Netflix content
Netflix Inc. is trying to buy the Internet streaming rights to "House of Cards," a 26-episode drama starring Kevin Spacey, before the series is displayed on a television network. If the deal is finalized, it would be a bold step in providing its own original content to mark her 20 million subscribers. Netflix currently offers more than 20,000 titles in its streaming library, but most of them are previously aired TV shows and older movies. Should the right to "house of cards" win, Netflix would emerge as a more serious threat to pay-TV channels such as HBO.
Apple tweaks
Apple Inc has changed how purchases within the iPhone and iPad games be authorized after customers complained that their children were racking up hundreds of dollars in costs. The problem was that after a user iTunes password entered on a device, the device will not be prompted for the password again for 15 minutes. All purchases, or in the iTunes store or within, kid-friendly games such as "the the Smurf Village," by without a new password.
Data beams
AT&T is placing a limit on the amount of data that are home Internet subscribers in a month. AT&T depicted the announcement as an attempt to curb "data hogs", but it might help the company in the long term an income stream preserved as people shift to Internet-based TV services.
AT&T said it will start charging extra after subscribers over 150 gigabytes in a month, an amount which it said only 2 percent of the subscribers. AT&T said that the average monthly consumption for DSL customers is 18 GB. For U-verse, a faster version of DSL available in some areas, will the monthly CAP 250 gigabytes.
Scanners defended
Two Transportation Security Administration officials, witnesses before skeptical House members on Wednesday, said machines at airports imaging software that enables images from is stored, saved or sent. The officials also said his "backscatter" advanced imaging machine was safe, emit in one screening a low level of radiation similar to a dose of 2 minutes of flying in an airplane at 30,000 feet.
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