reportedly racing their compan ...

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MGM and Comcast Bring Consumers More High-Def Movies Through MGM ...

May 16, 2008

HDTV Magazine

MGM HD, the high definition movie channel from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, today announced it has signed an affiliate agreement with Comcast Corporation, the nation's leading provider of entertainment, infor ...

Buzz Out Loud 726: Dueling banjos at dawn

May 16, 2008

Buzz Out Loud from CNET / buzz@cnet.com

Somehow today's show ended with Jason Howell challenging Paul Shaeffer to a duel at Shalin's suggestion. We don't know. It's Friday. In other news, Cox and Comcast are the biggest BitTorrent blockers ...

Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P2P Traffic

May 16, 2008

NYT > Technology / By Grant Gross, <a href="http://www.idg.com/IDG_News_Service" target="_blank">IDG News Service\Washington Bureau</a>, <span class="idg">IDG</span>

The cable broadband providers are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all times of the day, not just during peak traffic, according to a new study by a German computer research group. ...

Study: BitTorrent blocking common on Comcast, Cox,...

May 16, 2008

MP3Board.com

Blocking of BitTorrent traffic is widespread among some ISPs in the US and Singapore, but not in Canada or any other country on the globe, says a new study released this week from German researchers.. ...

Squawk Box May 16

May 16, 2008

Alec Saunders SquawkBox / Alec Saunders

This morning we wrapped up some of the big stories of the week.  We talked about traffic shaping, as new data has emerged showing that Comcast has lied to the US FCC.  We also talked about Jerry Yan ...

My SNCR Podcast Interview With Comcast’s Frank Ellison

May 16, 2008

PR Communications / jcass@nwlink.com (John Cass)

My podcast interview with Frank Ellison of Comcast Customer Outreach was recently posted on the Society for New Communications Research website. The podcast forms the basis of a case study for the soc ...

Comcast, Cox interfere with P2P traffic all day

May 16, 2008

TechSpot / Jose Vilches

Comcast’s practice of interfering with peer-to-peer traffic is hardly news to anyone, but a new study has found that Cox Communications and Singapore’s StarHub have been meddling with their subscrib ...

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