Communications, Engineering and Design

August 2005

Grande will concentrate on adding customers

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San Antonio Express-News

August 16, 2005 Tuesday

STATE&METRO Edition

By Sanford Nowlin, Express-News Business Writer

From Lexis Nexis

Grande Communications Inc. -- the San Marcos-based phone, Internet and cable provider -- on Monday said it plans to put less effort into expanding its fiber-optic network and more into marketing to customers in areas it already serves.

Icahn calls on Time Warner to dump cable systems

Copyright 2005 Gannett Co. Inc.

USA TODAY

August 16, 2005, Tuesday, CHASE EDITION

By David Lieberman

From Lexis Nexis

NEW YORK -- Carl Icahn, who became a billionaire by shaking up undervalued companies, went public Monday with plans to rock Time Warner.

Comcast shores up online security

Comcast Cable is offering a set of Internet security tools to all of its 7.7 million cable modem subs for no additional charge.

The MSO is giving free access to three McAfee products: VirusScan, Personal Firewall Plus, and Privacy Service, which features parental controls that filter out inappropriate content and monitors activity to help prevent identify theft. Comcast said the package is valued at nearly $115.

Cavalier goes with MPEG-4

Cavalier Telephone will use headend gear from Tut Systems Inc. to outfit its forthcoming IPTV deployment with MPEG-4 compression.

Cavalier said it will offer advanced compression using Tut's Astria content processor video headend and edge-processing equipment. Tut, which is handling integration and project management for the deployment, noted that the platform supports local ad insertion and forward error correction.

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