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Looking to help smaller cable operators compete against over-the-top entertainment services, Comcast Media Center inked an agreement with In Demand Networks to distribute "thousands" of video-on-demand titles licensed by In Demand via the HITS On Demand Content Distribution Network.

Fuse and Comcast's Xfinity TV have launched a special on-demand program in the Baltimore area featuring local rockers O.A.R. This edition of My City.

After a six-month search CableLabs' board of directors has hired Phil McKinney, a self-styled technology innovation guru whose past gigs have included chief technology officer in Hewlett-Packard's personal systems group, as the R&D consortium's next president and CEO.

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Comcast Corporation , one of the nation's leading providers of information and communications products and services, today announced Comcast Business VoiceEdge , a cloud-based voice and unified communications solution.

Comcast Corp. is preparing to launch the X1 platform, its next-generation video service, in a handful of additional markets following its initial launch in Boston, Light Reading Cable has learned.

The White House announced a new, multistakeholder, industry-wide, coordinated, interagency, nationally focused and global plan to combat botnets, which have financial, personal privacy, and security impact, the White House said on Wednesday.

At a shareholders meeting on Thursday, Checkpoint Systems Corp. investors will gather less than a month after Rob van der Merwe retired as chairman, president, and CEO of the maker of antitheft systems for retailers.

Comcast, a provider of entertainment, information, and communications products and services, announced it is developing an advanced user interface across TVs, laptops, tablets and smartphones that combines timely information with customers' Xfinity TV, Voice, Internet and Home services, to help manage their life and home.

Apple and Foxconn are getting serious about cleaning up their employer status in China.

But as similar services continue to grow online, the FCC is questioning whether it should also apply to the likes of Hulu, Netflix, and in the future, Apple.

The FCC has named the members of its Open Internet Advisory Committee , which is charged with monitoring the effects of the FCC's Open Internet order, and it includes an executive from top cable operator Comcast.

April 19: Verizon Communications Inc. added 193,000 FiOS Internet customers in the first three months of the year to end the quarter with 5 million.

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Developing leadership principles, real world learning opportunities, digital technology skills, community service, financial literacy, and civic journalism are all key components of the Comcast Digital Connectors program.

Comcast Corp. 's latest Xfinity TV app release for Android now lets authenticated customers stream on-demand content from the operator's TV Everywhere library, joining a lineup that already includes iOS devices, PCs and the Xbox 360.

It's an argument we've all made, but it apparently still needs to be made: Market pressure is better than government at protecting people's ability to get what they want .

The Federal Communications Commission ruled in Bloomberg TV's favor in a dispute with Comcast, saying the cable provider must provide the business news network with more desirable channel positions.

The latest report of a Facebook phone comes from Nick Bilton of the New York Times, who said he spoke to employees of Facebook, engineers who were sought out by Facebook recruiters, as well as some other people, who had been briefed on Facebook's plans to release a smart phone by next year.

Boston - Ciao, Old Cable: The days of services being anchored to specific pieces of operator-supplied hardware are fast receding.

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