Word: comcasts
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...limited university bandwidth were hindered, so many schools (Harvard included) set out policies which gave preference to web and e-mail traffic over peer-to-peer file sharing. Another reason for sidestepping end-to-end, however, has certain technophiles up in arms: money. Some Internet providers, such as Comcast, offer new Internet telephony services. But a traditional phone conversation effectively gets its own dedicated pair of wires. So if Comcast’s telephone service is going to compete, it’s going to need to give its users equally good guarantees on their network, ahead of ordinary Internet...
...network, cut a deal with iTunes to sell episodes of shows such as Lost and Desperate Housewives for $1.99 apiece. A few weeks later CBS and NBC Universal struck deals to sell shows, hours after their airing, via video on demand (VOD) for 99¢ a pop from cable company Comcast and satellite company DirecTV, respectively. (The CBS service debuts in January; NBC's, early next year...
...work with Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Time Warner and Comcast. [Younger] consumers are very driven by the media functionality that will be delivered to those devices. With Apple, we worked hard to figure out how to integrate more closely into their technology. We have looked at partnering with them in other ways too, and we have a good relationship. So there are opportunities there...
...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
...DATING ON DEMAND Comcast Digital Cable customers can watch video profiles and then log on through Hurrydate.com to contact prospects they find attractive. Users who want to star in their own digital dramas can shoot and upload video personals. --By Jeremy Caplan