"Digital Newsstand" For Android Devices.

#Digital #Newsstand For Android Devices. http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like Google wants news for itself, or at least us to read news on Android devices. According to WSJ, Google has approached Time Warner, Condé Nast and Hearst, three biggest newspaper and periodical publishing companies, seeking content.
To make it attractive, Google even might offer to take in a smaller percentage of revenue than that of Apple and Amazon, which is said to be 30%.

News Corp., also tried a similar campaign to sign up publishers for an online newsstand where consumers could pay to access digital versions of periodicals media companies. But they shelved the project last fall.
WSJ

NBC and Time Warner Not Joining iPad Revolution, Decides To Flash Instead.

NBC and Time Warner Not Joining iPad Revolution, http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Looks like not everyone jump when Steve Jobs asks them. Some media houses are not sacrifising flash in order to be on iPad revolusion;

Sources said several large media companies, including Time Warner and NBC Universal, told Apple they won't retool their extensive video libraries to accommodate the iPad, arguing that such a reformatting would be expensive and not worth it because Flash dominates the Web.

n addition, one media executive pointed out that Apple's ability to dictate terms to the media giants will be weakened further by Google TV, a software product that enables viewers to watch online video on their big-screen TVs.

Steve Jobs does not like flash and there was a lot of back and forth discussions about Flash on Apple mobile platforms.
NYPost via engadget

Time Warner Caps Monthly Data Rate Beyond Texas, Switch To Lesser Devils.

Time Warner Bandwidth Cap
Time Warner is Extending the its the draconian 40GB cap test in Beumont, Texas, to other cities. According to Business week, In April, Time Warner Cable will begin collecting information on its customers' Internet use in the Texas cities of Austin and San Antonio and in Rochester, N.Y. Consumption billing will begin in those cities later this summer. In Greensboro, N.C., the billing changes will begin sooner.

May it is time to switch to a service like, Comcast (250GB cap), AT&T (150GB). I am against the caps but 150GB is better than puny 40GB.

So may be it is drive by time warner to send you to theaters to watch movies as Gizmodo explained, "Every gig you overshoot your cap costs a dollar, meaning an HD movie download from iTunes could end up costing another $5 on top the $20 you're paying for the movie. Just four HD movies (assuming a conservative 5GB per flick) would swallow half of your allowed data for the month."

Forget about HD youtube and other tubes! Bandwidth caps Suck.

Businessweek via Gizmodo

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