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Let’s Look At Credit Score Rankings By Email Domains
3:40PM Rosa Golijan | Ranking the highest according to a sample of 20,000 credit scores and their corresponding email addresses are BellSouth and Comcast, with Gmail trailing right behind. Reasonable enough, but what’s AOL doing anywhere but at the bottom? [Mashable] More »
Business
Comcast Is Buying Up NBC Universal
11:35PM Matt Buchanan | Comcast and GE are in the “midst of due diligence” for a deal that would give a Comcast 51 per cent stake in NBC Universal, and GE 49 per cent. It would merge with its own cable networks. The sticking point, for now, is Vivendi’s 20 per cent stake and its asking price of $US6.3 billion. But, since GE and Comcast both “appear to favour” the deal, we can still probably expect 30 Rock cracks about having Comcastic days next season. [WSJ]
Online
Gmail, Yahoo Users Also Caught In Web Mail Phishing Scam
12:40AM Danny Allen | As you may have heard, about 10,000 Hotmail passwords were leaked online yesterday, and that list only started with the letters A and B. At that rate, over 100,000 users could have been lured into giving their passwords to fake websites. Now the BBC says it’s seen a list on the same Website that had more than 20,000 email accounts — this time with addresses from Gmail, Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink and AOL. More »
Networks
Not Many People Use Standalone CableCards
10:36PM Mark Wilson | By law in the US, cable operators must offer standalone CableCards, used in everything from TVs to HTPCs to Tivos, to encourage competition with and choice beyond standard, clunky settop boxes. But not all that many people take advantage of the policy. More »
Networks
Comcast To FCC: FUZZOFF!
6:13AM Jesus Diaz | As soon as FCC’s Julius Genachowski takes out his mighty sword to kill internet providers’ greed-driven traffic filtering, the fat cats are already attacking. A Comcast fat cat named David L. Cohen, who of course is playing the FUD card. More »
Business
US Broadband Providers Seek Excuses, Money To Continue Sucking
12:40AM Adam Frucci | US broadband is slower than many other countries, and our broadband providers want it to stay that way. They’re pushing for low standards in the FCC’s definition of “broadband” that’ll be used when handing out stimulus funds. More »
Business
Comcast Could Be Quietly Preparing Plan To Control Pipes and Content
7:20AM Jack Loftus | Tea leaf-reading analysts are speculating this afternoon that Comcast is currently hoarding cash as part of an effort to revisit its 2003 spending spree days. You remember 2003, right? That was the year Comcast made a brash $US54 billion bid for Disney. More »
Networks
Exclusive: WiMax Uncapped Speed Tests
3:00AM Wilson Rothman | A cable modem in your pocket. Rockin’ down the highway with video on demand. Real wireless broadband. I tested an unthrottled Clearwire WiMax connection all over Portland, and that’s (mostly) what I got. More »
Business
Sony Style Comcast Labs, a Joint Retail Store, Opens Tomorrow In Philly
4:10AM John Mahoney | Watch out Apple! Sony is clearly gunning for a chunk of your stylish retail business by partnering with a name known for its popularity amongst customers and its excellent support and services: Comcast. More »
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