Day: October 13, 2013

Netflix in talks for cable TV deals — report

Talks are in early stages with Comcast and other pay TV providers to offer the online video service as an option on their set-top boxes, according to The Wall Street Journal…….


Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Weeks Or Two Months

An anonymous reader writes “It looks like nobody is quite sure how long it will take to fix the health insurance marketplace website. ‘”One person familiar with the system’s development said that the project was now roughly 70 percent of the way toward operating properly, but that predictions varied on when the remaining 30 percent…


Obamacare Website Fixes Could Take Two Week Or Two Months

An anonymous reader writes “It looks like nobody is quite sure how long it will take to fix the health insurance marketplace website. ‘”One person familiar with the system’s development said that the project was now roughly 70 percent of the way toward operating properly, but that predictions varied on when the remaining 30 percent…


Commonwealth wins disclosure in Attachmate copyright stoush

Setback for Attachmate as it pursues the Australian Defence Department for copyright infringement of its software…….


Kiwi ‘ccountancy cloud collects colossal cash casket

Xero wins another $NZD180m in funding……


Back door found in D-Link routers

D-secret is D-logon string allowing access to everything……


Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy

Lasrick writes “Danielle N. Lee, Ph.D, the Urban Scientist blogger at Scientific American, has been mistreated twice: once by the blog editor at biology-online.org and now by SciAm itself. The blog editor asked Dr. Lee to contribute a blog post at Biology-Online, and when she declined (presumably for lack of monetary compensation), the blog editor…


For Apple’s new iPad, it’s (r)evolution, baby

Thinner, lighter, more productive. So what? With the next-generation iPad, there’s a bigger storyline underway…….


Elevated Radiation Claimed At Tokyo 2020 Olympic Venues

An anonymous reader writes “A citizens’ group in Tokyo claims to have found elevated levels of radioactivity at 39 sporting venues earmarked for the 2020 Olympic Games. Expert and organizers are cautious about the findings but see no problem, as the levels do not pose an immediate threat to human health. From the article: ‘”It…


Can a $249 Android-Linux ‘hacker’s tablet’ take flight?

Crave’s Eric Mack has been testing a prototype of the fully open-source PengPod 1040, just now wrapping up its crowdfunding campaign, and he’s reached a few conclusions about the underdog slate…….