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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]
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. Comcast, the largest cable operator in the US...
[26 Mar 2008]
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 broadband companies should not...
[25 Feb 2008]
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]
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 $350m, the companies announced.
[18 Sep 2007]
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 the web surfer's age, gender...
[02 Jul 2007]
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 charging businesses for...
[07 Jun 2007]
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 cyber attack, security experts...
[27 Feb 2007]
whitepaper A great deal of discussion is taking place regarding Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system initiatives and their financial viability or ROI. There seems to be widespread confusion about the financial impact of these projects on revenue and...
[22 Jan 2007]
News Companies involved have included AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft, Verizon Communications and trade associations. US attorney general Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday stepped up his efforts to lobby for federal laws requiring ISPs to keep track of what...
[20 Sep 2006]
News The 44-person start-up, which is only four years old, already counts the two largest cable companies in the US - Comcast and Time Warner - as customers. Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems is set to announce today it will spend $92m to buy a...
[22 Aug 2006]
News Comcast, which has opposed extensive net neutrality regulations, welcomed Majoras' remarks, calling them "a major constructive contribution to the debate on network neutrality" that "properly places the burden of proof on those who believe...
[22 Aug 2006]
News Its members include Apple, the Business Software Alliance, Comcast, Dell, the Information Technology Industry Council, Intel, Microsoft, Time Warner and Visa. The US patent system could be inching closer to an overhaul long desired by the...
[07 Aug 2006]
Round-Up And in this age of a far more democratised media world, the customer then posted the video on YouTube, resulting in thousands of people watching the clip of the coma-cast Comcast worker. Comcast clearly recognised there was a serious problem here.
[28 Jul 2006]
Photo Brian Finkelstein, a law student at Georgetown University, produced this video of a Comcast technician who came to replace a faulty modem but fell asleep on the couch after spending an hour on hold with the company's central office.
[21 Jul 2006]
whitepaper That customer list contains some of the most respected names in the business, including British Telecom, Swisscom, Cable and Wireless, Telstra, China Telecom, and Comcast. Telecommunications companies are demonstrating increasing interest and...
[02 Jun 2006]
News Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller privately met with representatives of AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Verizon last week and said that ISP - and perhaps search engines - must retain data for two years to help with anti-terrorism...
[31 May 2006]
News Cable providers such as Comcast and Time Warner have seen tremendous growth in their customer base as they bundle their voice service with high-speed web access and TV service - so-called triple-play.
[25 May 2006]
News Comcast, which offers cable modem service in Philadelphia, offers a three-month special on its broadband service for $19.99. The city of Philadelphia detailed its plan to blanket the city with wi-fi after signing its final contract with EarthLink...
[03 Mar 2006]
News and Comcast were reportedly in talks with AOL at one point too but dropped out of the race, leaving heavyweights Google and Microsoft to fight it out. As part of the current negotiations with Google, AOL would be able to sell additional ads for its...
[19 Dec 2005]
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