Comcast struggles to quantify TV Everywhere iPad viewership [Roundup]

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• Cable companies offer free Wi-Fi — what’s the catch? [Audio: Marketplace Tech]
• TV Everywhere’s Counting Problem [All Things Digital] — “Witness Comcast’s announcement yesterday, made at the cable industry’s annual convention in Boston, that it has been working with Nielsen on a plan to count viewers when they watched video on an iPad*, using Comcast’s Xfinity app. For various technical reasons, this is much harder than you’d think, and the two companies have already been beavering away at this for 18 months.”
• Extra lane: how Comcast assures that Xfinity TV on Xbox 360 works well [Ars Technica]
• New Comcast services threaten wireless text and data revenue [Cnet]
• Comcast CEO Roberts not attending The Cable Show [FierceCable]

• The Cable Show 2012: Verizon, Comcast Unveil ‘viewdini’ Mobile Search Product Signs on XFinity [Multichannel News]
• Comcast service would connect home phone line to smartphones [LA Times]
• Cable firms warn against heavy government oversight of Web [LA Times]
• Comcast Asks FCC to Revoke Boston’s New License to Reregulate Rates FCC’s Media Bureau had recertified the city in April [Broadcasting & Cable]
• Cable Show 2012: Comcast To Take X1 Guide To Some Existing Set-Tops, Too CTO Werner Says MSO to Deploy Cloud-Based Interface to RNG 150 Boxes [Multichannel News]
• Comcast: An Impressive 9-Month Run Has Sent The Stock Up To Very High Levels [Seeking Alpha]
• Comcast Ventures Join $12M Round for BodyMedia [Citybizlist]
• Comcast Spotlight Forms Advanced-Ad Unit, Teams With SMGx ‘CM 360’ to Focus on Targeting, Interactivity and Measurement [Multichannel News]
• Adobe Names Three New Members to Its Board of Directors [Business Wire] — Including Amy Banse, the managing director and head of funds for Comcast Ventures.
• Fake Comcast workers flee after home invasion [Houston Chronicle]