With Google’s game streaming service unveiled Tuesday and Apple’s TV streaming service reveal expected Monday, Comcast is hopping on the bandwagon: The cable giant said it will announce the launch of a new service Thursday, according to a media advisory. Comcast declined to characterize the nature of the new service. It will be introduced by Matt Strauss, a …
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One way wireless carriers are working to stop the flood of unwanted robocalls is through authentication systems that verify caller IDs. One drawback so far has been that these systems work only on calls to and from the same provider. On Wednesday, AT&T and Comcast said they’ll offer call authentication between networks later this year. Customers will be able to …
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Verizon has laid off 7 percent of employees in its digital business as the phone company comes to grips with the hard realities of building a major media and advertising business to compete with Facebook and Google. A spokesman for the company confirmed Wednesday that the company laid off about 800 employees in its Verizon Media Group, formerly branded Oath. …
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Amid all the hype for 5G cellular tech at CES this year, the cable industry unveiled its own push for better internet speeds here too. They call it [raises eyebrows] “10G.” After all, if 5G is so great, can you imagine what 10G can do? 5G is the talk of Las Vegas as CES 2019 again. This year, however, 5G’s high-speed …
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Comcast Xfinity TV customers will be able to sync their accounts with Movies Anywhere, the company said Thursday. Movies Anywhere allows film buffs to watch movies in one spot, irrespective of where they were bought. CNET’s Iyaz Akhtar described the service as a “digital bridge” between online video vendors. So if a customer has bought a title through another Movies …
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Comcast is opening its gates to Amazon Prime Video, the cable giant’s latest integration with a tech rival that has some of the most directly competitive content yet. The two companies said Wednesday that Comcast would be rolling out Amazon Prime onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service used by nearly two-thirds of its residential cable-TV customers, over the …
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Comcast’s latest channel is one that’s never been on cable before: Tubi TV, one of the most popular free movie-streaming services. Comcast is incorporating Tubi into X1, the cable giant’s internet-inclusive platform. The partnership means Tubi’s library of movies and other programming will be available and searchable on Comcast X1 like a regular channel or show, the two companies said. Rollout …
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Comcast will pay $700,000 in refunds and cancel debts for more than 20,000 customers in Massachusetts as part of a settlement, following allegations that the company used misleading ads about long-term cable contracts, the state attorney general said Tuesday. The settlement revolves around allegations that Comcast didn’t disclose the monthly cost and terms of its long-term cable contracts. This …
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The broadband industry’s four main lobbying groups are joining forces to stop California’s state net neutrality law from taking effect. On Wednesday, mobile-industry lobbyist the CTIA; USTelecom, which lobbies for the telecommunications industry; and the two lobbying organizations for the cable industry, NCTA and the American Cable Association, jointly filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of California …
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The Netflix app hit Now TV on Wednesday, expanding the streaming devices’ library in a big way. Netflix will come on new Now TV devices as standard, and current users can download it from their device’s app store. Sky’s on-demand TV service also announced that its Smart Box with 4K & Voice Search will launch on Sept. 26, with 4K …
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