Monthly Archives: July 2011

FM sports radio station gives KNBR a challengerSan Jose Mercury NewsDan Dibley, a onetime anchor/co-host on KNBR, is scheduled for the morning, and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area insiders Mychael Urban, Matt Maiocco, Matt Steinmetz and Brodie Brazil will be regular … Continue reading →

Appolicious – I don’t really feel like my Internet reading needs to be more social, but the team at Scribd, the web publishing company, feels a bit differently, as evidenced by its new social reading app Float Reader, for iPhones … Continue reading →

3 Reasons You Shouldn't Ignore GEmsnbc.comAnd if you remove the sale of NBC Universal to Comcast, revenues rose 7%. It appears the company has begun to recover from the effects of the recession and GE Capital's unwise pre-meltdown investment decisions. … Continue reading →

Mashable – Nova Spivack has several ventures in production that focus on the real-time stream, including Bottlenose (for filtering the stream), StreamGlider (a new mobile stream delivery platform), Live Matrix (the schedule of the live web), and The Daily Dot … Continue reading →

Xfinity Signature Support now available to Comcast customersNewark PostComcast Corporation announced that its Xfinity Signature Support, a "personal helpdesk" service for computers, home networking equipment and many other devices customers are connecting to their Comcast services, is now available to … Continue reading →

NEW YORK – As big banner ads in Times Square last week hyped Universal’s hoped-for blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens, the movie studio’s parent company, NBCUniversal, held a screening of the western sci-fi thriller at its private theater near Rockefeller Center. … Continue reading →

With Universal, Comcast hopes to make a big splash in movies | Philadelphia …Philadelphia InquirerThere was another message for the gathered media – that the famed Universal Pictures movie studio that had fallen on hard times in recent years is … Continue reading →

Going Google – at workPioneer PressThe 81-year-old Minneapolis company got by with a cheap, bare-bones EarthLink email account. But 18 months ago, vice president and co-owner Todd Ferrara got the idea to dump EarthLink and leap into cloud computing with … Continue reading →

Digitaltrends.com Rovi sues Hulu over program guide patentsReutersWe can probably expect more of these lawsuits, as Rovi claims more than 1100 patents related to program guides, which it has licensed to a number of distributors and consumer electronics manufacturers such … Continue reading →

Jason Babin Arrives In Eagles Camp, Talks Washburn & SecondaryBleeding Green Nationby JasonB on Jul 30, 2011 3:00 PM EDT in Philadelphia Eagles News As announced previously in this space, XFINITY from Comcast has generously agreed to support the best … Continue reading →

AFP – Indian police have arrested two top officials of Singapore-based online survey company Speak Asia in Mumbai for allegedly duping investors out of $294 million, reports said Saturday. Original story here.

More public input sought on ComcastHattiesburg AmericanMembers of the public will get one last chance to weigh in on the city of Hattiesburg's new franchise agreement with Comcast of Southern Mississippi on Monday during a special meeting with Hattiesburg City … Continue reading →

Boston Globe Attack suspects pleadAttleboro Sun Chronicle(Staff photo by Martin Gavin) ATTLEBORO – The victim of a brutal beating at the Comcast Center in Mansfield is healing in the hospital but faces a lengthy recovery, his parents said Friday after … Continue reading →

Phone, Internet connections restored only after multiple visits by technicians One of the thunderstorms that swept through the Chicago area did quite a number on Patty Caproni’s Comcast service, which was restored only after multiple visits by technicians. Original story … Continue reading →

Problem Solver: Comcast response cloudy after stormChicago TribuneOne of the thunderstorms that swept through the Chicago area did quite a number on Patty Caproni's Comcast service. The storm knocked out her Internet and rendered her phone line nearly useless. Although … Continue reading →