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Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program Recognizes Virginia Students for their Academic Achievement and Community Service RICHMOND, Va., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, is awarding 57 Virginia high school seniors scholarships through its annual Leaders and Achievers(®) Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's signature...

Companies work to streamline advertising policies and inventory placement rules between programmers and Canoe-enabled pay-TV operators NEW YORK, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --­ BlackArrow, a worldwide provider of advanced advertising solutions for New TV platforms, and Canoe, a provider of advertising software and services to national television programming networks, today announced that Canoe has licensed BlackArrow Affiliate, a sophisticated toolset that enables programmers to...

Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program Recognizes New Jersey Students for their Academic Achievement and Community Service TRENTON, N.J., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, is awarding 73 New Jersey high school seniors scholarships through its annual Leaders and Achievers(®) Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's signature...

New 'PSA Central' offers multimedia campaign content for 50 national campaigns that receive a cumulative $1.5 billion in donated time and space annually NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ad Council launched today a new version of their digital distribution platform, PSA Central, making it the first single source destination for all Ad Council PSAs. The platform provides easy access to broadcast-quality television spots in multiple HD and SD formats, as well as ads created...

iTV Manager Service Provider Edition Honored for Exceptional Innovation New York, NY (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Ensequence announced today that iTV Manager Service Provider Edition has received a 2012 Cable Spotlight Product of the Year Award from Cable.TMCnet.com, a Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) sponsored cable technology website. Cable Spotlight is the leading website dedicated to cable technologies. Recipients of the 2012 Spotlight awards represent the most innovative cable...

Technology Industry Analyst Jeff Kagan offers congratulations to Verizon. He is available to speak with reporters, or may be quoted through this release. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Verizon revealed they have hit 50 percent of the market in Dallas with their FiOS TV and Internet service according to industry trade site Fierce Cable, May 14, 2013. Principal analyst Jeff Kagan offers congratulations to Verizon and offers comment. “Both Verizon and AT&T entered the television...

Additional customer support, resources available to Hurricane Sandy-impacted towns PLEASANTVILLE, N.J., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast is welcoming back New Jersey shore customers, many of whom were impacted by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012. The company, which upgraded 144 miles of infrastructure supporting the hardest hit Jersey Shore communities, is also announcing newly-renovated service centers with increased staffing and weekend hours; additional service technicians and...

Telarus looks to get a leg up in managed services and cloud computing through CompTIA training and certification programs. Sandy, UT (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 Telarus, distributor of commercial data, voice, and cloud solutions, today announced that it has become a member of CompTIA, a non-profit trade association focused on advancing the global interests of IT professionals and companies through education and certification. The move paves the way for Telarus to offer its 35 employees and 1,200...

Michael Maxstead, CEO of VPNReviewz, an internet security and privacy website, takes a closer look at the results of the annual privacy report published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and points out a few noteworthy facts. (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 Michael Maxstead, CEO of VPNReviewz, says that he stays as up-to-date as he can on internet privacy and freedom issues. Also according to him, there aren’t very many organizations that are as concerned about internet consumers rights, than...

Christine Bragan, Rich Jennings, Michelle Hord-White And Dhanusha Sivajee To Be Honored At The NAMIC Annual Awards Breakfast Set For June 12th As Part Of Cable Connection - Spring NEW YORK, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Christine Bragan, vice president, Marketing and Communications, AMC Networks, Rich Jennings, regional senior vice president, Mile High, Comcast Cable, Michelle Hord-White, vice president, Talent Development and Pipeline Programs, NBCUniversal, and Dhanusha Sivajee,...