Apr 08
Monopoly? What monopoly? At least that’s one of the pillars of the 180-page document Comcast just filed with regulators in defense of its pending $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable
Feb 18
Roku to run Showtime Anytime app
Posted in: Today's ChiliThere’s an addition to the Roku lineup of apps this week, one that brings a wide variety of Showtime-based content to the smart TV system. This update brings the app … Continue reading
Feb 16
There are broad, sweeping implications
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Feb 15
This article was written on May 13, 2011 by CyberNet.
Do you have suspicions that your ISP may be throttling (a.k.a. traffic shaping) some of your Internet traffic? It’s easy to tell if your ISP is blocking something, such as BitTorrent traffic, since nothing will get through, but it is more difficult to tell whether they are just restricting your download/upload speeds. That’s where the free Glasnost service comes into play.
Glasnost is a Java-powered web service that lets you run various tests for checking whether your P2P, email, or web traffic is being throttled by your ISP. Here’s a quick list of the 9 different tests you can run as well as a brief description of what gets tested with each of them:
- BitTorrent – Filesharing with BitTorrent.
- HTTP – A file download from a webserver using HTTP.
- IMAP – A download of an email with a large attachment from an IMAP email server.
- POP – A download of an email with a large attachment from a POP email server.
- Flash Video – Flash video over HTTP, as used by, e.g., YouTube.
- SSH – A file transfer over the SSH protocol, as done by the SCP utility.
- Gnutella – Filesharing with Gnutella.
- eMule – Filesharing with eMule.
- Usenet – Sharing Binary Files using Usenet Server (NNTP protocol).
I use Comcast for my ISP and I was happy to see that the couple tests I ran all came back saying that my traffic wasn’t being throttled. Of course this isn’t a definitive answer as to whether it is actually being done since they may only do it at specific times (e.g. during peak traffic periods), but it is a little more reassuring.
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Feb 13
Comcast has agreed to take in Time Warner Cable in the latest corporate merger over in the U.S., where this agreement happens to be a friendly, stock-for-stock transaction. In this particular merger, Comcast will pick up every single bit of Time Warner Cable’s 284.9 million shares which amounts to roughly $45.2 billion where equity value is concerned, and each Time Warner Cable share will be exchanged for 2.875 shares of CMCSA, equal to Time Warner Cable shareholders who happen to own around 23% of Comcast’s common stock. This particular transaction is said to generate around $1.5 billion in operating efficiency, and it will also be tax free to Time Warner Cable shareholders. There is one major talking point about this particular transaction – it will hopefully manage to create a leading technology and innovation company, where it leverages on a national platform while offering ground-breaking products, creating operating efficiencies and economies of scale.
Comcast And Time Warner Cable Merged original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 13
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that several tech companies are planning to announce a coalition called WifiForward today. The group will “add heft” to lobbying in Washington for increased … Continue reading
Feb 13
The mere mention of Comcast and Time Warner cuddling up
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Feb 13
Comcast has confirmed that it’s going to buy Time Warner Cable to form a huge, tangled monster of awfulness
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Feb 13
In case you missed it, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have officially confirmed their intentions to be come one gigantic conglomerate of suck
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Feb 12
Comcast is slated to acquire Time Warner Cable in what would be a merger of the two largest cable operators in the United States, according to sources that spoke with … Continue reading
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