Thursday - May 8, 2008
In a move sure to renew debate over how broadband access should be sold, Comcast is reportedly mulling a cap on how much data a customer buying its basic high-speed Internet access package can use each month. Comcast, the No. 2 provider of high-speed Web access in the U.S., would establish a preset monthly data usage level and then charge a fee for users who exceed that level. Reports of the possible move first appeared Wednesday on the BroadbandReports.com Web site.
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Wednesday - May 7, 2008
Cablevision Systems is buying the Sundance Channel, a cable network founded by Robert Redford, for $496 million, the New York-area cable TV company announced Wednesday. The Sundance Channel will become part of Cablevision's Rainbow Media programming division but will continue on as a distinct network. Rainbow also includes the independent movie channel IFC, AMC and WE tv.
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Friday - May 2, 2008
eBay's strange legal dispute with Craigslist just got weirder. The auction giant has disclosed the details of its lawsuit against the king of online classifieds, and here's what the dispute boils down to: eBay took a stake in Craigslist, agreeing to certain conditions regarding competitive behavior.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
Promotional offers and higher cable television spending fueled the first-quarter profits of Comcast, which showed limited effects from an economic slowdown. The nation's largest cable operator posted a 12.5 percent decline in profits, but it was mainly due to one-time gains from the dissolution of cable partnerships.
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Wednesday - April 30, 2008
Media giant Time Warner plans to sell off its remaining 84 percent stake in its recently spun-off cable company. The company unveiled the strategy as it posted weaker profit and its AOL Web portal grew modestly in advertising revenue. Time Warner said net profit for the first quarter was $771 million, or 21 cents per share, down 36 percent from the $1.2 billion posted in the same quarter a year ago.
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Friday - April 25, 2008
It seems there's no love lost between FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Comcast. In testimony before a Senate committee about the practice of blocking peer-to-peer traffic on the Internet, Martin said Comcast lied when it described its practices to the FCC. Comcast maintained that it was merely engaging in justifiable management of network traffic in order to preserve the Internet experience for all customers.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Comcast has lied about how and why it blocks peer-to-peer Internet traffic, and may be lying in its promise to stop some of its practices by year end, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said during a hearing held by a Senate committee on the future of the Internet.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
In Brent Swanson's basement home theater, there should be nothing drab about "Battlestar Galactica." He's got a high-end projector that beams the picture onto a wall painted like a silver screen, and speakers loom in the corners, flanking two big subwoofers. Yet when he tuned in Sci Fi HD for a recent episode filmed in high definition, the image was soft.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
Taken aback by the intense outcry that arose over reports that it blocked or slowed down traffic to peer-to-peer file-sharing Web sites, Comcast has graciously offered to police itself. The company will begin testing technology from Pando Networks that's designed to smooth the journey of BitTorrent data through its pipes.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
Verizon has filed a lawsuit against Time Warner Cable, claiming that company's advertising gives a false impression about the telecom firm's new fiber optic-based TV service. Verizon filed the suit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
Last year, when Viacom visited YouTube and spotted shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other content producers it owns, it decided to act quickly -- and the only quick reaction a company of Viacom's size is capable of in that sort of situation is to sue. Only after many months did other giant TV networks put the finishing touches on Hulu, a site that does basically the same thing that YouTube had been doing.
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