Xfinity Streampix's thus-far-meager offerings are available only to subscribers of Comcast's pay-TV services.
FORTUNE -- Put "Comcast" and "streaming" together in a press release and predictably, reports will proliferate that the cable giant is taking on Netflix. It isn't.
Not yet, anyway. Comcast's (CMCSA) new streaming service, Xfinity Streampix, will be available to existing video customers only, though it's possible -- even likely -- that the company is laying the groundwork for MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Feb 22, 2012 6:30 AM ET
Netflix is making the signup process a bit easier for customers who want to rent only DVDs. That doesn't mean the company has suddenly re-embraced the DVD business.
FORTUNE -- Netflix (NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings really can't catch a break. And it's only partly his fault. Ever since that whole aborted DVD-spinoff fiasco (Qwikster), which followed that whole new-pricing-plan fiasco, every one of his utterances has been examined by the media MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Feb 17, 2012 3:33 PM ET
AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Verizon must allow shareholders -- like the Beastie Boys' Mike D -- to vote on whether the companies should continue to impose data caps on their customer.
FORTUNE -- The SEC on Wednesday ordered that Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), and Sprint Nextel (S) must allow shareholder votes on Net neutrality.
The companies have displayed transparent hypocrisy in arguing against the votes. Net neutrality, they said, MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Feb 16, 2012 3:17 PM ET
The deal to acquire Motorola will give Google the ammo it needs to battle patent lawsuits from competitors like Apple.
FORTUNE -- The Justice Department on Monday gave Google (GOOG) the go-ahead to complete its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI). Judging by the stern warnings the DOJ issued, and its criticisms of Google's promises to not misuse any of the the 17,000 patents it is acquiring in the MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Feb 14, 2012 2:24 PM ETCharges by the GOP candidate that the search giant is discriminating against him should be taken with a heavy dose of salt.
FORTUNE -- First, a clarification is in order. The fact that searching for "santorum" puts the profane, anti-Rick Santorum site SpreadingSantorum at the top of Google's search results is not an example of a "Google bomb," despite the widespread use of that term to describe the result.
Why does it MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Feb 10, 2012 11:14 AM ET
A blogger cites unnamed sources in claiming that Amazon is close to opening a pilot store in Seattle within months.
FORTUNE -- Is it possible that Amazon's stock sank today partly -- or even mostly -- because of an unconfirmed report on a blog devoted to e-readers that the company plans to open a pilot retail store in Seattle?
It is, in fact, possible, though of course we can't know for sure. MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Feb 6, 2012 4:56 PM ETHe tried. But the CEO's tenure was marked by regular public embarrassments that look all the worse in retrospect.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- Will the departure of CEO Howard Stringer, whose stumbles have come to epitomize the struggles of the once-great Sony Corp., turn things around for the media-and-electronics conglomerate?
It's impossible to know, of course. Stringer's replacement, Kazuo Hirai, has a good reputation. (Stringer will remain as chairman.) What can MORE
Feb 2, 2012 3:54 PM ET
Was this a victory for the little guy? The fight shows that the Internet and tech industries have finally come into their own in Washington.
FORTUNE -- The recent defeats of SOPA and PIPA, two bills designed to clamp down on Internet piracy, have been widely hailed as a victory for popular, bottom-up democracy. To some degree this was true, but it's important not to overlook the effect of bareknuckled political MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jan 31, 2012 11:21 AM ET
The brouhaha over the American internet piracy bill has died down, giving way to proposed international legislation with many similar elements.
By Dan Mitchell, contributor
FORTUNE -- It's only fitting that a loud, global outcry over ACTA, an international agreement to govern intellectual property, began just after the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA were shelved by the U.S Congress in the face of massive public pressure. If "copyright maximalists" can't get legislation MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jan 26, 2012 11:38 AM ETEvgeny Morozov thinks search engines should "flag" sites that promote nutty conspiracy theories. It's a nutty idea.
FORTUNE -- There is a lot of garbage and nonsense on the Internet. There will always be a lot of garbage and nonsense on the Internet. And, thanks to our understandable wish to clean up garbage when we see it, there will always be misguided calls to do something about it.
Not that nothing can MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
| Citigroup Inc | 32.36 | -1.00 | -3.00% |
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| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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