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Federal regulators are pledging rigorous reviews of Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of NBC Universal to ensure that it would ...
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2010/03/11/comcast-dropped-from-citi-top-picks-list-on-valuation-basis/?mod=rss_BOLBlog
Tech Trader Daily —
Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet this morning dropped Comcast (CMCSA) from the firm’s Top Picks Live list, noting that the cable company’s shares at yesterday’s $17.50 close are nearing his $19 price target. The stock had been added to the list in mid-February with CMCSA at $15.33. ~ He maintains his Buy
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rating, though, asserting that the NBCU deal is financially attractive, and forecasting free cash flow growth, increasing share repurchases and healthy EPS growth. ~ CMCSA is down 13 cents, or 0.7%, to $17.40. ...Less
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Researchers-Aim-To-Reduce-Copyright-Infringement-False-Positives-107309
DSLreports - front page —
Slashdot directs our attention to the fact that Cox, Time Warner Cable and Comcast have created a joint venture called PolyCipher . PolyCipher in turn is funding research into a project called BitStalker, which according to the project explanation (pdf) will help copyright holders more effectively identify BitTorrent users
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trading copyrighted files. The goal is to reduce the number of false positives that pop up (about 11% currently) during efforts to identify pirates on P2P networks. Says the study: ~ We develop an active probing framework called BitStalker that identifies active peers and collects concrete forensic evidence that they were involved in sharing a particular file. We evaluate the effectiveness of this approach through a measurement study with real, large torrents consisting of over 186,000 peers. We find that the current investigative methods produce at least 11% false positives, while we show that false positives are rare with our active approach. According to the researchers, the system could potentially monitor up to 20,000 different peers over a period of five minutes using somewhere between 14.4 and 50.8KB/s of bandwidth. It could also work cheaply -- the researchers claim they could monitor the entire userbase of The Pirate Bay for just $12.40 a month. A little more on how they can reduce false positives: A successful TCP probe indicates that the peer is listening on the correct port. However, an effective counter-strategy could be to register arbitrary IP addresses with ports that are opened (such as web servers). The subsequent handshake probe is more conclusive, as it indicates that the BitTorrent protocol is running on the correct port and also identifies the content being shared by a SHA1 hash. The bitfield probe provides stronger evidence still, since it describes all pieces that the peer has downloaded, which implies active sharing. Finally, requesting and subsequently receiving a block of the file provides the strongest form of concret... ...Less
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One of the year’s most critically acclaimed films comes to DVD, Blu-ray Disc and as a digital download from Lionsgate. Starring the 2010 winner for Best Supporting Actress Oscar Mo’Nique and Best Actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe in her film debut. Available on DVD and Blu-ray now! Precious is a vibrant, honest
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Hollywood Reporter —
Cable giant Comcast Corp. continues to focus on running its core business despite the planned acquisition of NBC Universal, CFO Michael Angelakis said Tuesday. "We are not losing the forest for the trees," he said at a Credit Suisse investor conference in a session that was webcast. He emphasized though that "we
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are very excited about NBCU" and that the company is "working on our planning" for the integration process now. While other media mergers have often failed, "we will focus on execution," Angelakis told the conference. The deal is structured to be attractive even without synergies, "we think we'll hit a lot of singles and a lot of doubles," he added. The Comcast CFO also predicted that the cable giant's programming costs will be "a bit lower" this year. ...Less
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/comcast-is-absent-from-campaign-to-change-retransmission-rules/
Media Decoder —
Comcast doesn't sign a petition asking the government to change station retransmission rules.
