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Cable: Act, Don't React

Cable: Act, Don't React21-Hour coincidence?Isn't it amazing that the outage "happens" to get fixed just before the 24-hour point? After 24 hours, they would be stuck to give refunds, but it was fixed "just in time."Amazing.I've been through it many times.I dont quite understand what you mean here..."[i]If this household...

Tags: INTERNET, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Charter Cable, cable, phone

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Frustrated VoIP Customer: ""Number Portability My Ass"

Fellow VoIP blogger Tom Keating is most circumspect when it comes to even PG-rated four-letter words.Today he writes of his incalculable frustration attempting to port his Vonage number over to Charter Cable. He had intended to do so because he was frustrated with some Vonage call quality issues, but was...

Tags: Tom, Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-09-05

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Samsung Blue Earth

Photo gallery:Samsung Blue EarthAs it does with most trends, Samsung is pursuing eco-friendly cell phones with vigor. It already gave us the Samsung Reclaim, and now we finally have a chance to review the Samsung Blue Earth. Forgive us if we're a bit excited, but Samsung has been holding this...

Tags: Keyboards, Cellular phones, Blue Earth, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-23

Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?

Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?Up to 101Mbps is not fastI get a MINIMUM of 100 Mbps plus VoIP including the phone for a whopping $20/month. No limits. No caps. I don't live in America, but you guys are getting seriously ripped off. Just my 2 cents.Fastest service where...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, Manufacturing, Broadband Internet, Optimum Ultra, Fios, Cablevision Systems Corp., fiber, Long Island

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

The Harsh Reality of Suburban Broadband, Part Deux

The Harsh Reality of Suburban Broadband, Part DeuxReminds me of Comcast.Back when I was a customer of theirs, I had some troubles. I eventually got to a tech support person that actually understood what I was talking about when I told them the IP address of the equipment on the...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Part Deux, suburban broadband, broadband

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Microsoft struggles with Xbox vs. Windows Media Center positioning

Microsoft struggles with Xbox vs. Windows Media Center positioningUnacceptableI am hoping they will change this. Media Center is a good product. I do not want to have to hook my laptop to my TV just to watch a movie. If this is the direction they are going with their 3...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Game players, Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Media Center, positioning, Microsoft Corp., NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Medi

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

R.I.P., NebuAd. But, What If You Had Just Asked For The User's Consent?

NebuAd, the controversial company that had sought to target online ads based on user behavior, is dead, at last. The company's services were actually appealing to some cable companies who act as Internet service providers, such as Charter Communications and Bresnan Communications. But...

Tags: User Behavior, Consent, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-20

As economy plummets, cable, satellite TV bills are on the rise

As economy plummets, cable, satellite TV bills are on the riseThe Internet is the future of mediaWe dropped cable 6 months ago. We found a local ISP and got 12M down, 2M up for $50 a month and kicked $110 a month of Time Warner out the door. A decent...

Tags: Network technology, Satellite TV, TVs, TV & Home Theater, cable, TV, satellite, satellite television

Discussion threads 2009-04-21

Rowing Cable’s Canoe: An ‘Ecological Play’

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cable operators are regional. They want to bring in national ad dollars. And they want to take ad dollars back from targeted ad-sellers online like market leader Google. So the six biggest players â€" Comcast, Time Warner...

Tags: Advertisement, Canoe Ventures, David Verklin, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contact

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contactThanks for the pointerI guess that if they don't respond, I'll continue to comment here on what I learn from others...Dan KYou'll never hear back from themunless you sent them numerous certified letters. I sent Comcast a few certified letters back in October...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Comcast Corp., Outrageous Comcast customer agreement, Outrageous Comcast, customer agreement

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

The Web video showdown: Content providers, cable companies and the users stuck in the middle

The Web video showdown: Content providers, cable companies and the users stuck in the middleBye Bye CableI seem to be in this boat. Paying $500 a year for basic cable which I was barely watching. Decided to go to HD Antenna and get 8 channels for the price...

Tags: Network technology, video, cable, cable company, Comcast Corp., Internet video

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

Why ComCast hates - and fears - the Internet

Why ComCast hates - and fears - the InternetCooling process"Gigabit Ethernet to every home should be a national goal. Let people, not companies, decide what they want to see. Let entrepreneurs build new services to use that bandwidth and see what happens."I agree with the UK government's answer to piracy...

Tags: NETWORKING, Comcast Corp., Internet

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

"Net neutrality" is stupid

"Net neutrality" is stupidThe problem, mixing social with business.The problem here is Robin is trying to treat a massive business investment billions in captial investment as if its a socialized publicly owned utility which it is not.Other countries subsidise connectivity/ISPs because they believe having broadband everywhere is critical to their...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Net Neutrality, Google Inc., service level, telecommunications company, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?

Are you being gouged on your cable bill?cableI was receiving the standard package about 50 channels, costing about 29.99 - in 8 months with no changes the cost escallated to 80.00, they lost a customer, there is no explaination for the cost increase, there is no one checking them either.COX...

Tags: Network technology, DirectTV, cable, cable company, Cox Cable

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo

How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVoI think you meant..."With the TiVo DVR, whatever you programmed in last takes priority." From context I think you mean that this happens with the Time Warner SA DVR, since on a TiVo by default new SPs get the *lowest* priority...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, OK IT, TiVo Inc., digital video recorder

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

U.S. Internet down by law, not market

U.S. Internet down by law, not marketPlease refrain from the BS, Dana[i]ISPs are free to set terms and conditions of service, but if those terms become onorous the consumer can simply change carriers[/i]And we cannot?If I do not like Comcast I can move to Verizon, Cavalier, AOL, ATX, the list...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, broadcaster

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

The harsh reality of suburban broadband

The harsh reality of suburban broadbandi live in parsippanyand my Optimum line does not go down ever! I've had it for over a year now and I have decided to not even consider switching to FIOS as I have zero issues of any kind. My speed test results are 27468...

Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cable, suburban broadband, harsh reality, broadband, Fios, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Googlenomics, Shrugged

Come the morning of September 7, you’ll probably go to the Google search box and find a fun-loving in-house artist has replaced the first “o� in the company name with a symbol that looks like a “1� and the second "o" with a slightly altered version...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-20

Lawsuit: Comcast is a 'totalitarian' business

Lawsuit: Comcast is a 'totalitarian' businessThere is a REASON . . . .that they are known as CRAPCAST!!!RE: Lawsuit: Comcast is a 'totalitarian' businessCharter was using a similar tactic when they cut the bandwidth to they newsgroup servers down to 128k and claimed no knowledge of the slow down.Comcast didn't...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-20