TeXtra TeXtra86: Ludicrous Speed Wi-Fi And A Better Place For Politics

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Dec 13, 2007 TeXtra86: Ludicrous Speed Wi-Fi And A Better Place For Politics

Story 1: Day 1 at NBC breaks up with YouTube in favor of Hulu. This is confirmed by NewTeeVee.

Story 2: Researchers at IBM are working on a new wireless protocol that is reportedly 100 times faster than Wi-Fi!

Story 3: Time Magazine launches The Page, a one-stop portal for election coverage.

Story 4: Orange Telecom customers can now access Bebo on their mobile phones unlimitedly for £3 per month.

Story 5: MySpace will be developing a casual gaming channel by January, according to TechCrunch.

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  • Natali Del Conte

    Natali Del Conte

    10/24/2007 02:20 pm

    Woah! I didn't know that about unlimited data plans. That is insane! I pay approximately $30 per month and I thought that was expensive. Thanks for chiming in ZKarj!

    As for Heroes, I've got a friend saving them for me on his DVR so we're going to have a marathon night sometime soon. I know nothing about this season yet so shhhhhhh!!!!

  • zkarj

    zkarj

    10/24/2007 03:06 am

    whilst in the USA unlimited data plans may be ubiquitous and semi-affordable, this is likely not the case in many other countries. Certainly here in New Zealand data plans are so expensive that most people don't have plans at all unless their place of work provides their phone.

    Our sole GSM provider charges approx USD$52 per month for 3GB of data on a 3G network. I haven't checked what our only other (CDMA) provider offers but it will be similar.

    I could not find an unlimited plan for personal use.

  • sunsnapper

    sunsnapper

    10/23/2007 10:26 pm

    You can catch Heroes repeats at NBC or Netflix. The NBC version is flash, so I would think it would work on the Mac. Netflix bummer looks like PC only.

    (I wouldn't go back too far on the episodes, anyways. This season has been off to a slow start. Starting to get better now. You can catch Chuck and 30Rock at NBC, too.)
    http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/episodes.shtml
    http://www.netflix.com/WatchNowMovie?movieid=70070300

    The Page at Time does look good.
    Favorably compares to the Hardball, News Hour and This Week political roundups. C-Span web site still hard to beat for unfiltered coverage.

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