All Posts Tagged With: "comcast"

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Begining of the end of broadband as we know it

Our beloved communications company, Comcast, has posted an ammendment to it’s Network Management Policy stating that starting October 1st, it will be implementing broadband usage caps to 250GB per month.Yes that’s right, it’s like our cell phone plans now. Exceed your caps and pay more to Comcast. Well not quite!
If a customer surpasses 250 GB [...]

August 29th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Big Brother reminder - Comcast is monitoring your blog!

If Comcast is your Internet Service Provider, you have a curious reader for your blog, Comcast itself. And if you thought that was not creepy enough, they might even write you back if you get, ahem, lucky.
According to a New York Times article, Brandon Dilbeck is a 20 year old student at University of Washington [...]

July 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued

Fandango gets Movies.com, Disney goes Veoh!

Los Angeles based Fandango Inc., has acquired Movies.com from Walt Disney Co. Fandango.com is a popular online movie ticket site that has exclusive access to more than 15000 movie screens across the country. Fandango Inc., the parent company of fandango.com is owned by ComCast Corp.
Movies.com has a broad array of information about movies for movie [...]

June 23rd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
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Plaxo acquired by Comcast

Comcast Corp. said Wednesday that it will acquire Plaxo Inc., capping off a “redemption story” for backers of the early social networking site. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Plaxo, backed by more than $20 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Harbinger Venture Management, Cisco Systems Inc. and Ram Shiram, offers [...]

May 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued