Comcast has a brand new feature for its Internet subscribers called Xfinity Wi-Fi, but it’s going about it the wrong way, likely making even more enemies in the process. SeattlePi reports that Comcast is turning some of the Wi-Fi routers placed in the homes of subscribers into a “massive public Wi-Fi hotspot network,” but it’s […]
There are a number of fears that come to most pay TV and Internet subscribers’ minds when they think about the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger that was announced last week. Will my bill go up? Will real competition in the industry become even more rare? Will the resulting mega-ISP be ruthless and evil? Also […]
Yesterday, I wrote up my take on the recent Australian bomb-hoax story, in which a suspect was tracked from Sydney to Kentucky through a mixture of old-fashioned detective legwork and cyberinvestigation. I suggested that making this sort of investigation as easy as it seems on crass TV cop shows would be a bad idea: There […]
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