AT&T’s new “Mobility Administrative Fee” is raising wireless bills by 61 cents a month — a move that could reportedly raise half a billion dollars for the company. [Read more]
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AT&T adds 61-cent 'mobility' fee to wireless bills
The show will air in 2014, first as a one-hour special and then as a regular series. It’s set chronologically between the third prequel film and the original “Star Wars” movie. [Read more]
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The computing industry has just begun taking the VP8 codec seriously, but Google wants people to adopt its brand-new successor. [Read more]
The Korean handset maker earned $5.1 billion of the $5.3 billion in global profits last quarter, says research firm Strategy Analytics. [Read more]
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Samsung grabs 95 percent of Android smartphone profits
When we last checked in with Sandvine’s stat trackers, Netflix reigned supreme in online video traffic at home, especially downstream. It’s still sitting pretty several months later, Sandvine tells AllThingsD . Quite possibly helped by the House of Cards debut , Netflix kept a healthy lead at 32.3 percent of downstream use on wired networks this past March. That’s no mean feat when some of its competition took big strides forward — YouTube jumped up to 17.1 percent, and Hulu likely rode sweeps season to get 2.4 percent. In mobile, it’s a different story. Netflix use on cellular almost doubled to 4 percent, but YouTube kept an uncontested lead at 27.3 percent of downstream use. It’s not hard to see why after looking at other video formats people prefer on the road: raw HTTP video (19.2 percent) and Facebook (8.6 percent) were the next-closest, which suggests that many still grab snack-sized videos on their phones instead of full movies or TV shows. We don’t expect the status quo to budge much in the near future, whether it’s on mobile or a fixed-line. Without major initiatives from veterans or the arrival of a new upstart, it isn’t clear just what would rock the boat. Filed under: Home Entertainment , Internet , HD , Google , Facebook Comments Via: AllThingsD Source: Sandvine
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Netflix keeps its lead in streaming video use at home, YouTube rules the road
The restructuring of the ailing TV maker includes pruning the global workforce and executives. [Read more]
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ATF says no law enforcement agency could unlock a defendant’s iPhone, but Apple can “bypass the security software” if it chooses. Apple has created a police waiting list because of high demand. [Read more]
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Apple deluged by police demands to decrypt iPhones
The sales milestone is on par with the number of Windows 7 licenses sold in its first six months on the market. [Read more]
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Microsoft sells more than 100M Windows 8 licenses in 6 months
YouTube has been making its own space on multiple entertainment services for a while, but according to a report from the Financial Times , it’s now on the cusp of revealing its own subscription services for some of its specialist video channels. Rumored for several months, according to the FT ‘s unnamed sources it will include up to 50 different channels, with subscription pricing starting at “as little as $1.99 a month.” Google has already followed up, saying it had nothing to announce just yet, but that it was investigating “a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube .” Filed under: Home Entertainment , Internet , HD , Google Comments Via: Gizmodo Source: Financial Times (subscription)
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Financial Times: YouTube is close to launching paid-subscription channels
According to new data, 19 billion chat messages were sent each day last year, compared to 17.6 billion SMS messages. [Read more]
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Chat apps now more popular than SMS worldwide