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Comcast to Revamp Tablet Apps

by Mike Mansell January 6, 2011

Are you one of the millions of consumers who subscribe to cable services from Comcast? If so, your viewing options will potentially be changing in the coming days, as you will be able to stream television content to select mobile devices from wherever life may take you; be it at home, on the go, or [...]

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Could Automated Tech Support Be Life Threatening?

by Mike Mansell April 11, 2010

Using utility services against a resident is by no stretch of the imagination a new idea. In an episode of CSI, a stalker working for the cable company used his position to gain access to people’s homes. In the 2003 film, “The Italian Job”, a group of gold hijackers posed as a cable repair unit [...]

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ISPs Preparing For IPv6

by Matt Hodges June 18, 2009

Recently, Comcast demonstrated its network readiness for the switch to IPv6 addresses. Believe it or not, the internet is not infinite. In fact, it is running out of space rather quickly. That is, the current version of Internet Protocol is running out of space. What we now use is known as IPv4, and experts believe [...]

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Google Developing Tools To Detect ISP Throttling

by Jeff Weisbein June 14, 2008

In a time when broadband consumers are trying to get what they are paying for in terms of connection speeds in addition to wondering if their speeds are being throttled by their ISP (Internet Service Provider) Google has decided to step in and announce that they will be providing tools to detect if your ISP [...]

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