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Cablevision's Anti-Bundling Lawsuit Won't Break the Cable Bundle

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 15:00
Don't be confused: Cablevision's anti-trust suit decrying the evils of "anti-consumer" bundling by Viacom, which have pushed cable-bills up oh-so-high, has nothing to do with the frustrations consumers have with cable bundling. As it explains in a press release announcing the suit, Cablevision wants to buy eight of Viacom's "must-have" networks, like MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon, but not its 14 "ancillary" channels, like MTV Tr3s, CMT, and Teen Nick. ...

Apple to hand out iTunes credits in settlement

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 14:56
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Apple has agreed to give more than $100 million in iTunes store credits to settle a lawsuit alleging that the iPhone and iPad maker improperly charged kids for playing games on their mobile devices.

Pentagon unveils plan to tap potential of mobile devices

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 14:33

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon unveiled a plan on Tuesday to ultimately enable the Defense Department's 600,000 users of smartphones, computer tablets and other mobile devices to rapidly share classified and protected data using the latest commercial technologies. The system aims to quickly enable the latest technologies to be securely used by the military while remaining "device agnostic," said Major General Robert Wheeler, a Defense Department deputy chief information officer. ...