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65,000 Time Warner Customers Exposed To Remote Hacks
11:06AM Rosa Golijan | A vulnerability in their modems and routers has left 65,000 Time Warner customers vulnerable to having their admin menus remotely accessed by evil-doers. Time Warner says they’re aware of, and working on the issue as we type. [Wired] More »
Business
Chart Of The Day: Google’s Massive Cash Flow In Context II
Business
Comcast Could Be Quietly Preparing Plan To Control Pipes and Content
7:20AM Jack Loftus | Tea leaf-reading analysts are speculating this afternoon that Comcast is currently hoarding cash as part of an effort to revisit its 2003 spending spree days. You remember 2003, right? That was the year Comcast made a brash $US54 billion bid for Disney. More »
Business
AOL and Time Warner to Break Up
1:59AM Mark Wilson | AOL and Time Warner will split into two distinct entities by the end of the year. What AOL will do out in the cold without Time Warner’s blanket, only time will tell. [NYT] More »
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Time Warner Cable To Expand Its Bandwidth Caps To Additional Cities
12:50AM John Mahoney | Tests of a somewhat-more-draconian-than-normal 40GB monthly download cap in poor little Beaumont, Texas must have gone well for TWC, because they’re bringing bandwidth caps to more cities this year. Could your town be next? More »
Entertainment
Viacom Might Pull All Channels (Comedy Central, MTV) Off Time Warner Cable Tomorrow
5:15AM Matt Buchanan | Viacom wants Time Warner Cable to pay more for its channels, like MTV and Comedy Central. TWC doesn’t want to pay. So on Jan. 1, they could all go away for TWC subscribers. More »
Random Stuff
Ogle Cable Guys Between the Hours of Whenever and Anytime
8:30AM Jason Chen | Can’t get enough of your local cable guy and his blue paper booties? Order a Time Warner cable guy calendar. More »
Gadgets
Intel Wants FCC to Make Set-Top Box Ethernet Ports Mandatory
3:40AM Matt Buchanan | This would be great: Intel reps paid a visit to the FCC to lobby for making ethernet ports a requirement in new set-top boxes, meaning every set-top box would be IP capable. So connectivity like the cable industry’s tru2way dealio and home networking would go from bustable industry pact to government mandate. Odds of this happening? Well, there is a precedent like this, and FCC Chairmain Kevin Martin does enjoy stabbing the cable industryin the balls with burning pokers of openness, but nothing’s certain. [Ars] More »
Networks
Time Warner Monthly Data Caps Detailed
8:20AM Matt Buchanan | We’d heard about Time Warner Cable’s test run of consumption-based billing in Beaumont, Texas, back in January, though details were scant. Now they’re plentiful. The plans (for new subscribers only) start up on Thursday, but thankfully they’re not as bad as we imagined–the overage fee is only US$1/GB and is waived the first two months. Plans start US$30 for 768Kbps downloads and a 5GB cap, and go up to US$55 for a pretty sweet 15Mbps downstream and a 40GB cap. Not egregious, but we still hate it, especially since you’ll probably be seeing this in lotsa places, sooner than you’d expect. AU: Seriously? 15Mbps for $55 and 40GB? Where do I sign up? Honestly… I understand the US frustration, but how bad do we have it down here? Bad… More »
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