Neowin News Feed for: Techtv

Comcast completes acquisition of TechTV

Fri, 14 May 2004 03:18:22 +0000

Thanks xStainDx. Comcast Corporation today announced that it has completed the purchase of TechTV from Vulcan Programming, Inc. and, as planned, will merge it with G4, the Comcast-owned television network devoted to video games and... Read more...

Comcast Lays off the TechTV Staff

Fri, 07 May 2004 09:25:14 +0000

TechTV told 285 San Francisco employees on Thursday that their jobs are being eliminated, a move that was widely feared by workers after Comcast announced in March that it would acquire the technology cable channel.... Read more...

Leo Laporte left TechTV

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:20:34 +0000

Thanks |CiN|FuL for posting about this in the BPN section. Leo Laporte has officially left TechTV after spending 10 years working for the company. "It's true, after 10 years TechTV and I... Read more...

Comcast to acquire TechTV

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:37:07 +0000

Comcast on Thursday said it agreed to acquire cable channel TechTV, owned by Paul Allen's Vulcan, and merge it with its own G4 video game network. The acquisition will enable Comcast, the... Read more...

TechTV switches from geeks to consumers

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:14:58 +0000

Signaling a major shift in focus, cable channel TechTV said Tuesday that it has cancelled roundtable discussion show "Silicon Spin" and halted production of digital music program "AudioFile." With the programming shake-up,... Read more...

TechTV Review: Raytown Anti-keylogger 1.12

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 05:13:24 +0000

I found this interesting article over on TechTV's site and thought I'd post... One particularly scary type of spyware, key-logging software, records a computer user's keystrokes for the purpose of monitoring computer activity.... Read more...