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The cable TV provider's Xfinity Streampix is designed to give Web access to its films and TV shows, following HBO Go's lead in competing with Netflix.
Comcast announced a new subscription video-on-demand service today that will provide "out of home" access via the Web.
Comcast has named the new service Xfinity Streampix. The cable company's strategy to compete against Netflix, the Web's No. 1 video rental service, has obviously been influenced by HBO.
Streampix is designed to enhance Comcast's existing service, Xfinity, by offering users a broader selection of movies and TV shows. Variety, the Hollywood trade magazine, first reported the story.
HBO Go, the Internet service that enables HBO subscribers to access every episode of the company's past and present shows online, has become a model for cable companies trying to compete online.
Streampix "enables Xfinity video customers to instantly view favorite movies and TV shows in and out of the home," Comcast said in a statement. The TV shows offered include "numerous past seasons of current hit shows and full series."
This is a smart move, as it hits Netflix where it is weakest now: its video-streaming selection. Exclusive licensing deals have locked Netflix out of acquiring the latest movies from five of the six top Hollywood film studios. While Netflix managers have seen rapid growth (gaining more than 24 million subscribers), they have struggled of late to keep the streaming library fresh.
With Netflix customers grumbling about the lack of new titles, Comcast can tell customers, "Hey, the other guy might help you save some money, but is there anything there you want to see?"
Conversely, Comcast's offer isn't without its shortcomings.
A Comcast subscriber must either be a member of one of the company's triple-play packages (high-speed Web, video, phone, etc.), or pay an additional $5 a month for Streampix.
That extra $5 may be the service's Achilles' heel. When it comes to price, Netflix's basic streaming service is far less expensive than any of the U.S. cable offerings.
Comcast said Streampix will be available on multiple Web-connected devices, including smart TVs.
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ISP Dodo played a role in causing the outage that affected millions of fixed-line and mobile internet connections across the country this afternoon, Dodo's chief has confirmed.
"To be perfectly frank the extent of what happened was more than anybody could've thought," Dodo managing director Larry Kestelman told this website in an interview, adding his team was still investigating exactly what caused the issue.
"What it looks like has happened ... is a very minor hardware failure on one of the routers that has caused some big issues between ourselves and Telstra and had a flow on effect to others which it absolutely shouldn't have," he said.
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"Telstra is saying that there were some overseas routing issues as well - but to me it sounds like it was a combination of things that caused it."
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Speculation the outage was caused by Dodo first appeared on the Australian Network Operators Group electronic mailing list - a list many Australian network administrators subscribe to - and spread to broadband forum Whirlpool shortly after.
"Rayle", a user of the Whirlpool broadband forum, quipped that Dodo's marketing slogan "Dodo, Dodo, internet that flies!" should instead be "Dodo, Dodo, internet that dies!"
The outage began about 1.40pm AEDT, lasted about 45 minutes, and affected customers nationwide after Telstra lost connectivity to its international data network, a Telstra spokeswoman said in an email. "Customers who couldn't access international sites were then overloading domestic sites causing major issues in accessing Australian sites as well."
"Some customers may currently be experiencing intermittent issues and slow speeds when accessing the internet. This is due to a large increase of users and traffic on the internet at the moment following the national outage we experienced this afternoon.
"We are working with the wholesale customer in relation to the outage to find out what occurred in our respective networks to prevent it happening again."
Customers of ISP iiNet were also affected by the outage, the Peth-based ISP said on its website. But the ISP's chief regulatory officer, Steve Dalby, said the ISP was able to "route around" the issue.
The CommBank website and NetBank were also affected by the outage but were now back online, a Commonwealth Bank spokesman said. A number of other Australian organisations that rely on the internet to do business were also affected.
Internet users said on Whirlpool that their connections were out in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Townsville, Tasmania, Canberra, the Gold Coast and Perth.
"Work internet is down, and I work for a telco... Ummm hmmm...," tweeted @skkng from Sydney.
"Okay, who broke the internet? @iiNet and @Telstra both down. My trusty @Optus prepaid mobile broadband to the rescue!" tweeted another, @KimSkildumReid, also in Sydney.
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LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire -02/22/12)- Atlantis Internet Group Corp. (Pinksheets: ATIG.PK - News), a Nevada-based gaming innovator, made history today with its announced launch of the first form of legal Intranet gaming within the United States. The historic launch is commemorated by the signing of agreements officially connecting the first two Native American Tribal Casinos in the company's Tribal Gaming Network. The first two charter member casinos to sign were Coushatta Indian Casino in Louisiana and Coyote Valley Casino in California. Tribes nationwide are realizing this is an advantage to be first to capture the online gaming market in the U.S. which creates new gaming revenues and exciting online entertainment.
ATIG's Tribal Gaming Network was established in 2009 when the company was granted an opinion by the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) to operate its Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Indian Casinos nationwide. In addition, ATIG has brought together some of the world's most prominent gaming vendors to offer Class III, Class II and online games on its proprietary Private Gaming Network to link together Indian Casinos from 28 States. This first of its kind multi-game platform offers products from major gaming vendors on one machine including Table Games, Slots, Simulated Horse Racing, Nationwide Poker, Simulated Sportsbook, Live Online Dealer Games, and featuring only the second Powerball-like Lotto product.
Since April of last year when most big name online poker companies were shut down by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), ATIG's Tribal Gaming Network Poker remained as the only legal nationwide online poker for live cash allowed on Indian lands in the U.S. Since that time the DOJ has softened its position stating that the Wire Act only applies to Sportsbook, leading many to speculate that major U.S. Internet gaming legislation may be coming. In the past the U.S. was considered to represent approximately 60% of the worldwide Internet gaming market.
Commercial casino companies as well as Native American Tribal Casinos have begun to focus on this marketplace by offering "play-for-fun" sites. ATIG President and CEO Donald L. Bailey said, "We have a huge leg up on the competition, having mastered play-for-fun marketing sites since 2003. Now, based on the NIGC opinion, to date ATIG is the only gaming company that can legally offer online linking games other than bingo, nationwide for live cash, such as poker and progressive jackpots. This is a new technology that has never been offered in the gaming Industry before today. ATIG's gaming platform works within the casinos on Slots, Kiosks, on Android mobile phones and Samsung Tablets and some of our games play on iPhones. It's the next generation of server-based technology; in short, it's a casino within a casino."
About Atlantis Internet Group Corp.
Atlantis Internet Group Corp. is a public Nevada Gaming corporation specializing in the development of casino games, casino management software, slot machine software, gaming networks and land-based casino development. For more information: http://www.atlantisinternetgroup.com
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Any statements made in this press release which are not historical facts contain certain forward-looking statements; as such term is defined in the Private Security Litigation Reform Act of 1995, concerning potential developments affecting the business, prospects, financial condition and other aspects of the company to which this release pertains. The actual results of the specific items described in this release, and the company's operations generally, may differ materially from what is projected in such forward-looking statements. Although such statements are based upon the best judgments of management of the company as of the date of this release, significant deviations in magnitude, timing and other factors may result from business risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, the company's dependence on third parties, general market and economic conditions, technical factors, the availability of outside capital, receipt of revenues and other factors, many of which are beyond the control of the company. The company disclaims any obligation to update information contained in any forward-looking statement. This press release shall not be deemed a general solicitation.
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