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Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program Recognizes Maryland Students for their Academic Achievement and Community Service ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, is awarding 100 Maryland high school seniors scholarships through its annual Leaders and Achievers(®) Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's...
TO BE PRESENTED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 AT THE HILTON NEW YORK NEW YORK, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eleven executives representing Condista, Comcast, Dish, Fox Broadcasting, Fox Hispanic Media, Sesame Workshop, SMG/Tapestry, Telemundo, TV One, Univision and Verizon within the fields of advertising, programming, marketing, digital and pay television have been named as the members of the first-ever class of winners of the Multiethnic TV Leadership Awards to be presented by...
FISHERS, Ind., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast, the nation's largest Internet service provider, announced it is increasing the speeds of two of its most popular XFINITY(TM) Internet speed plans, Blast! and Extreme 50, in Indiana starting today for no additional cost. Customers will enjoy more than twice as fast Internet speeds on multiple devices, allowing them to surf, chat, stream HD movies and TV shows, or game online with double the speed. Also for no additional cost,...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast, the nation's largest Internet service provider, announced it is increasing the speeds of two of its most popular XFINITY(TM) Internet speed plans, Blast! and Extreme 50, in Arkansas starting today for no additional cost. Customers will enjoy more than twice as fast Internet speeds on multiple devices, allowing them to surf, chat, stream HD movies and TV shows, or game online with double the speed. Also for no additional cost,...
Nearly 3,400 Families and more than 6,700 individuals in Oregon and SW Washington are now online PORTLAND, Ore., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Executive Vice President David L. Cohen today announced details about the 2(nd) Annual Internet Essentials Progress Report, which features key milestones for the program as well as a number of program enhancements and a new award designed to honor top-performing school districts. Internet Essentials is the nation's largest, most...
DC Fawcett says that ISP’s shouldn’t punish business owners who offer free WI-FI for customers shouldn’t be punished if their customers download unauthorized content from the web. Brandon, FL (PRWEB) March 01, 2013 Fawcett is furious that the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America have teamed up with five major U.S. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement a new Copyright Alert System that can hurt small business owners who...
- thePlatform's mpx Video Management System to Provide Centralized Publishing for TMN GO in Canada - SEATTLE, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --thePlatform, the leading white-label video publishing company, today announced that it has been selected to provide the back-end video management for Astral Television Networks' newly launched The Movie Network (TMN) GO, HBO GO(®) Canada and TMN Encore GO streaming service in Eastern Canada. TMN GO will use thePlatform's "TV Everywhere" (TVE)...
Ethernet Network Service, High-Speed Internet and Voice Trunks Support 17 Municipal Sites to Improve Communication and Provide Efficient Delivery of Public Services WEST HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company, today announced that it is providing Business Class Ethernet and Business Class Trunks to the City of West Haven, Connecticut. As part of this agreement, Comcast is providing a complete network solution featuring...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A number of Internet service providers will begin rolling out a long-delayed “Copyright Alert System,” (CAS) or so-called “six strikes” program, over the next several days that allows content owners to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal file transfers. If illicit activity is detected, content owners would be able to notify the offending users' Internet service provider, who would alert the primary account owner and...
LONDON, February 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Investing in well diversified companies brings about instant benefits like diffusion of risk. These stocks are better insulated against sector -related upheavals. Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE:HON) provides good capital growth and robust dividend income. The company also has a solid track record and has good balance sheet. General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) sold its NBC Universal stake to Comcast. The company also recently...
