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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Predictably, FCC Action on Comcast Spurs No End of Whining

kidcryingThe Federal Communications Commission likes to describe the enforcement action it took against Comcast for its overzealous network management techniques as “modest.” Which is an apt description, since the FCC measure really contained no substantive punishment. Certainly, requiring Comcast to disclose more information about its traffic management practices seems a mere slap on the wrist for a company that deliberately interfered with BitTorrent traffic in violation of Internet openness principles. But Comcast, which wants a court to reverse and vacate the FCC decision, feels that even it was too much.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

McCain Gets Mavericky on Net Neutrality

mccainThey don’t call Sen. John McCain a maverick for nothing. Just hours after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski officially unveiled Net neutrality rules, the Arizona Republican introduced a bill that would prohibit the Commission from enacting them.

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Monday, September 21, 2009

FCC Chair Proposes Net Neutrality Rules

netneutrailytFederal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski this morning proposed broad new rules prohibiting Internet providers–both wireless and wireline–from selectively blocking or slowing Internet traffic. “It is vital that we safeguard the free and open Internet,” Genachowski said during at event at the Brookings Institute. After the jump, Genachowski’s speech in full.

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Comcast Not Really Feeling All That “Comcastic” Right Now

comcastic_thumbThe econalypse and the job losses and lower housing starts it’s brought with it are having a nasty effect on Comcast’s bottom line. And according to CEO Brian Roberts, that’s not going to change any time soon. “It’s still a scary time,” he said in remarks at Sanford Bernstein’s 25th annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York.

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Weekend Update, 05.23.09

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This Weekend Update is particularly exciting because of all the things happening here at All Things Digital. There is, of course, the upcoming D7 Conference, which promises to be more tech-extravaganza fun than a tweet from @sockington (if only half as cute), but this past week has also seen the launch of our very own iPhone app, meaning that ATD has gone mobile–smart news for your smartphone (we’re still working out potential taglines).

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Finally: Disney, Hulu Deal Announced

mickeysgalaTook ’em long enough. After weeks of rumor and speculation, Walt Disney Co. has finally taken a stake in Hulu, the video-streaming site operated by NBC Universal, News Corporation and Providence Equity Partners. Financial terms and the structure of the deal weren’t disclosed, but sources say Disney’s stake in the venture will be 27 percent.

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Weekend Update 2.21.09

slapdownsmlThis weekend, AllThingsD.com is distributing awards for Best Performance in a ToS Slapdown, Fastest Disappearing Subscriber Base, and Best Conference to Attend in February If It’s Cold Where You Live. If all involved keep their remarks on topic, things should move along quickly.

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Monday, February 2, 2009

Korea: Come for the Soju, Stay for the Broadband

The typical real-time Internet connection speed in the United States is a mortifying 2.35 megabits per second, so it’s particularly galling to hear that Korea, which already offers its citizens broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps, is planning to introduce 1Gbps service by 2012.

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QOTD: Wardrobe Malfunction?

I just figured it was another commercial until I looked up. Then he did his little dance with everything hanging out.”
– A Comcast viewer describes the porn clip the cable provider mistakenly aired during last night’s Super Bowl broadcast.

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Monday, December 1, 2008

Clearwire as Mud

Ironic, isn’t it, that the nationwide WiMAX network created by the $14.5 billion merger of Clearwire and Sprint Nextel is to be rebranded as “Clear,” since the joint-venture transaction that spawned it as about as muddy as they come.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Amazon to Investors: We Wish You a Lousy Xmas

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Coming Soon: Relatively Fast Broadband With “Unnecessary Superlative Boost”™

With U.S. broadband speeds lagging far behind European and Asian countries, Comcast is finally doing its part to bring the country’s lousy broadband Internet services into parity with those of other industrialized nations. You know, like Iceland. Or South Korea.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Wall Street: Give Me Something to Stop the Bleeding


Wall Street’s 777-point selloff on Monday–one of its worst days since 1929–hit many tech stocks harder even than the overall market on Monday. Said Ross Sandler, senior Internet analyst at RBC Capital Markets, “Tech took it on the chin disproportionately.” Indeed, it did. And a couple of other places as well, from the looks of things. A quick overview of the carnage.

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Friday, September 5, 2008

Comcast’s Courtroom Drama

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

A Little Cheese With That Whine, Comcast?

As predictable as day following night, litigation has followed the Federal Communications Commission’s sanctions against Comcast. In a long-expected action, Comcast sued the commission today claiming the FCC had no legal grounds on which to punish it for throttling file-sharing traffic on its network.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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