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Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates. Weeks likely still remain before any more actionable steps would be taken in Comcast’s very tenuous, highly publicized possible 51 percent purchase of NBC Universal, according […]


Every Thursday morning, find all the stories you need to know about your friendly telecommunications giant in the Comcast Roundup. Get an e-mail subscription for our Comcast news updates.
Weeks likely still remain before any more actionable steps would be taken in Comcast’s very tenuous, highly publicized possible 51 percent purchase of NBC Universal, according to the Wrap. But, Sharon Waxman reports on the site, there is a deal in principle.
But, folks there’s plenty standing in the way:

Even in the still very uncertain reality that this high-profile purchase were to occur, a simple majority stake by Comcast would hardly offer even the hint that NBC’s decidedly 67th ward-branded programming would take on any Philadelphia tone.
But, it could, of course, be noted that in recent years NBC has shifted the locations of its Web divisions and some MSNBC functions from Manhattan to New Jersey. While other realities were at play, the dramatic difference in real estate cost between the two surely wasn’t ignored. Philadelphia could prove an even cheaper, yet higher-profile home than the Garden State, with all the other benefits of a major city in between the government and financial capitals of the country, for any such low-profile administrative or other departments.
After the jump, more Comcast-NBC fantasizing, a large Internet security rollout and, yeesh, at least 10 other Comcast stories of note.

MIGHT BE WORTH YOUR TIME

It’s still very much a fantasy, but there’s no reason to ignore the very real benefits that Philadelphia offers both Comcast and perhaps NBC.

Comcast news this week certainly went far beyond its potential move for NBC.

  • The company’s corporate blog announced Constant Guard, but the team dedicated to proactively reaching out to customers affected by spammers, viruses and bots that has been much trumpeted by the company’s public relations unit has been largely drowned out by the noise of NBC. CNET reports on last week’s launch, and the team’s focus on tracking trends like a sudden, heavy surge in traffic from a particular IP adresss. The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the initiative includes free security software that customers can download from Comcast, and Gigaom gives its approval.Also as part of the service, Comcast is begining in the Denver, Colo. market sending service notices to customers who may have been affected by these Web dangers. “We think we�re one of the first (and perhaps the only) ISPs in the U.S. to implement these types of measures,” said Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas in an e-mail to Technically Philly.

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