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Comcast is launching Internet Essentials, a new initiative offering discounted Internet access and home computers to families that meet low income requirements.

The program was mandated as a requirement of Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, earlier this year. In that way, it's very similar to AT&T's Naked DSL program, which AT&T...

FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker has been receiving a ton of criticism for taking a high level lobbying job at Comcast just months after approving its huge merger with NBC Universal.

The response has been almost universally to condemn Baker in a move that smacks of the corruption of regulatory capture and the revolving door between corporations and the government that regulates them.

Comcast denies it's blocking the site that is often used to pirate digital content The Pirate Bay.

It has been a long time coming but now subscribers in the US can sign-up for a 100-Mbps-broadband connection.

Comcast, the largest cable (and broadband) company today announced that it is launching Extreme 105, across its entire footprint, which covers 40 million homes.

As was widely expected, the FCC today approved the Comcast/NBC Universal merger with some conditions.

The Justice Department still has to give its okay too, but everyone expects that to happen shortly.

In working to ensure the FCC agrees to the merger of its cable networks with NBC Universal, Comcast is making a concession to make broadband access available to low-income households for $10 a month.

But will the proposal spawn a new group of cord cutters?

Comcast has since fixed the problem, but not before Twitter users began posting their own solutions.

I've said from the beginning that I really don't understand all of the complaints about the Comcast/NBCU merger.

It's the modern equivalent of AOL/Time Warner, which really only served to hasten people to move away from crappy old solutions.

So, when I see a report claiming that the end result will mean higher prices for consumers as NBC jacks up its rates, I'm still not convinced this is a bad thing.

Linux.com: "Comcast has started IPv6 trials. If Comcast is your ISP, you can get started using IPv6 on Linux right away, with just a few simple steps.

Ready to join the next-generation network? We'll show you how to get Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast IPv6 in no time."

Ah, Comcast. Apparently the company sent an email to a user telling him that they had boosted the speeds on his broadband connection (which Comcast is trying to rebrand "Xfinity"), only to email him again a couple days later to admit they didn't really mean that.