November 15, 2024

Month: October 2016

AT&T to offer low Internet Streaming Service, undercutting Cable TV

attlogo2AT&T is going to be offering its own Internet TV Streaming Service for as little as $35.00 a month.

The service, called DirecTV Now, will offer up to 100 + channels, plus other perks.  The service will be available sometime in November.

According to AT&T CEO Randall Stevenson, AT&T envisions DirecTV Now as service that will eventually operate now just over landline internet connection but across 5G wireless connections, which it plans to deploy by 2018 and expand in 2019 and 2020.

Report: Samsung’s Galaxy S7 Edge catching fire

galaxys7edge“Samsung’s troubles have apparently just spread from the Note 7 to another flagship phone,” Mark Spoonauer reports for Tom’s Guide. “According to Android Headlines, a Canadian man says his Galaxy S7 Edge caught fire while he was driving home from work. And that’s not the only incident.”

“Separately, Phone Arena reports that an employee of one of the big U.S. wireless carriers told the site that one of its customers’ Galaxy S7 Edge devices had exploded while it was charging overnight using the included charger,” Spoonauer reports. “In the case of the first Canadian gentleman, he says that he smelled something burning and saw smoke coming from the center console, at which point he threw the S7 Edge out of the window and then covered the device with snow.”

“An Ohio man is suing Samsung because he claims that the handset caught fire in his pocket, and he had to undergo painful skin grafts to address the second- and third-degree burns,” Spoonauer reports. “Meanwhile, Samsung still hasn’t pinpointed the exact cause of the Note 7 explosions and fires, according to The Wall Street Journal, and the company has apparently lost more than $20 billion in value as a result of the recall.”

Read more in the full article here.

Target to Carry Bonus Disc for Star Trek Beyond Blu-Ray

According to web site Trek Core, Target is gearing up to offer an exclusive Blu-Ray edition of the Star Trek Beyond movie.

According to Target's web site:

Go inside the making of the epic blockbuster Star Trek Beyond in this 3-disc Blu-ray Combo Pack, only at Target!

• Exclusive packaging includes 4-double sided collectible cards featuring 8 characters from Star Trek Beyond.
• Bonus blu-ray disc with over 90 minutes of extras including 45 minutes of exclusive content: Get a behind the scenes look at the film’s incredible visual effects, costumes and props. Plus, see how Director Justin Lin and the cast and crew of Star Trek Beyond created the climactic Battle of Yorktown, and more!

The retail store is already accepting pre-orders.  For more information, click here.

What’s the Biggest threat to the U.S. Political System?

cnbclogo(CNBC.com): For Carmen Medina, the biggest threat facing our nation today is the "super-empowered individual."

The former CIA deputy director of intelligence joined CNBC's Squawk Box team Tuesday to discuss intelligence, cybersecurity, the geopolitical situation and the fight against terrorism. Later today she will be at CNBC's first-ever Net/Net Summit: Promoting Innovation and Managing Change, at the New York Stock Exchange. The summit examines the ways top companies and executives are promoting and managing innovation, responding to rapid change and using technology to accelerate growth.

The summit comes just days after the massive DDoS attack on the internet domain directory Dyn on Oct. 21, in which hackers managed to knock offline a number of popular websites, including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal, Amazon and Spotify. What made this attack so disturbing is that it appears to have been carried out through hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, baby monitors and routers.

"Just about anybody with decent computer literacy could pull something off like that," said Medina, who has 32 years in the intelligence field. She added: "The attacks last week could very well have been disaffected gamers."

The biggest threat facing our nation right now could involve election night, she said. "You could have a series of cyberattacks that, lets say on election night, denial-of-service attacks on state election boards and major news outlets that would make it impossible to access returns would cast this sort of uncertainty, distrust, about the election process."

As a leader in the analytics directorate, Medina has vast experience dealing with briefing CEOs and government officials about tech vulnerabilities. Her advice: "Two things I would tell you. First, you got to understand how that person absorbs information. If that person is emotional, you have to brief with some emotional resonance. And second, bad news — you've got to deliver bad news early and often. I think a lot of people when they are briefing their superior, they try to sugarcoat the bad news, and in today's world that's a mistake."

Via: CNBC.COM

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