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Identity Thefts Targeted at Kids

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:38:00 +0000

Deliverance: The Ability to Survive

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:38:00 +0000

Raw Video: BASE Jumping Off the Himalayas

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Homeless man wows X Factor judges

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 30 May 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Facebook Browser is Imminent

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 25 May 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Modern Family's Sarah Hyland Reveals Kidney Transplant

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Obama Targets Diploma Mills That Market to Vets

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Fashion Fails of the Week: Kim Kardashian and More!

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:45:00 +0000

John Noble on 'Fringe's' Season Finale

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:43:00 +0000

'The Avengers' Applaud Brangelina's Engagement

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:39:00 +0000

Christina Aguilera's Weight Loss?

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Analysts Say Foxconn Workers Have Little Voice

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:05:00 +0000

Medieval books digitized, posted online

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Dancing On Ice star Chloe Madeley to dig the dirt on the show

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:29:00 +0000

Mystery Solved: Quakes Caused Wisconsin Booms

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:26:00 +0000

Kate Upton's Zoo York Ad Banned

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:37:00 +0000

Whitney Houston: Bobby Brown pays tribute

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:43:00 +0000

World's stars mourn Whitney Houston

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:50:00 +0000

Whitney Houston's Casket Arrives at Funeral

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:48:00 +0000

Whitney Houston's funeral ends to I Will Always Love You

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:13:00 +0000

Apollo 15 Geology Station 1 at Elbow Crater

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:27:00 +0000

Apollo 17 "I was strolling on the Moon one day"

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Elton John Bashes Madonna

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Cablevision profit rises on Web subcribers

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:08:00 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cablevision Systems Corp posted a higher quarterly profit on Thursday as it added more Internet and telephone customers.

But the New York-based cable operator also lost more video customers than expected and posted a reduction in the number of total products sold for first time in recent years as pressure from the weak economy hurt growth.

"For the first time, there are signs that Cablevision's past success is finally catching up with it," said Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett.

Cablevision, which has more than 3 million customers overall, added 9,600 Internet subscribers and 9,300 phone subscribers during the quarter. But it lost 24,500 basic video customers.

Analysts at Bernstein Research had forecast Internet additions of 12,000 subscribers and phone additions of 18,000 subscribers. Bernstein had also expected Cablevision to lose just 14,000 basic video customers.

Cablevision has one of the highest penetration rates for selling combinations of video, Internet and phone services to customers in its area -- relative to other cable companies. This could end up being a disadvantage for growth going forward, said Moffett.

"Cablevision faces a greater risk of saturation than any of its peers," he said.

Cablevision had been locked in a high-profile programing fee dispute with News Corp which resulted in the blackout of Fox local stations in New York and Philadelphia for 15 days until the two sides resolved their differences last week.

While the company declined to say how many customers in the current quarter had canceled their subscriptions due to the Fox outage, Cablevision President Tom Rutledge said the standoff was justified.

"Our behavior was not uneconomic," Rutledge said on a conference call. "We were doing a rational thing." He explained that the number of losses was justified by the kind of deal it was able to reach with Fox.

Third-quarter net profit was $112.1 million, or 37 cents a share, compared with $98.9 million, or 33 cents a share, a year ago.

Revenue rose 5.6 percent to $1.81 billion.

Analysts on average had forecast profit of 41 cents a share on revenue of $1.79 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Cablevision has been successful in driving up the average revenue per user by 5.7 percent to $149.04.

Shares of Cablevision were up 3 percent at $28.46 on the New York Stock Exchange at midday.

Space station dodges piece of old NASA satellite

noreply@blogger.com (Daryl Lorette) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:28:00 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The International Space Station has steered clear of space junk.

Flight controllers fired thrusters on the space station Tuesday morning. That moved the orbiting lab and its crew of six safely away from a chunk of an old NASA research satellite.

The debris originally was projected to come within one-tenth of a mile of the space station. The latest estimate put the close approach at a half-mile. Because of the uncertainty, NASA elected to move the space station.

NASA says the space station relocation will have no significant impact on next Monday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery. Discovery launched the atmospheric research satellite in 1991.

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