Comcast to acquire $150M stake in product manufacturer Arris [Comcast Roundup]

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• Comcast to Acquire $150 Million Stake in Manufacturer Arris [BusinessWeek]
• Comcast TV service is changing, big-time, with X1: Slideshow [Philadelphia Business Journal] “You can control your TV by talking into your iPhone, use your remote to send out tweets about your favorite show and search for programming based on the name of an actor or sports team, not just the title of a movie or a program. It also advances Comcast in the video recording wars between it and satellite.”
• Comcast, GE Seen Fast-Tracking NBCU In $16 Bil Deal [Investors.com]
• Comcast Seeks to Strip ‘MyTVPal’ of Trademark [Multichannel News]
• Comcast Sells Me Data Speeds It Can’t Possibly Deliver [The Consumerist]
• Intel at CES: Ultrabooks, Comcast partnership, and gesture controls [VentureBeat] “Intel also announced that it is partnering with cable-giant Comcast to bring all of its Xfinity channels to Intel-devices, as Forbes notes — without a set-top box.”
• NBC Sports Network to sponsor nation’s largest gun show [FreeBeacon]