Philadelphia - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's largest cable TV company and a provider of high-speed Internet to 13.2 million subscribers, on Tuesday announced that it will lead an industry-wide effort to create a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities," which would "clarify what choices and controls consumers should have when using P2P applications as well as what processes and practices ISPs should use to manage P2P applications running on their networks." The company said it partnered with Pando Networks, a provider of peer-to-peer based content delivery network services, on the initiative, and will work with the company to help migrate to a protocol-agnostic network management technique by the end of the year.

New York - Broadband provider Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will not be policing its own network for illegal file-sharing and reports that a recent test it conducted revealed that the new P4P protocol provides a significant boost in download performance while simultaneously reducing network congestion.

New York - Pando Networks, a provider of peer-to-peer file-sharing software, has secured $8.12 million of a $20.9 million second round of venture capital financing, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

New York - Pando Network, a provider of peer-assisted content delivery network services, announced on Wednesday that NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) will provide video delivery services for the new NBC Direct service, which will offer free downloads of primetime NBC TV shows. The service will offer full-length episode downloads of shows including "30 Rock," "The Office" and "The Tonight Show," as well as the ability to have new episodes automatically downloaded as they become available.

New York - ROO Group, a provider of Web video and advertising distribution services, announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Abacast and Pando Networks, to offer peer-to-peer streaming services to its customers. Abacast and Pando will work to integrate their technologies -- which count a combined 62 million users -- into the ROO Media Player, which may then be offered as white-label services to ROO customers.

Atlanta - Internap Network Services (NASD: INAP), a provider of content delivery network services, this week announced plans to introduce enterprise-grade peer-to-peer technology on its network, designed to support delivery of large libraries of content with a wide range of demand. The service, developed in partnership with Pando Networks, is expected to launch by the end of 2007.