Comcast has announced that it has added 18 new channels to its On Demand Online service, including premium content from channels such as HBO.
The cable company will begin a trial of the service next week, with a small 5000 subscriber beta stage. The service should be available to all Comcast subscribers by the end [...]

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CBS Corp., Time Warner, Inc. and several other media companies will participate in a Web-TV trial with cable operator Comcast Corp. later this month. Their aim is to make more TV shows available online, but only for subscribers of Comcast’s cable service. The idea here is to preserve a [...]

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Magic Jack generally works well but, just like Skype on a phone through my computer, I found that people had problems hearing me. I often sounded garbled.
I found a solution. On a hunch, I bought an external, USB-based wi-fi receiver, bypassing the internal wi-fi on my new HP laptop. Huge difference. The [...]

It was reported last month that CBS was likely to take part in the Comcast On Demand Online trial and now it’s official. CBS is the first broadcast network to sign on and will test a mix of current and library content in the national trial slated to start later this [...]

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Twitter is becoming ever-more powerful. You can tell when businesses, brands and governments start putting skin in the game.
Were you just as shocked as I was to see the attention that the general election in Canada was giving to Twitter on the night that we chose our government? Every so often, the TV hosts would [...]

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Twitter has become many things to many people and organizations for that matter, including Comcast.  It really says something when a company experiences the bite of consumer malcontent via social media and then turns around and becomes known as a best [...]

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High-Definition TVs are now in more than 30 million U.S. homes and that number continues to rise. This makes the high-def audience a prime target for HD-related companies.
And when businesses are in highly competitive category, such as high-def, they will tend to be more aggressive in marketing campaigns designed to win over [...]