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Voice is Cable’s Secret Weapon for Growth

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:01:32 +0000

Earlier this decade, when cable companies started their foray into the phone business, not many gave them much of a chance to succeed. Sure they could sell a lot of broadband connections but no one thought they would be players in telecom services such as voice. Fast forward to today and the ...

DSLreports - front page found this 17 hours ago on gigaom.com

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Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme (update: old news)

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Comcast customers have been no stranger to bandwidth shenanigans over the years, from the whole torrent filtering mess to the 250GB monthly cap . Now the company is back with a new data throttling scheme intended to put the kibosh on excessive traffic during those times when the network ...

DSLreports - front page found this 25 hours ago on engadget.com

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Comcast implements new throttling system

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:54:49 +0000

Comcast in a new FCC notice (PDF) revealed that it has already begun implementing a new throttling system. The approach is now service-agnostic and will lower the priority of any data packets if a user's cable modem either tops 70 percent of download or upload bandwidth for more than 15 minutes ...

DSLreports - front page found this 25 hours ago on electronista.com

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Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:38:00 +0000

clang_jangle writes with this excerpt from The Inquirer outlining Comcast's new traffic-throttling scheme , based on information from Comcast's latest FCC filing . "Its network throttling implements a two-tier packet queueing system at the routers, driven by two trigger conditions. Comcast's ...

Slashdot found this 2 days ago on tech.slashdot.org

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Investor News

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:00:24 +0000

Comcast Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results PHILADELPHIA, Nov 04, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation, said, "The strength ...

DSLreports - front page found this 3 days ago on cmcsk.com

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Comcast announces new bandwidth throttling scheme

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:53:19 +0000

Gadgets @ GadgetHeat found this 33 hours ago on engadget.com

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OWC Mercury Pro FW800/400+USB2+eSata BluRa... (MRF8BDSD12X) at OWC

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:36:00 +0000

American Photo 2007 Award"OWC Mercury Blu-ray External While hard drives are cheap these days, serious shooters often back up image files to recordable DVDs because they're less vulnerable to physical damage and can be easily stored in multiple locations. The capacity of these disks is limited ...

Engadget found this 3 days ago on eshop.macsales.com

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Know When (and When Not) to Buy an Extended Warranty [Saving Money]

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

As a rule, extended warranties are rarely worth the extra cash. Tech site CNET goes in depth on why you don't want to shell out for the extended warranty, then discusses when it may actually be worth...

Gizmodo found this 2 days ago on lifehacker.com

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Apple's iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:57:18 +0000

Would you pay $30 a month to watch TV via iTunes? That's the pitch Apple has been making to TV networks in recent weeks. The company is trying to round up support for a monthly subscription service that would deliver TV programs via its multimedia software, multiple sources tell me. The ...

Gizmodo found this 4 days ago on mediamemo.allthingsd.com

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rays 'top scientific invention'

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:26:23 +0000

The public has voted the X-ray machine as the best invention, ahead of the Apollo 10 space capsule and Stephenson's Rocket. Out of nearly 50,000 votes cast, one in five people named it for having made the greatest impact on the past, present and future. Ten of the most significant objects in ...

T3.com All found this 3 days ago on news.bbc.co.uk

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Great Deals on Samsung Electronics LCD HDTV

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:20:25 +0000

SAVE $240! Samsung Electronics 22" 720p LCD HDTV - Refurbished only $259.99 (was $499.99) SAVE $300! Samsung Electronics 32" 1080p 120Hz Full High Definition LCD TV, Refurbished only $599.99 (was $899.99) SAVE $500! Samsung 40" 120Hz 1080p LCD HDTV w/Tuner, Refurbished only $699.99 (was ...

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Blu-ray Disc Player - XV-BP11

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:15:41 +0000

Introduction Blu-ray Disc Player with USB Host, featuring HD Audio Bit-Stream Output, HDMI 1080/24p Playback, and x.v.Color(TM)/Deep Color BD Profile 1.1 Playable Media: BD-ROM, BD-R/RE, DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, +R/+RW, CD, CD-R/RW, USB 1080/24p Playback HDMI with x.v.Color(TM)/Deep Color ...

Digital Trends found this 9 days ago on av.jvc.com

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Back in Stock Vizio VO320E 32" 720p LCD HDTV

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:12 +0000

You save 16%

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Back in Stock Vizio VA26L 26" 720p LCD HDTV

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:13:23 +0000

You save 21%

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uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

utorrent ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing down other applications and traffic. In early 2007, when network neutrality was still a ...

Download Squad found this 6 days ago on torrentfreak.com

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JVC XV-BP11 Blu-Ray Player now available in US

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:18:00 +0000

Good news for people who live in US, because JVC has recently announced their new XV-BP11 Blu-Ray Player that now available available in US for $199.95. The JVC XV-BP11 Blu-Ray Player provides playback of high definition Blu-ray with features a playback of the AVCHD files type, are you know? ...

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Comcast to enter mobile data market

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:50:45 +0000

The cable company/ISP Comcast is mulling a mobile data offering. Apparently, the company wants to extend the “Comcasting experience” to a laptop near you. And in that sense this page on their website is talking about 3G and 4G services. The latter is available “across ...

Rover found this 12 days ago on intomobile.com

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[Japanese] Integrated Blu-ray Disc VHS Video "DR-BH250" Released

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:03:42 +0000

Le Journal du Geek found this 8 days ago on victor.co.jp

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JVC throws new cheap XV-BP11 Blu-ray player to the wolves

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:02:46 +0000

This holiday season may well see the mass adoption of Blu-ray in many homes. We have the PS3 at a new bargain price sporting its Blu-ray capability and we are seeing new stand-alone Blu-ray players pop up at much more affordable prices. It wasn’t so long ago that Blu-ray players were ...

PR News: found this 9 days ago on slashgear.com

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VoIP Ringing Up Billions in Sales

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:00:15 +0000

Can you believe that VoIP-based telephony services brought in nearly $20.7 billion in revenues during the first six months of 2009? Incredulous as it might sound, it is indeed true, according to data reported by market research firm Infonetics Research. I fondly remember the early part of ...

DSLreports - front page found this 8 days ago on gigaom.com

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