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• NBC-Universal-Comcast Merger: What We Do and Don't Know Thursday's deal has the potential to reshape the American entertainment landscape in a way that AOL Time Warner merger never could.
• iPhone Sync Problems? Try This Sometimes the weirdest, most unlikely solution can solve the most vexing issue. Like, say, plugging a sync cable into a different USB port.
• Sneaky Fees Two bucks to get a paper statement? $15 to book airline tickets online? Wireless providers, cable companies, and other firms are increasingly nickel-and-diming us to death. Here’s how to fight back.
• Gaping Security Hole Turns Cable Modems Into Hacker Prey A blogger helping to tune a friend's wi-fi network uncovered a gaping security hole in Wi-Fi cable modem routers installed in 64,000 Time Warner subscribers' homes.
• Verizon's Quad-Play Bundle Verizon pushes the familiar "triple-play-bundle-for-TV" concept to the next level, adding wireless calling to its triple-play plans.
• Kiss Your Pricey Cable Company Goodbye Analysis: Say hello to high-tech alternatives from TiVo and Roku that avoid the frustration — and high cost — of moving to digital.
• How to Connect Your New HDTV Properly The right connections can make all the difference to your picture, but that doesn't mean you have to break the bank for really expensive cables.
• How to Get the Best Video Signal for Your HDTV Even the best TV can look lousy if it's not getting a great HD signal. These tips will help you make sure that you're getting the best possible picture, whatever your signal source or service.
• How to Install Your HDTV If you were planning to mount your new set over the fireplace, stop right now. Our tips will make sure you get the best possible view of your new set.
• How to Win a Better Deal From Your Service Provider You can go to bat against a service provider and win, but you've got to be ready to go to the brink, as this real chat session demonstrates.
• Comcast's 'TV Everywhere' Gets CBS, AMC, and Others Comcast's trial to bring cable video channel content to its customers expands to include CBS, HBO, Cinemax, TBS, TNT, and Starz.
• 10 Companies We Love to Hate When it comes to the Hall of Fame of companies to hate, these tech firms top the list.
• How the Unknown Digital TV Transition Could Screw You As cable companies move toward their own digital transition, your tricked-out home theater setup could lose favorite TV channels and functionality.
• Cablevision to Launch Controversial Remote DVR This Summer Cablevision is set to roll-out a DVR service that stores video remotely with the cable company. Time to say goodbye to your Tivo?
• Confessions of an ISP Customer Service Rep In response to our recently published feature, "10 Things We Hate About ISPs and Cable and Phone Companies," an anonymous former customer service rep gives us some perspective from the inside.
• 10 Things We Hate About ISPs and Cable and Phone Companies From their automated phone-support systems to their missed service appointments to their penchant for nickel-and-diming us to death, service providers seem have an inexhaustible supply of habits that get our blood pressure up.
• Comcast Cable TV is Coming to Laptops This Year Comcast's Fancast.com will host paid cable content free of charge for existing Comcast subscribers, beginning later this year, Comcast Exec says.
• Cable and the Costlier Future It's quite likely that the cable operator in your town brings you more than television programming.
• Comcast OnDemand Goes Online Competing streaming sites push Comcast to also let subscribers retrieve shows from the Web.
• Al Jazeera Lobbies Online for U.S. Cable Access Al Jazeera English has launched a Web-based grassroots campaign to coax American cable companies to air its shows.
• Find Out If Your ISP Is Throttling Your Internet Service Are you really going to trust that your ISP isn't throttling your Net connection? These tools will let you find out for yourself.
• Comcast Customers Get $10 to Make Up for Porn Is a $10 credit enough to make up for the 30 seconds of pornography that infiltrated the Super Bowl?
• How the Super Bowl Got an X Rating Forget Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction moment -- this year the playoff game itself had an X-rated moment.
• FCC Questions Comcast's Treatment of Competing VoIP Two high-level FCC staffers question Comcast's treatment of competing VoIP services on its network.
• FBI Says Copper Thefts Threaten U.S. Infrastructure The FBI warns that thefts of copper wire pose a threat to the U.S. infrastructure.