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Comcast Shut Me Down Again

Dave Winer | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media

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Dave Winer

Comcast's answer to me is: 1. Pay $183 per month. 2. I should care whether they like me or not. 3. They'll shut me down when they want me to call. 4. They don't care if it's right before Obama's speech in Berlin or not.

Charging By Amount Of Internet Use: Bandwidth Metering Looms (VIDEO)

Wallstrip | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business


Wallstrip's Julie Alexandra talks about the impending struggle for bandwidth freedom as Internet providers consider charging users for heavy Web use. ...

JC Watts Planning Black Television News Network

New York Post | Don Kaplan | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media


Former congressman J.C. Watts is behind a major push to launch an all-news channel for black people. The network, tentatively called Black Television...

Comcast Refuses To Attend FCC Hearing

Portfolio.com | Sam Gustin | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media


Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has opted to sit out tomorrow's Federal Communications Commission hearing on broadband network management...

Comcast, Sprint, Google May Fund WiMax

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


PHILADELPHIA — Major cable, telecom and Internet companies are in preliminary, but serious, talks to create a national wireless network that wou...

Will Mexican Billionaire Helu Buy Sprint?

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Sprint Nextel has no shortage of supposed suitors: Pretty much every phone company, Google (GOOG), and Comcast (CMCSA) have all been rumored as intere...

F.C.C. Chairman: Comcast "Packing" No Big Deal

Portfolio | Sam Gustin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Federal Communications Commission acknowledges that Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, paid people to attend last week's public meeting ...

Comcast Floods FCC Hearing With Paid Placeholders: Critics

Portfolio | Sam Gustin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


How big are the stakes in the so-called network neutrality debate now raging before Congress and federal regulators? Consider this: One side in the d...

Recession Could Crush Palm, Hurt RIM, Ding Motorola: Citi

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


We already know that the softening U.S. economy has affected telecom carriers AT&T and Comcast. How about cellphone makers? Yep, they're at risk too. ...

Comcast Plans Ambitious Increase Of On-Demand TV Shows, Movies

Fortune | Tim Arango | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Comcast, the nation's largest cable television company, will outline an ambitious plan Tuesday to set up two new paradigms for how people will watch m...

Source: Weather Channel For Sale

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Weather Channel, one of the last privately owned cable channels, is being put up for sale and could fetch more than $5 billion, according to peopl...

Cramer: Why You Can't Own Big Media Stocks

Blogging Stocks | Jim Cramer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


No price is holding for media stocks again. Even though Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) (Cramer's Take) has some fabulous properties, properties that are doin...

Comcast Actively Blocking Some Internet Traffic

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the ...