Posts Tagged ‘hbo’

This week we look at:

• Windows Phone 7 (Formerly Windows Mobile 7) and what it might mean to smartphones
• Google Buzz Sued over privacy issues. I found this one on Google Buzz.
• HBO Go shows us that at least Pay TV channels get it
• Social Networking in Microsoft Outlook – Good idea, or will the IT department just block it?
• Happy 20th birthday Adobe Photoshop!

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The New York Times looks at the efforts of U. S. ISPs to institute tiered pricing plans. Read the full story here; it appears to be an excellent, unbiased analysis.

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Cable executives say the issue is not competition but cost. People who watch or download a lot of movies and TV shows use hundreds of times more Internet capacity than those who simply read e-mail and browse the Web. It is only fair, they argue, that heavy users should pay more.

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Time Warner Usage Pricing – AP
College Filtering of ISP – Ars Technica
Open Minded Mac Buyers – Toms Hardware
Buyback option – CNN
MySpace fixes Voyeur bug – Wired
HBO to Go – Cnet

On The Geek:

Navigate a Jailbroken iPhone with voice
Bug Labs Opens Doors
Defeat Yahoo’s CAPTCHA

Mobile Phones cause Sleep Problems? – BBC
Yahoo Layoffs Comming – Cnet
Crunchies – Dan Farber
Javascript Worm – ArsTechnica
Outsource the Inbox – fourhourworkweek

Saas to improve Government – ZDNet
Rock Star Coder – Computerworld
Vishing – ArsTechnica
Microsoft to Give Money – Yahoo
Pownce on it – TechCrunch

Of Note:
The Wootable Awards
Mac 10.5.2 Screenshots
Mac vs…. Commodore?
Lightsaber Lamps
90 Computers from the Past
Batcave Home Theatre
LED Cellphone
Hard Drive Dominoes

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HBO announced today they will be putting content online for their subscribers. CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX and CW have full episodes of shows online. Even pay cable channels like TBS and Spike TV are putting shows online. Even Netflix has increased the limits to watching movies online, and new services are starting to do the same subscription movie viewing.
No more having to go to the video store and get a movie or season of a popular TV show. No more waiting for the next time it broadcasts. It will be there at your fingertips. This is just another example of how the internet is replacing TV and DVD as we know it. But can the internet handle it?

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