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News Named as defendants were Facebook, along with current and former Beacon participants Blockbuster, Fandango (owned by Comcast), Overstock.com, STA Travel, Zappos, Hotwire (owned by InterActiveCorp), and GameFly. [21 Sep 2009]
Adobe's Flash turns into a telly addict
News As part of the announcement, the company revealed a number of partners that plan to use the technology, including Atlantic Records, Comcast, Disney Interactive, Intel, Netflix and the New York Times Company. [20 Apr 2009]
Premiere Service Provider Increases Value Added Revenue and Enhances Broadband Experience by Bundling D-Link Home Networking Solutions
White Paper Broadband National chose the D-Link DCM-202 High Speed DOCSIS 2.0 cable modem as the CPE for data services they sold on the Comcast cable network. One of the significant differences in the Broadband National approach to... [03 Apr 2009]
Tweet to boost your CRM cred
News Early adopter companies using Twitter as a customer service channel include Comcast and Zappos - which have both built up large Twitter followings. In tough economic times businesses are being urged to exploit web 2.0... [10 Feb 2009]
Microsoft makes a Move on web TV
News In April, the American Fork raised $46m from a stellar line-up of investors, including Benchmark Capital, Cisco Systems, Comcast Interactive Media, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Steamboat Ventures. [26 Aug 2008]
More businesses turning to VoIP?
News The dominant consumer VoIP service provider in EMEA is France Télécom, while Comcast leads in North America and Softbank in Asia Pacific, according to Infonetics. Voice over IP (VoIP) business services are set to grow as... [14 Aug 2008]
Nortel ditches WiMax in 4G race
News The company earlier this year joined forces with Clearwire and several other companies including Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Intel in a $12bn joint venture to build a nationwide WiMax network. Telecom equipment maker... [16 Jun 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News On Wednesday, a joint venture in the US was announced, involving Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, with $1bn in funding from Intel and similarly large amounts from other players like Comcast, Google and Time Warner. [09 May 2008]
Comcast and Time Warner to invest in 4G…
News Comcast and Time Warner Cable are looking to help bankroll a new joint venture between Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to deliver 4G wireless services, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.... [26 Mar 2008]
ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight
News The high-profile squabble over Comcast's slowdown of BitTorrent file-sharing traffic - and broader questions of network handling by ISPs - is set for public scrutiny at a federal hearing today. The FCC in 2005 said... [25 Feb 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Other notable deals worthy of mention include networking and communications equipment-maker Lucent's acquisition of Ascend for $20bn in 1999 and Comcast's purchase of AT&T for a whopping $67bn in 2001. [04 Feb 2008]
Yahoo! pockets Zimbra for $350m
News The company has more than 200 educational, business and ISP partners, including Comcast, which offer branded email service to roughly nine million subscribers. Yahoo! is buying email software provider Zimbra for about... [18 Sep 2007]
Yahoo! gets smart about online ads
News partners Comcast and eBay. Yahoo! just upped the ante in the display advertising space. It has launched a new display advertising product called SmartAds which allows marketers to offer ads that are customised based on... [02 Jul 2007]
Spam busting plan to make businesses pay
News Goodmail Systems, which provides a service called CertifiedEmail, has signed up Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon as customers. Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start... [07 Jun 2007]
Security warning over tech support tools
News Those that have yet to fix the SupportSoft issue include IBM and internet access providers BellSouth, Comcast and Time Warner, it said. Multiple flaws in commonly used technical support tools can open Windows PCs to... [27 Feb 2007]
