Yesterday word started getting around that come October 1st Comcast would be enforcing a 250GB bandwidth cap for all their users.

When NBC Universal and News Corp announced that they were teaming up back in March, most people assumed that they were doing so to take on YouTube by launching a video sharing site. As it turns out, they had no intention of competing with YouTube and instead had their eyes set on creating a place where people would be able to view video content online.

Comcast is quickly gaining enemies from the BitTorrent crowd by using new technology to throttle torrent downloads.  The Associated Press was able to confirm that they are in fact doing this through tests all over the nation.  In their report they say that this move is "the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S.

On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts introduced the cable modem of the future.  The new modem will boast download speeds of 150 megabits per second!  To put this into perspective, we’ll compare it with today’s speeds using our recent poll.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that MetaMan sent us a tip saying that Comcast customers in the US were receiving warnings that they needed to cut back on their excessive bandwidth use, otherwise they would face termination (sounds like the Verizon ordeal, doesn’t it?). Some customers have already gotten cut off which is frustrating to say the least.

"The Future of TV is not on TV. It's the Internet." You've heard that a few times recently, haven't you? That's what movie-maker/ producer R.J. Cutler has to say about his reasoning for producing "Facebook Diaries," an online movie which will be composed of "compelling and engaging and dramatic, and powerful and worth of telling" stories of 18-24 year olds on Facebook.