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Comcast Interactive Media has released XFINITY TV Remote 1.16, a new version of the company’s TV app for iOS that allows customers to control their TV, search TV listings, browse movies and TV shows in XFINITY On Demand, and schedule DVR recordings.
XFINITY TV Remote lets you view customized TV listings by are... |
14 April 2013
09:43 GMT |
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It turns out that a judge believed Comcast representatives when they said that a rights holder was trying to obtain their customers’ identities just to convince them to accept settlements. As a result, he quashed the subpoenas and closed the case, FightCopyrightTrolls reports.
Initially, Prenda Law filed a law... |
22 June 2012
10:27 GMT |
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The official website of Comcast Hometown Network (comcasthometown.com), a San Francisco Bay Area and Central California regional cable network produced by Comcast, has been defaced by UGNazi. Besides defacing the site, the hackers also leaked 15 login usernames and clear-text passwords that allegedly belong to admin... |
18 June 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Comcast has asked an Illinois District Court to quash subpoenas obtained by copyright holders that want to learn the identities of individuals who allegedly download their materials from BitTorrent websites.
In mass piracy lawsuits there has always been a clear path on how things work. The copyright holder obtains t... |
14 June 2012
09:20 GMT |
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CyberZeist, the hacker part of the UGNazi collective, claims to have gained unauthorized access to the systems of Comcast (comcast.com), the renowned US Internet service provider. The company has become a target ever since it revealed its plans to help copyright holders in the fight against piracy. “Hey Mr.Com... |
21 May 2012
05:05 GMT |
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By now, pretty much everybody known that Comcast plans to start experimenting with web-connected set top boxes, but until recently these devices were unveiled by a shroud of mystery.All this changed however just a short while ago when the FCC’s hallways welcomed ‘Parker’, the outfit’s first, a... |
19 January 2012
10:25 GMT |
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There aren't a lot of people in the business that don't know this, IPv4 addresses have nearly run out and IPv6 needs to be adopted as soon as possible. Yet no one is doing something very concrete about it.Some sites have deployed support, some small scale ISPs are testing or even supporting the technology i... |
11 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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By now, one shouldn't be surprised to learn that Intel wants to get its chips inside every possible electronic out there, so the news about a set-top box based on its technology might not come as such a shock.
When it comes to the so-called TV experience, it is easy to see that the quality of the services, a... |
15 June 2011
02:56 GMT |
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Novatel has recently announced that its new MiFi 4082 Mobile Hotspot is available for purchase via Comcast.
Re-branded as Xfinity Internet2go, the MiFi mobile hotspot is commercially available through Comcast's website for a $25 one-time fee with a qualifying Xfinity Internet 2go service plan.
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9 May 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Although Google TV didn't manage to become the success story everybody expected it to be, smart TV solutions are certainly gaining momentum, so Comcast Spectrum decided to build its very own Internet TV platform, codenamed “Xcalibur,” that is currently undergoing testing in Augusta, Georgia.
As mo... |
14 December 2010
09:20 GMT |
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Comcast, the largest cable operator and the largest home internet service provider in the United States, has launched its new Xfinity TV app for iPad and iPhone. The free application enables Xfinity TV digital customers to watch TV shows and movies directly on their iOS device, either at home or on-the-go.According t... |
17 November 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Security experts have expressed concerns over Comcast's new in-browser botnet notification system, saying that it will most likely be abused by scareware distributors.Comcast is in the process of rolling out a new service called Constant Guard, that will alert any of its 16 million high-speed internet customers ... |
6 October 2010
08:10 GMT |
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Comcast will be rolling out an in-browser botnet notification system, that it has been testing for the past year, to all of its customers during the upcoming months.Dubbed Constant Guard, the service was launched in October 2009 in the Denver area. It involves monitoring the network traffic for known signs of botnet ... |
1 October 2010
10:38 GMT |
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Two men responsible for hijacking the comcast.net domain in 2008 and redirecting visitors to a rogue website, were sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison.Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. "EBK," 20, of Newark, Delaware, and Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a. "Slacker," 28, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, both pleaded guilty earlie... |
25 September 2010
04:53 GMT |
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A 21-year-old hacker involved in the 2008 hijacking of the comcast.net domain name, which saw legitimate traffic being redirected to a rogue website, received a four-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay almost $130,000 in restitution.For over five hours during 28 and 29 of May 2008, Comcast customers trying t... |
10 August 2010
15:15 GMT |
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More and more videogames rely heavily on the Internet to deliver an experience to the player. Ubisoft is building its next-gen Digital Rights Management system around always connected titles and soon the company could actually deliver content as gamers play. Microsoft is expanding the line up of Games on Demand title... |
8 April 2010
04:23 GMT |
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Due to a recent surge in IPv4 allocations in Asia, in major part owed to China's Internet boom, ICANN has recently announced that the total number of available IPv4 addresses has fallen below the 10% mark and is now approximated around the 400 million mark.Not to cause any panic in IT circles, Rod Beckstrom, ICA... |
2 February 2010
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Comcast, the greatest US cable and Internet/broadband provider, and General Electric decided to pool their resources, each contributing with their services, networks and finest technology in order to bring about the establishment of a leading media and entertainment company combining both partners' arrays of net... |
3 December 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Three individuals were charged on November 19 for their role in an attack, which involved hijacking the comcast.net domain name and redirecting its traffic to a rogue website. According to the indictment, the defendants used social engineering in order to obtain information that facilitated their plans to alter the d... |
21 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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More details about Comcast's upcoming video on demand service dubbed On-Demand Online. The service is Comcast's approach to the TV Everywhere project, announced by the cable service and Time Warner a few months back. At a NewTeeVee event dedicated to the future of video content, Comcast Interactive Media P... |
13 November 2009
07:26 GMT |
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Comcast is reportedly testing out WiMAX femtocells, in a move aimed at enabling it to offer expanded wireless broadband services. The largest cable provider in the United States is already known to have plans for WiMAX services; therefore, the testing of femtocells that are based on this technology should not come a... |
12 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint have announced recently that they plan on launching 4G services on a series of new markets in the US, including Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle, and that the rollout is expected to be performed before the end of the ongoing year. According to the three companies, each one of them will ... |
23 October 2009
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Comcast, the largest residential cable and Internet service provider in the United States, has started tests of a new system that will alert customers of possible infections on their computers via in-browser notifications. The warnings will be sent to the owners of computers that display bot behavior or whose associa... |
9 October 2009
06:08 GMT |
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One by one, cable companies are waking up to the threat of online video, especially from the likes of Hulu, with its full-length content from TV, but also cable networks. Time-Warner has launched a pilot program dubbed TV Everywhere, and Comcast followed suit. Now telcos are joining the fray, with AT&T launching a ne... |
11 September 2009
09:46 GMT |
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The company enabling mobile user experiences going by the name of mPortal, Inc. has announced in a report that it assisted Comcast in developing Comcast mobile for the iPhone and iPod touch. Reportedly, mPortal was a key part of the end-to-end application development, as the company worked closely with Comcast. User... |
2 September 2009
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Yesterday Comcast announced that HBO and Cinemax programming would be joining its On Demand Online trial to be held over the course of this summer. While these are great additions, details remained sketchy about what other networks would join, if any. Today the cable operator has put speculations to rest announcing 1... |
15 July 2009
09:17 GMT |
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Comcast's trial project On Demand Online is gaining traction with the addition of HBO and Cinemax programing to the catalog. As part of the “TV Everywhere” project announced last month jointly by the Comcast and Time Warner cable companies, On Demand Online will offer 5,000 US citizens the chance to ... |
14 July 2009
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As previously expected, cable companies Time Warner and Comcast have announced their new system for bringing content online. The idea is simple: users will be able to view TV content online for free as long as they are cable subscribers. Time Warner is calling it “TV Everywhere,” Comcast “OnDemand O... |
25 June 2009
02:37 GMT |
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i.TV, the ultimate movie, DVD and TV guide for the iPhone and iPod touch has just been updated to version 1.4. The updated application is now available in the iTunes Store for free download, and includes a dedicated menu tab for Comcast subscribers, the world’s first “shakable” advertisement, AT&T U... |
26 March 2009
09:32 GMT |
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A user who was curious to search how much of his personal information was available on the Internet, stumbled upon a document containing some 8,000 usernames and passwords belonging to Comcast customers. After checking the file, the Internet service provider disabled around 700 active accounts and said it had been mo... |
18 March 2009
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Comcast, one of the largest Internet providers in the US, has announced that, as of October 1, the maximum traffic will be reduced to a monthly 250GB per user. This comes as a repercussion of the fact that the company, lacking the means to offer customers the connection speed they needed, decided to interfere with th... |
30 August 2008
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Many parents believe that using the parental control tool found in basically any security solution on the market keeps their children perfectly safe from dangerous or offensive content. The latest Norton Online Living Report shows that children not only don't care too much about the threats, but they also do thi... |
21 August 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Comcast, the biggest US Internet provider, announced that it would change its policy regarding the management of its total bandwidth. In the past, the company had been accused of restricting or slowing down the connection for several file sharing programs. This affected users of P2P networks, which had problems whene... |
21 August 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Comcast, the second biggest American Internet provider, was heard by the Federal Communication Commission, which received some information about the fact that the company restricts users from properly connecting or decreases the speed for some applications. The commission put forth a policy statement as far back as 2... |
11 July 2008
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Comcast, one of the largest ISP in the United States, saw its website hacked last night with a strange message displayed to all the visitors: "KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven". What's interesting is that it seems like the hackers managed to break into the ser... |
29 May 2008
05:24 GMT |
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A few months ago, Comcast, the largest cable television company and one of the largest Internet Service Providers in the United States, was accused of throttling BitTorrent downloads after numerous clients came upon slow connections and very low download speeds. At that time, Comcast said that the company took action... |
16 May 2008
03:26 GMT |
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Comcast has just introduced its new extreme high-speed Internet tier, that is rated at data transfer rates of 50 Mbps for download and 5 Mb/s for upload. The company promised to offer high-speed Internet-over-Cable since late last year, when it talked about the new surfing speeds offered by the DOCSIS 3.0-compliant c... |
3 April 2008
04:07 GMT |
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Last May, Robb Topolski, an independent researcher, found out that Comcast, a big American Internet Service Provider, was chopping down BitTorrent's traffic by quickly killing off any files being uploaded. The means they tricked everybody was that they sent a fake reset flag to break the Peer -to-Peer connection... |
19 February 2008
12:36 GMT |
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A few days after Ireland's largest telecommunications provider revealed its plans for a 100 million Euro data center in Europe, the company comes with another juicy offering: real broadband speed for its subscribers.While the low broadband speed in USA apparently has no cure, Eircom seems to have found the key t... |
1 February 2008
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AT&T has just announced a new speed plan for its subscribers to the U-Verse DSL service. The cable and Internet service provider will bring a new service, called AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Max, that will boost the network traffic up to 10Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up.The new plan will be available since February, bu... |
24 January 2008
04:34 GMT |
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Although we've talked in a previous article about Panasonic's lineup for this year's CES, there is one collaboration worth mentioning, namely the one with US services provider Comcast. Thus, the Japanese company has unveiled what it touts to be the industry's first Portable DVR/DVD player, namely ... |
10 January 2008
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Today, Comcast released Fancast to the world and it really was worth the wait since April, when it was first announced and when the name was acquired from movie site Fandango. It is both a media guide for TV shows (in other words, a TV Guide) and a place to watch full-length professional content, as well as previews.... |
9 January 2008
09:47 GMT |
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The anti-YouTube coalition strengthens and flexes its muscles to show off the new Viacom additions: Comedy Central, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon and Atom Films, to name a few sources of videos that the Network has started sharing with an array of video-sharing websites that enlist Dailymotion, Veoh (which already has Hu... |
9 January 2008
09:12 GMT |
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Comcast managed to stun everyone as they presented the new Internet speed plans for this year during a conference at the Consumer Electronics Show. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts stated that the company "will show the two-way, fiber-optic-based network we built is ready for the next generation" of TV, phone and Internet p... |
9 January 2008
06:37 GMT |
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"Welcome to the Weather Channel. All weather, all day" (yawn). That's the quote I would use to best describe my feelings when I've heard of the deal that is about to go down. No way this could be worth three times more than YouTube! No, abso-frickin'-lutely not! Checking the story a little deeper, I fo... |
3 January 2008
06:00 GMT |
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Comcast has announced that they are committed to deploying a DOCSIS 3.0 networking infrastructure in the next year that will be available to more than 20 percent of their network coverage. Comcast, as well as other Internet Service Providers, use the DOCSIS 1.1 specification for their Internet-over-Cable modems.Compa... |
30 November 2007
10:41 GMT |
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Jon Hart, a Comcast customer living in California, filed a lawsuit against his ISP, accusing it of blocking the BitTorrent downloads, an action which infringes the contract and the computer fraud laws, Wired reported today. The plaintiff said that he chose Comcast's services because he wanted to use the peer-to-... |
15 November 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Following the last week's reports that Comcast, the US second largest ISP, blocks the access to BitTorrent downloads and other file sharing application, the company's representatives decided to go out and clarify the issue. According to the New York Times, a written statement signed by Comcast states that t... |
23 October 2007
07:52 GMT |
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Comcast, one of the largest ISPs in the US, took the decision to restrict the Internet access for some of its customers because they download too much. Although it might sound a little bit shocking nowadays that you can't download as much as you want, the company disconnected the users as they were slowing down ... |
10 September 2007
06:53 GMT |
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Because Google owns the best search engine on the Internet, users from every corner of the world try to make partnerships with the company, aiming to improve their popularity and earn more money. Comcast is just an example, representing a Google partner that is now unhappy with the services provided by the search gia... |
19 March 2007
07:45 GMT |
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