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Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 19:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Aereo gets set for Atlanta debut
Message-ID: <739ce6f5-fdcd-4612-9288-d7dc1e68fdce@b2g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
CNET: Aereo gets set for Atlanta debut
by Jonathan Skillings May 14, 2013 5:25 AM PDT
Aereo is on a roll, with plans now to bring its streaming TV service
to Atlanta.
The Atlanta launch is scheduled for June 17, the company announced
Tuesday. The capital of Georgia will be the third city to get the
Aereo service, following New York and, from Wednesday of this week,
Boston.
The news of the launch comes a day after Aereo reset its pricing
structure. Starting Wednesday, consumers can pay $8 per month to get a
base membership plan to use Aereo's cloud-based antenna/DVR
technology, receiving 20 hours of DVR storage in the bargain. For $12
a month, they can upgrade to 60 hours of DVR storage.
Continued:
http://tinyurl.com/btal2j3
And yeah, I know -- I should have put "stealing" in quote marks in my
comment.
Neal McLain
a/k/a texascableguy
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 09:02:05 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals
Message-ID: <p06240832cdb935d5d0b2@[10.0.1.3]>
Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals
By AMY CHOZICK and BEN PROTESS
May 10, 2013
A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation
that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers' private
information through the company's ubiquitous data terminals to break
news.
The company confirmed that reporters at Bloomberg News, the
journalism arm of Bloomberg L.P., had for years used the company's
terminals to monitor when subscribers had logged onto the service and
to find out what types of functions, like the news wire, corporate
bond trades or an equities index, they had looked at. Bloomberg
terminals, which cost an average of more than $20,000 a year, are
found in nearly every banking and trading company.
Bloomberg said the functions that allowed journalists to monitor
subscribers were a mistake and were promptly disabled after Goldman
Sachs complained that a Bloomberg reporter had, while inquiring about
a partner's employment status, pointed out that the partner had not
logged onto his Bloomberg terminal lately.
The incident led to broader concerns about the line at Bloomberg
between its lucrative terminal business and the hypercompetitive
newsroom, threatening to undermine the credibility of both. In a
secretive world that thrives on opacity, traders and financial firms
jealously guard every speck of information about their activity to
avoid tipping their hand on their trades and investments.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/business/media/privacy-breach-on-bloombergs-data-terminals.html
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