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October 2010 (25)

28Oct
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Ed Burns and Nice Guy Johnny

Last month, we announced we are bringing more indie film content to our customers through our Indie Film Club On Demand and online. As part of this initiative, we sat down with Ed Burns, whose film Nice Guy Johnny, was...

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27Oct
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Comcast First To Launch SHOWTIME Online

On the heels of our announcement Monday about the Xfinity TV online service, we're partnering with SHOWTIME to bring their top-rated shows and hit movies to millions of customers online. Now Comcast customers are the first to be able to...

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26Oct
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Comcast at the Broadcasting & Cable Hispanic TV Summit

Recently I had the pleasure of participating in a panel at B&C/Multichannel News's eighth annual Hispanic Television Summit which took place in New York earlier this month. The Summit is the television industry's signature conference for executives involved in the...

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25Oct
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Now Online at Xfinity TV - Top-Rated TV Shows, Hit Movies, rDVR, Personalized Watchlists and 150,000 Video Options

What's on TV? People have been asking this question for decades. Years ago there was a simple answer - just surf between your channels and decide. But today, with tens of thousands of shows and movies available at your fingertips...

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22Oct
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Taylor Gives Comcast Customers a Sneak Peek of "Story Of Us"

For the past three weeks, our customers had access to three world's first listens, and three exclusive interviews with Taylor talking about her new songs: Speak Now, Back to December and Mean. With Taylor's new album, Speak Now, debuting on...

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21Oct
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Comcast Invests In Initiative For Social Web Entrepreneurs With Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Facebook, Amazon, Zynga, Liberty Media, and Allen & Co.

Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC), Comcast's venture fund, was part of an exciting announcement today at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, where the sFund was introduced. We are delighted to join Facebook, Amazon, Zynga, Liberty Media, and Allen & Co. as...

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21Oct
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Comcast Mobile App Gets New Features with 2.5 Release for iPhone & iPod Touch Users

In our last blog post about the Comcast Mobile app, we told you about how you can remotely program your DVR from your iPhone or iPod touch. In our latest release, version 2.5, we are introducing some new features that...

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20Oct
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United Way Employee Campaign

When the leaves begin to turn and the air gets a little chilly, we at Comcast always anticipate our annual United Way employee campaign. It has become a wonderful Fall tradition. This year's campaign is in full swing and runs...

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18Oct
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DNS Security Rollout Begins

We're pleased to announce that beginning today we will start the process of migrating customers to DNS servers that use Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), as part of an evolving suite of security protections that are part of Comcast...

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18Oct
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Taylor Swift Talks "Mean"

Taylor fans, get ready, because we have another world's first listen to Taylor Swift's new album, Speak Now. Starting today, we are bringing customers the world's first listen to the title track, Mean, as well as an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview...

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14Oct
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A True Pink Ribbon Pioneer

Earlier this month, in partnership with the nonprofit Breastcancer.org, we launched our fourth annual Pink Ribbon campaign. Our Pink Ribbon initiative is designed to raise awareness about breast cancer and better educate women, their families and friends about the disease...

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13Oct
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Xfinity WiFi - How To Log In and How to Find Locations

Having officially launched Xfinity WiFi earlier this week, there were two questions that we wanted to answer right away. How do you log in and where are the hot spots located? You can either watch a video (see below) of...

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13Oct
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Integrating DNSSEC Into Applications

In February 2010, we announced the start of a production network trial of DNS Security, or DNSSEC, technology. Since that time our trials have gone well, and we've been learning a lot to prepare us for deploying DNSSEC to all...

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12Oct
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Xfinity WiFi Has Arrived

Xfinity Internet has always been about service in the home and our customers have had to say goodbye to our services when they walk out their front doors. But the world is changing and there has been an explosion of...

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11Oct
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An Exclusive Q&A With Major League Baseball All-Star Evan Longoria

Evan Longoria is an emerging superstar in baseball, as he's leading the Tampa Bay Rays through the 2010 postseason. Last night, his two-run home run lifted the Rays to a 5-2 victory over the Texas Rangers in Game 4...

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11Oct
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Taylor Swift: Back To December

Last week on XfinityTV On Demand and xfinityTV.com, we brought customers the world's first listen to Taylor Swift's new song Speak Now. This week customers are getting a new exclusive world-premiere 30 second, first listen of Back to December from...

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08Oct
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One Economy: Technology cuts across all barriers

Nostalgia mixed with a sense of new beginning. That's the best way I can describe last night's 10th Annual One Economy Gala at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Chairman of the Board and co-founder Rey Ramsey spoke with passion...

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08Oct
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Comcast Sponsors City Year's Opening Day

It's hard to imagine anyone not getting motivated by City Year's opening day. The ceremonies last Friday and early this week resembled a pep rally, as more than 1,700 corps members around the country officially kicked off their year of...

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06Oct
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Fourth Annual Pink Ribbon Campaign

As a Senior Producer at Comcast, I help produce and gather a suite of original, video-on-demand (VOD) programming. One of the program initiatives that I am most proud to manage is the annual breast cancer Pink Ribbon Campaign. The campaign...

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05Oct
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A New Internet Engineering Forum is Almost Here

Over the last few months, I and some Comcast colleagues have been part of a diverse group of representatives from technology companies, advocacy groups, and academia who share the common goal of ensuring that Internet policies and practices keep pace...

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04Oct
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Ideas Forum: A Summit on American Innovation

The Atlantic magazine teamed with the Aspen Institute and the Newseum to stage the second annual Washington Ideas Festival last Thursday and Friday. It featured a series of over a dozen one-on-one interviews with leading figures in politics, business, economics,...

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04Oct
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Catch Taylor Swift Like You've Never Seen Her Before

Taylor Swift's upcoming album, Speak Now, doesn't debut until October 25, but we are giving our customers a world premiere 30 second first listen to four new songs and an interview from Taylor's new album Speak Now over the next...

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01Oct
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UPDATE - Security Scene Part II: Constant Guard Rolls Out Nationally

Yesterday, we announced we were taking our Constant Guard Bot Detection and Notification service nationally. As the nation's largest ISP, we have a responsibility to protect our customers from online threats, and this is yet another step we've taken in...

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01Oct
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October Marks National Cyber Security Awareness Month

October is the 7th Annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month. And while cyber security and online safety require vigilance all year long, in October, we ask everyone to take some time to educate themselves and do what they can to...

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01Oct
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Comcast Donates Additional IPv6 Open Source Software

Comcast has now released additional free open source software that may help facilitate the industry's and end users' transition to IPv6. We are releasing home gateway device (a.k.a. home router) software, which is available here as open source, developed in...

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