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Comcast to place limits on Internet use

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Starting October 1, Comcast will cap its customers’ monthly use of the Internet to 250 gigabytes per account.
That’s the equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies for all residential high-speed Internet customers, Reuters reported.
Comcast said customers who exceed the limit may be called by Comcast’s Customer Security Assurance group, and those who go [...]

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Comcast To Become Plaxo’s Owner

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Comcast announced Wednesday that it will acquire social network site pioneer Plaxo. The deal is valued somewhere around $135million to $175 million, and is intended to make the social portal part of Comcast Interactive Media. Plaxo will remain located in Silicon Valley and one of the things it could do is work with Comcast’s [...]

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Comcast monitoring Twitter, blogs and other social media

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Have a complaint with cable company Comcast? Don’t bother calling their helpline: Instead write a blog entry or, better still, send a ‘tweet’ or two via Twitter threatening to “expend significant energy over the next three weeks trashing Comcast.” That’s the lesson taught by TechCrunch founder and co-editor Mike Arrington, after his Comcast broadband connection [...]

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