Technologizer

Here’s the iTunes TV Subscription I’d Pay For

Monday, November 2, 2009

Over at All Things Digital, Peter Kafka is reporting that he’s hearing that Apple wants to offer a $30 TV subscription service through iTunes, and is trying to stir up interest among content providers. He has very few details, but the basic idea of a technology company taking on cable with an Internet-based service appeals [...]

Comcast Launching On Demand Online Shortly

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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After testing out its latest online offering with about 5,000 customers earlier this summer, Comcast is set to launch On Demand Online with all customers by the end of the year, the company is saying. As we reported earlier, the feature would work much like Hulu does although it would be available only to Comcast [...]

The End of the Line for Landlines?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Ivan Seidenberg thinks that more and more people are going to decide that they simply don’t need a landline telephone anymore. Which is an interesting take on things given that he’s CEO of landline giant Verizon. Over at the New York Times, Saul Hansell has posted a story in which Seidenberg says he thinks the [...]

Courts Throw Out FCC Cable Market Share Limits

Friday, August 28, 2009

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In a potentially huge victory for Comcast, the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC threw out a rule limiting cable companies to under 30 percent of the market. The courts claimed that the FCC failed to take into account competition from satellite and fiber-optic providers when considering competition. Comcast currently controls about 25 percent of [...]

Comcast’s iPhone App Somewhat Comcastic

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Cable provider Comcast has joined the legions of service providers and companies creating their own iPhone apps to interface with their services and offerings. It would be most useful to those with the so called “triple play” package: cable, Internet, and phone service. The main functionality of this application splits into three parts. The first is [...]

On Demand Online: Reason to Stick With Comcast?

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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I keep talking about dumping Comcast, but I’m beginning to think it’s more inevitable than death or taxes. (I recently tried to cancel my Comcast phone line, and they told me that doing so would raise my monthly bill by $4. Checkmate!) If I stick around with Comcast, I might as well enjoy it–and I’m guardedly [...]

Comcast Turns to WiMAX in Portland

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Comcast is using Clearwire’s network to offer its customers wireless high speed Internet in Portland, Oregon, and plans to launch the service in Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia by the end of 2009. Called Comcast High-Speed 2go, it would offer speeds of up to 4 MBps. To entice customers to sign up for the service, the cable [...]

5Words for March 17th, 2009

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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Happy Saint Paddy’s day, everybody! Sneak peek: Dell’s Adamo notebook. Macworld’s iPhone 3.0 wish list. Three More HTC Android phones. Nine-hour MSI Wind netbook. Comcast passwords exposed on Web. Super-fast game download service. Boxee does an iPhone remote control. Best Buy takes on Walmart. Rough February for Macs, iPods. HP adds long-life batteries. Nintendo victorious in remote lawsuit. Vatican: Serious about the Internet.

Life Without Comcast: An Update

Monday, February 23, 2009

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I’ve been remiss in not updating you on my experiment in using an Apple TV with Boxee’s media-center software as a substitute for my pricey Comcast service. “Life Without Comcast” may be a misleading title, since I haven’t tried to go cold turkey–instead, I’ve done some of my TV watching via cable, and some via [...]

Comcast OnDemand Goes Online

Friday, February 20, 2009

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Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer has posted a worthwhile read on Comcast’s upcoming Internet TV service, which is due later this year. It’s tentatively called OnDemand Online, and it sounds like it’ll be a rough equivalent of the company’s OnDemand cable service, featuring content from cable channels and available only to Comcast subscribers. It’s in [...]

5Words for February 18th, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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Late today–I’ve been airborne: Facebook reverts to old terms. Intel and Nvidia’s legal tussle. Folks are dropping cable, apparently. Tumblr shuts down unkind blogs. Verizon preps for 4G wireless. Mozilla: iPhone jailbreaking is OK Microsoft kills subscription software offering Text in school, get arrested. Time to stop using CAPTCHA? Western Digital’s remotely-accessible drive. April 5th arrival for Nintendo DSi.

Life Without Comcast: Watching the Inauguration…or Trying To, at Least

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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I’m still trying to do much of my TV watching via an Apple TV box running Boxee hooked up to a TV that doesn’t have cable. This morning, however, I discovered that it’s not a great way to watch a once-in-a-lifetime event. Actually, the Internet isn’t great at broadcasting once-in-a-lifetime events yet. I’d heard that Hulu [...]

Comcast Back On FCC’s Naughty List

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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Okay, I could have titled this a little less PC, but hey this is a family site. Anyway, the FCC is looking into the cable provider’s practices surrounding its VoIP service. And surprise, surprise: it has to do with net neutrality once again. The charge is that Comcast is giving preferential treatment to its own phone [...]

Life Without Comcast: An Experiment in Internet TV

Friday, January 16, 2009

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Maybe the title of this new Technologizer series is unfair. I don’t despise Comcast, the company who I’ve been paying for cable TV service for the past six months. (Until then, at my old pad, I was a DirecTV man.) But I don’t love it, either–especially the part about paying it a large amount of [...]

Comcast to Debut Bandwidth Usage Tracking Tool

Friday, December 5, 2008

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DSL Reports says Comcast sources are saying the cable provider is set to begin offering subscribers a method to track their bandwidth usage through the company’s online account management tool. The company had previously implemented a 250GB cap in October after mulling a limit for almost a half a year. Data would not be delayed three [...]

Comcast: All You Can Eat…Up to 250GB!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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How much data do I download from the Internet a month? I have no idea, and it’s probably not all that much. But I’m still concerned about Comcast’s plan to cut off customers who are a little download-crazy.