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Comcast passes Vonage in digital voice subscriber rankings: A report from the Yankee Group now shows that Vonage has recently lost its ranking as the Internet phone service with the most subscribers.Noted on PC Magazine's website this morning, the Yankee Group now says Comcast Digital Voice basic connection diagram at the top of this post reported 2.4 million...; Tags: Vonage, Comcast; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Poll: OK, here are the four things wrong with Comcast: When I read fellow blogger Alan Graham's What's Wrong With Comcast? post, I immediately began experiencing multiple deja vu flashbacks.First, to summarize. Back in January, Alan decided to cut back on his Comcast cable tv but retain some of his other Comcast services.His monthly Comcast bill should have been less,...; Tags: Comcast; Blog posts 2007-07-06
Comcast opens Second Life "theme park": Comcast now has its own Second Life world.It's actually an online theme park- and it's called Comcastic Island. No, you won't be able to pay your Comcash bill in Linden Dollars (or even in U.S. currency) but you will be able to participate in a racetrack, Jet Ski track...; Tags: Comcast, News, Second Life; Blog posts 2007-06-15
Hey Qwest, you are NOT as fast as my Comcast: A missive from regional telco provider Qwest's p.r. firm arrived in my Inbox yesterday.The email contained news of a "survey" of 100 Comcast and Qwest broadband customers performing a set of outlined tasks at two identical computers -- one connected to Qwest's premium product (5 to 7 megs) and one...; Tags: Comcast; Blog posts 2007-05-22
Hey Vonage, it's a STAY, not a WIN: In the somewhat self-delusional world that some Vonage execs, analysts and users seem to inhabit, yesterdays stay of an order allowing Vonage to keep signing up new customers until the patent infringement issues with Verizon are settled amounts to a win.I have a hard time viewing this attitude as reality....; Tags: Vonage, Regulatory, General, Comcast; Blog posts 2007-04-25

Leaked Comcast memo: charges for formerly free service calls are coming: According to an internal Comcast PowerPoint file received by the Consumerist website, Comcast is adopting a policy that beginning this month, will allow significantly more wiggle room for service technicans to charge for home visits that used to be free.Among the ch-ch-changes mentioned in the file, and then...; Tags: General, Comcast; Blog posts 2007-04-23
Comcast should surcharge bandwidth hogs, Torrents downloaders: PCMag.coms Chloe Albanesius has gotten quite a reaction from her Wednesday story that Comcast is cutting off "bandwidth hogs" whose downloads are far in excess of what the broadband access provider thinks is about right.She mentions one case of a customer who downloaded 550 gigabytes of stuff, and whose service...; Tags: Comcast, General; Blog posts 2007-04-06
Rock breaks scissors, bullets break Comcast fiber: Cable tv publication Multichannel News reports that gunshot damage to Comcasts fiber-optic main service line took down cable service for some 7,500 customers in Palm Beach county, Florida.Service disruptions lasted from New Years Eve until early on January 3. Some 20 separate nodes were affected.It wasnt an overly ticked-off customer...; Tags: General, Comcast, News, fiber; Blog posts 2007-01-08
#9 Most-Read Post in 2006: "Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast Connection quality": This week, I am going to count down the Top 10 most-read items on this blog during 2006. Number 9 is "Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast connection quality."Originally posted back on March 1, the controversy first flared when a Vonage Forum Member named rdstoll began a...; Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., Comcast Corp.; Blog posts 2006-12-18
Comcast Digital Voice ramps up the "we're NOT over the Internet" message: Ever since Comcast has been offering their Comcast Digital Voice service, theyve been marketing the fact that this service travels over Comcast connections and not the public Internet. As shown above, theres this eMTA embedded Multimedia Terminal Adapter that the installer comes to your home and sets up -...; Tags: Comcast Corp., General, Comcast; Blog posts 2006-12-05
Comcast VoIP 1, Dave "Grandfather of Internet" Farber, 0: And so, as Rich Tehrani reports, it played out in a Texas courtroom yesterday when Comcast successfully defended itself against a $2.2 billion lawsuit filed by Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, who is often cited as the "grandfather of the Internet," holds a series of VoIP-related patents. That was, and is,...; Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Internet, Comcast Corp., conferee, telephone, Caritas Techologies.Dave Farber, patent, VoIP, in-charge conferee, PSTN, network; Blog posts 2006-11-14

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Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon: Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...; Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced: Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...; Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date: Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...; Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Diary of a dial-up user (part 4 - final): Diary of a dial-up user (part 4 - final)Bummer!When I saw "final" in the title, I thought it was time to offer some congratulations. I guess not, eh? Well, they say "desperate times call for desperate measures." Think you're ready to try something like this?http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/75YearOld-Woman-Takes-Hammer-to-Comcast-Office-88272; Tags: diary; Discussion threads 2008-07-17
Top US search engines in May 2008: Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches All Search 7,849,553 9.5% 100.0% 1. Google Search 4,654,624 15.4% 59.3% 2. Yahoo! Search 1,328,667 -13.8% 16.9% 3. MSN/Windows Live Search 1,043,848 72.4% 13.3% 4. AOL Search 322,454 15.6% 4.1% ...; Tags: Search Engine, E-mail Providers, Search, Cloud Computing, Internet, NB; Blog posts 2008-07-16
DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?: DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?DIRECTV postJason - Sounds like an incredibly frustrating experience. I am really surprised the DirecTV employee would suggest disconnecting your service. The "D-word" should never be initiated or used by the employee -- Call Center...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DirecTV, TiVo Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-14
Top US Web sites in May 2008: Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Internet 190,858 1 Google Sites 143,389 2 Yahoo! Sites 142,925 3 Microsoft Sites 121,257 4 AOL LLC 111,395 5 Fox Interactive Media 89,424 6 eBay 78,271 7 Wikipedia...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Advertising & Promotion, Wiki, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, NB; Blog posts 2008-07-14
News to know Monday: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo rejects latest Microsoft-Icahn proposal; Calls Microsoft 'erratic' WSJ: New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight Dana Blankenhorn: We don't want you to talk, Mr. Ballmer Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, sdiaz; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Wow! FCC to punish Comcast: Wow! FCC to punish ComcastSo I guess what will happenis Comcast will pay the government fines for what they would have overcharged their customers. So that would mean a net zero for Comcast, a net plus for the government, and a net loss for Comcast customers. Pretty slick.RE: Wow! FCC...; Tags: Federal government, Comcast Corp., FCC, Wow!; Discussion threads 2008-07-11

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