Comcast Xfinity TV app joins Xbox Live, won’t count against data cap [Roundup]

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• Facebook Taps Former Comcast Exec To Head Outreach Program [National Journal]
• The technical and legal realities of Comcast’s Xbox cap spat [Gigaom]
• Xbox 360’s Comcast Xfinity TV app in beta testing, won’t count against data caps when it launches [Engadget]
• Microsoft Xbox Live to add Comcast, HBO Go today [Gigaom]
• Comcast, Verizon face critics at Senate hearing [Inquirer]
• How will Comcast ‘beat the brains’ out of Verizon FiOS? [FierceCable]
• AT&T, Comcast, Other ISPs Urged by U.S. to Step Up Cybersecurity on Home PCs [Bloomberg]

• A Look At Comcast’s Growth Prospects [city biz list]
• Comcast Business takes a continuous improvement model to CEM [FierceTelecom]
• Comcast to introduce new business phone service [Inquirer] — “a new package of high-definition business phones with software features that, for instance, allow sales staff or other employees to transfer on Microsoft Outlook an incoming phone call to another phone or phones.”
• Comcast Rolls Business Voice Into the Cloud [Light Reading Cable]
• Apps Helping Comcast Market Its Digital Library [Hispanic Business]
• Comcast, NBCUniversal pledge to hire 1,000 veterans [Today Show]
• Comcast Promotes Three Women to Senior VP Operator elevates Tracy Pitcher, Rebecca Scilingo and Amy Stipandic [Broadcasting & Cable]
• Comcast Applauds Work of the FCC’s CSRIC on Online Security and Safety [Comcast Voices]
• Comcast Adds Text Appeal For Voice Subs [Multichannel News] — “Comcast — looking to give customers two new reasons to keep their landlines — is offering Xfinity Voice Unlimited Nationwide plan subscribers free, unlimited text messaging from mobile apps plus the ability to receive transcribed voicemail messages via e-mail.”
• Comcast Corporation Names D’Arcy F. Rudnay Chief Communications Officer [Business Wire]
• Comcast Pulls Back On IPv6 Rollout, Citing Netgear Modem Glitch [Multichannel News]
• Comcast to Host First Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call  [Business Wire] — May 2