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Combining Adobe's LiveCycle Enterprise Suite with IntraLinks' solutions for secure collaboration, companies aim to turn the document-intensive clinical trial process into a paperless experience.   -  IntraLinks and Adobe are teaming up to develop solutions that will automate
cross-organization data capture and submission-based business processes within
the life sciences industry. The initial solution IntraLinks and Adobe are
bringing to market addresses the document-intensive clinical trial p...]]></description>
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of health and information technology on Nov. 10. 

While details of the show remain largely under wraps,
Microsoft posted a video trailer for the show on the Microsoft
HealthBlog. The show will be hosted ...]]></description>
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controversial harm standard for triggering a personal health record
data breach notification with a risk assessment approach that requires
organizations to determine whether the data was actually viewed or
acquired by an unauthorized...]]></description>
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<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Microsoft-Launches-Swine-Flu-Response-Site-743830/?kc=rss</link>
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A new site offers a self-assessment and helps people determine whether their symptoms could be caused by the H1N1 flu virus.   -  Microsoft Oct. 7 announced a new Website, the H1N1 Response Center, which provides users with relevant content and allows consumers to gauge symptoms and receive guidance using an H1N1 self-assessment service. The site offers consumers a self-assessment licensed from medical and public health expert...]]></description>
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<title>IT Firms Uneasy with Some Health Care Reforms</title>
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A new survey shows the IT industry generally supports health care reform, including a public option, but concerns center on higher taxes and more government involvement.   -  Mirroring the current congressional debate, the IT industry generally supports health care reform but is uneasy with many of the legislative solutions currently on the table. According to a survey released Oct. 6 by CompTIA, the IT industry is closely watching the debate, particularly provisions inv...]]></description>
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<title>IBM Looks to Make DNA Analysis Cheap and Easy</title>
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IBM scientists are developing a technology that will enable physicians and other researchers to quickly and easily read and analyze strands of DNA, an advancement that could lead to greater personalized health care. The scientists are looking to create a DNA transistor in which a DNA molecule is threaded through a 3-nm nanopore and the genetic information is analyzed. The key challenge is finding a way to control the speed in which the DNA runs through the nanopore. Health care providers armed with an individuals genetic information can more easily determine diseases to which the patient is predisposed, and which treatments would work best.   -  IBM scientists are developing a chip that can easily and quickly read strands of DNA, a development that could lead to more personalized health care.
The goal of the research project, announced Oct. 6, is to create the capability to analyze a persons genome information for as little as $1,000, whic...]]></description>
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<title>Lawmakers Urge Lower Bar for Health IT Data Breach Notification</title>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Lawmakers-Urge-Lower-Bar-for-Health-IT-Data-Breach-Notification-767831/?kc=rss</link>
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Chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Ways and Means Committee remind Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that Congress considered and rejected the very rules that now trigger a health IT data breach notification.   -  Two key chairmen of U.S. House committees Oct. 1 urged Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to revise or appeal the agency's controversial  quot;harm standard quot; that would trigger a personal health record data breach notification.

Under the current rules, for companies that s...]]></description>
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<title>MSN Debuts &#x27;My Health Info&#x27; Service</title>
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The My Health Info beta service offers tools and widgets with which to organize and monitor health information stored in personal Microsoft HealthVault accounts.   -  MSN released Oct. 1 a beta form of My
Health Info, an  quot;online service that helps people manage their health
information on the Web, quot; Microsoft said in a statement. The service  quot;offers
people a variety of tools and widgets [with which] to upload, organize and
monitor health informa...]]></description>
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<title>Nine Health and Fitness Apps for Your iPhone</title>
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Like applications that help you lead a greener, more environmentally friendly lifestyle, applications dedicated to improving your health and fitness are a growing presence on Apple's App Store. Many are free or priced below $5, and the more expensive apps will give you a detailed tour through human anatomy. Keep in mind Apple divides the health apps into two categories:  Healthcare and Fitness  and  Medical  Here's a list of nine applications that teach you how to lead a healthier existence-of course, you still have to do the work yourself, so close down that MonkeyBall application and start counting calories.By Nathan Eddy   -  ...]]></description>
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<title>Health IT Data Breaches: No Harm, No Foul</title>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Health-IT-Data-Breaches-No-Harm-No-Foul-293398/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[
Under new rules developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA-covered health care providers, health plans and other health entities must notify patients of data breaches involving their health information. Unless, of course, they decide not to.   -  Data breach notification rules for health entities covered by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act take effect Sept. 23. Under the rules issued by the Department of Health and Human
Services, (PDF) health care providers and health plans will be required to
notify individuals of...]]></description>
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<title>Disruptive Change Predicted for Health IT Market</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
While the Obama administration's drive to dramatically increase health IT spending portends a financial bonanza for vendors, the boom will not come without risks, says Input.   -  The U.S.
health IT market is set for disruptive change, predicts a report by Input released
Sept. 10. The key drivers of the change will occur  quot;as the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act and national health care legislation increase the
need for innovative health care technology that als...]]></description>
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<title>Dell to Help Hospitals Adopt Electronic Medical Records</title>
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<description><![CDATA[
Dell is rolling out a package of hardware, software and services designed to make it easier and less costly for hospitals and their affiliated physicians adopt electronic medical records. EMR systems not only promise to make healthcare less costly and more efficient, but also is a key goal behind the federal governments economic stimulus package. Dells solution would be hosted by the hospital or a Dell partner, and would include Dell hardware and third-party applications.   -  Dell is offering hospitals and their affiliated physicians an
electronic medical information system that removes the barriers of
complexity and cost from the equation.
Dell on Sept. 10 announced its Affiliated Physicians EMR offering, a
combination of hardware, software and support that will mak...]]></description>
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<title>EDS Extends Deal With DoD Military Health System</title>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/EDS-Extends-Deal-With-DoD-Military-Health-System-804023/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[
A new $8.1 million, 12-month add-on contract will provide applications development to the Disability Evaluation System as well as the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application.   -  EDS signed Sept. 8 an $8.1
million, 12-month add-on contract with the DoD (U.S. Department of
Defense) Military Health System to make technical enhancements to
several Defense Health Information Management Systems. The contract extends the 16-year relationship between EDS, an HP company, and the ...]]></description>
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<title>Feds Issue New HIPAA Data Breach Rules</title>
<link>http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Feds-Issue-New-HIPPA-Data-Breach-Rules-451800/?kc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[
For health care providers, health plans and other entities -- including business associates of covered entities -- that do not encrypt their health IT data, new regulations require prompt notifications to consumers in the event of a data breach.   -  The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services has issued new regulations requiring health
care providers, health plans and
other entities covered by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act) to notify individuals when their health
information is breached. The breach notific...]]></description>
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<title>Verizon&#x27;s Droid Launch: Your Complete Guide</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046725.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Droid is out. This article includes some basic information on the new phone, including specs, reviews, and alternatives.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Head First iPhone Development</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046726.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this book you will learn to use iPhone SDK tools, including Interface Builder and Xcode, to help you create your own iPhone apps. Authors Dan and Tracey Pilone have focused on helping you understand how it all works instead of just providing code snippets.Read | Permalink
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<title>MoDaCo&#x27;s Completely Crazy 43 Minute Touch HD2 Video</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046727.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you have the time, this is a 43:43 minute video on all the features of the new HTC Touch HD2.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Google Dashboard: One Service to Rule Them All</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046728.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Google's Dashboard is an easier way to access and get information on all your Google account features. This article includes a 2.5-minute video on setting up and using the Dashboard.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Did the CrunchPad Crumble Under High Costs?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The CrunchPad web-tablet was originally supposed to sell for about $200. Then suppliers raised their prices forcing the sales price up. Then... The silence from TechCrunch has been loud.Read | Permalink
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<title>Verizon May Charge Motorola Droid Users for Exchange Access</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046715.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Let's say you get a new Droid device and decide to sync it with your company's Exchange servers - if you use Verizon as your carrier you may get hit with some extra access fees.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>NY Attorney General Sues Intel for Bribing PC Makers</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046716.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has taken on Intel in a federal anti-trust suit on behalf of New York citizens. The claim is that Intel has paid manufacturers hundreds of millions of dollars to cap production of machines with non-Intel chips.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Snow Leopard Update Will Not Kill Hackintoshes</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046717.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rumors have been swirling across the internet regarding Apple's OS X 10.6.2 update and how it will affect Atom-powered netbooks. No release date has been announced but it now appears it won't kill hackintoshes.Read | Permalink
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<title>Sony Unveils Android-based Xperia X10</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046698.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Xperia X10 is an Android-based handset which includes a wireless stereo headset, new apps, and a new user interface platform. The X10 isn't going to be available until early next year but, this site includes a short video showing some of its features.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Core Data--Apple&#x27;s API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046699.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you're developing for Mac OS X or the iPhone, at some point you are going to use Cocoa to handle the data. In this book author Marcus Zarra shows how using Apple's Core Data framework can make it easier.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>HTC HD2 With 4.3-inch Screen Shipping to Europe, Asia</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046700.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[High Tech Computer (HTC) has started shipping the HD2 smartphone to Europe and Asia with plans to release it in the US early in 2010. The device will use the Windows Mobile OS and includes Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity.Read | Permalink
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<title>Next-Gen Car Dashboard Talks to the Cloud</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046701.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tech consortium ng Connect showed off a functional concept car that can become its own Wi-Fi hot spot, playing movies on demand while it checks for crowd-sourced information on potholes.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>PCs shed pounds and CD drives, gain touch screens</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046680.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[CDs and DVD are following floppy drives into extinction and state-of-the-art is no longer a big seller. So what are people finding to love in new computers?Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>ConXit Connection Wizard</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046681.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you have two electronic devices, at some point you'll probably want to connect them. StarTech.com has launched the ConXit Connection Wizard, an on-line tool, to help you find the right converter, extender, splitter, interface card, or cable to connect your devices.Read | Permalink
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<title>BFG Tech Deimos X-10</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046683.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[It has an 18.4-inch LCD, weighs 13 pounds, has a 48-minute battery life, and costs over $4,000. Though it may out-perform many laptops, such a laptop doesn't really encourage much moving around.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Redfly Dumb Terminal for BlackBerry</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046684.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Celio is offering Redfly as a netbook-sized terminal you can connect to your BlackBerry or other smartphone. The device lets you use the larger keyboard and display to use apps on the phone.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>After one year, Conficker infects 7 million computers</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046660.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Having lasted for a year, Conficker is ranked as "successful" malware. Many of the 7 million infected machines are thought to be running illegal copies of Windows which are blocked from getting the necessary patches.Read | Permalink
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<title>How Users Took Over Twitter</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046661.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter is: 1) a social network site; 2) a new business model; 3) they don't know yet. Evidence leans heavily in favor of number 3 as users rewrite Twitter code and the service lacks a coherent business model.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>uTorrent 2.0 To Eliminate The Need For ISP Throttling</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046662.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new BitTorrent protocol, uTorrent 2.0, is being tested. The new protocol is expected to optimize user downloads will eliminating the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>How To Charge Your Laptop</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046663.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[There are a number of theories on charging, and using, batteries in electronic devices. This article offers four tips to help you extend the life of rechargeable batteries.Read | Permalink
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<title>Chocolate Would Be More Useful Than Antivirus Software in Breach Settlement</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046645.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[TD Ameritrade offered its customers a deal - some anti-virus software to make up for their financial information, on Ameritrade's servers, having been compromised. Maybe they could use chocolate to plug the security holes to better effect.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>The Samsung Omnia 2 in Detail</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046646.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This article includes a 5-minute video showing features of Samsung's I8000 Omnia II smartphone. The phone runs Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046647.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sanford Wallace calls himself the "spam king". So it seems fitting that the courts have awarded Facebook the kingly sum of $711 million in a default judgment against Wallace.Read | Permalink
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<title>Fennec Fits Everything You Love About Firefox Into Your Pocket</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046648.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Firefox will finally be showing up on mobile devices by the end of this year. Fennec for Maemo Beta 4 is being tested on the Nokia N900 device with others to follow.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Daylight Savings Time Patch</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046627.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you have a Windows Mobile device, even WinMo 6.5, you need a patch for the daylight savings time change. Europe changed last weekend, the U.S. is changing this weekend. This notice includes a link to the CAB file.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Verizon Droid: 5 Standout Features</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046628.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Droid will be in stores next week. What does it offer? This article gives five things to like about the Droid and a link to a five-minute video.Read | Permalink
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<title>Google Closes the Loop on Music Search</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google's new "OneBox" music search feature lets you search for music by artist, album name, or song name returning playable links so you can hear the music.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>HP Pavilion dm3</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046630.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[This new notebook from HP has a 13.3-inch screen,1.3-GHz Core 2 Duo microchip, 2 GB of RAM, and a 500-GB hard drive making it a nice, but maybe not stellar, machine.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>How to Un-Cripple Your International Kindle</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046607.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you bought an International Kindle, hoping to be able to use it internationally, and have been disappointed this article may help. It explains how to use Instapaper and Calibre to get your newspaper and other publications onto your new Kindle.Read | Permalink
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<title>Android 2.0, Release 1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google has released the Android 2.0 SDK. This reference article lists built-in applications, locales, and other platform highlights.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Hands-On With the Fonera 2.0n</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you'd like an extra Wi-Fi network at home, the Fonera 2 does 802.11n networking and can share files for you. It may not be as visually appealing as its geek-factor suggests.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>New MobileDemand xTablet T7000 Small, Light, Rugged Tablet PC with Windows 7</title>
<link>http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00046610.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[MobileDemand has introduced the xTablet T7000 which combines the functionality of a notebook, full Windows OS of a tablet and the portability and data collection capabilities of a handheld.Read | Permalink
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<title>New article: Replacing your broken PSP analog stick</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By James Booth
With the exception of the LCD screen, the analog stick is probably the most fragile component of the PSP. And while some seem to take abuse for years without failing, others give up the ghost rather quickly. Provided your PSP is already out of warranty, why not make the repair yourself and save some time and money in the process?

Certainly, you can return your PSP to Sony for repair, but they'll charge you quite a fair sum. And you won't get your original device back; what you'll get in return is a refurbished model, possibly not as cosmetically pristine as the original in Figure A.

FIGURE A
Sony's Playstation Portable gaming platform. Click picture for a larger image.

The analog stickSony's choice of design in the analog stick of the PSP was a somewhat poorly thought out concept. It's made of inferior plastic, lightweight, easily-breakable components, and has a tendency to stick and drift. Sony really could have done a better job. The up-side is that it's relatively easy to replace the analog stick, and they're pretty inexpensive to come by.

If you need to replace your PSP's analog stick, then click here to learn more.
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<title>Hands On With Nokia&#x27;s N900</title>
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<title>Facebook to preserve accounts of the dead</title>
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<title>Google Releases Voice Light for Any Mobile Number</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google Voice is opening up to people who don't want to change their phone numbers. This article explains the new Light version and includes a 1-minute video.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>iPhone GPS Tour Guide of New York City Helps Tourists and New Yorkers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new iPhone application turns the device into a handheld GPS-based tour guide. CityShow NYC will provide historic facts, anecdotes, photos, music, and descriptions for hundreds of points-of-interest in Manhattan.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Sprint to sell Palm Pixi beginning Nov. 15</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Pixi is a smaller, cheaper version of Palm's Pre. It's expected to cost about $100 a month, with a two-year contract, when it becomes available on November 15.Read | Permalink
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<title>Smartphone security threats likely to rise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since smartphones are small, highly portable, computers that let you make phone calls, it's not surprising they're now being targeted by malware. As smartphones become ever more common, the devices will be an even more popular target for malware.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>Universal phone charger approved</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body, has approved a universal charger for mobile phones. This is expected to cut down on the need for a new charger each time you get a new phone.Read | Permalink]]></description>
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<title>The Day the Droid Drops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Verizon's first smartphone to run on Google software goes on sale.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>iPhone App Translates Baby&#x27;s Crying</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Application claims to identify why a baby is crying within 10 seconds.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>EBay Settles Suit With Skype Founders</title>
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<description><![CDATA[EBay: Investors buying majority of Skype settle suit with Skype's founders.

  
  
  
  
  
  




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<title>Woman to Broadcast Birth on Internet </title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 23-year-old teacher plans to stream baby's delivery live online.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>&#x27;FarmVille&#x27; Fanatics Bet the Farm on Facebook</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Millions are tending to, and paying for, their virtual farms online.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  Verizon Ups Termination Fee</title>
<link>http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=2198b7f7ba3691674b773cf274de9d1c</link>
<description><![CDATA[The phone company will charge $350 to end a phone contract.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>Are Your Products Really &#x27;Green&#x27;?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some products are misleadingly labeled as eco-friendly.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>Take a Look at What Google Knows About You</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google unveils feature to help people see information collected about them.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>Terrible Teens: T. Rex Bones Tell of Fierce Fight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists say young Tyrannosaurus rex was attacked by another juvenile.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>Maps Mystery: Town Only Exists Online</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Argleton, supposedly in the U.K., appears on Google Maps but isn't real.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An online-advertising-exec-turned-venture-capitalist shares his insights.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>Elevator to Space: Teams Try to Make it Real</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Competition aims to make space elevators more than science fiction fantasy.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>AT&#x26;T Sues Verizon Over &#x27;Map for That&#x27; Ads</title>
<link>http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=39e7556c016f04a2659d74ccabff0c65</link>
<description><![CDATA[AT&T sues Verizon over ads it says are misleading and deceptive.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>NASA&#x27;s Ares 1-X Test: The View From Above</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of cameras watched NASA's Ares 1-X launch last week, the test of NASA's maybe-successor to the space shuttles, but none had a more complete view than one on board a small Cessna Skymaster, which the space agency had circling...

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>The Yes Men</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Take the example of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce vs. The Yes Men -- one of America's most powerful business lobbying organizations, which found itself the victim of a some liberal pranksters.

The Yes Men -- headed by Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, who have day jobs as college professors -- posed as spokespeople for the Chamber last week, holding a fake news conference to announce a new, more liberal stance on climate change policy. The Chamber didn't think it was funny.  It filed a civil complaint.  But last night the Yes Men posted a "Statement" in response: 'We've finally made it.'

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>The Missing Link -- Not</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Remember Ida?  She was the 47-million-year-old fossil, found in Germany, promoted in May as "The Link" -- a very early ancestor of humans.  Paleontologists now say that unless you're really into evolutionary biology, you can pretty much forget her.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Munich Zoo Welcomes Baby Orangutan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jolie, a baby orangutan, makes its first appearance at the Hellabrunn zoo.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Religious Sightings</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/iQ0tpXvBQ_I/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some say this photo of a melting glacier resembles motherly face in mourning. ]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Fat Skunk Says Bye-Bye to Bacon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Plump skunk named Mr. Bumble tries to lose one-third his weight.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Solar Eclipse </title>
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<title>PHOTOS:  At 7 Feet Long, Newfie Vies for Biggest Dog Title</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Owner wants Guiness Book of Records to recognize Boomer]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Marine Life From Pole to Pole</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/nMlg8yvF2S4/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists find astonishing richness in species in Arctic and Antarctic oceans.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Animals Battle Extinction </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Humpback whale wanders into New York harbor.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  World&#x27;s Volcanoes Erupt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Space station astronauts caught this view of Sarychev volcano erupting.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Comet Lulin</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/ahbC5CLaYlA/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[Backwards-flying, green comet makes its closest approach to Earth today. ]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Happy Birthday! Steve Jobs Turns 54</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A look back at Apple co-founder Jobs and the company he created.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Goldmine of New Species Discovered in Southeast Asia</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/9DK3vQF-8QU/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[More than 1,000 new species are discovered in the Mekong region.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Bush Creates Marine Monuments in Historic Effort</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pres. Bush protects a huge expanse of the Pacific, leaving a bright blue legacy.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Life in Bone-Chilling Barrow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Barrow, Alaska,  perched on  Artic Ocean, is threatened by climate change.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Best in Show: Gadgets Take Top Honors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Check out the hottest tech offerings from this year's Consumer Electronics Show.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Antarctica: A Call to Action</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Photographer shows effects of climate change on a fragile part of the world.

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<title>PHOTOS:  Under the Sea Census</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers spot hundreds of new species of underwater animals.

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<title>PHOTOS:  Destroyed: Galveston Residents Return Home</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike evacuees come to Galveston for the first time since Ike.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Wet Lake Found on Saturn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lake has liquid -- but enough to water ski?]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Sky Phenomenons</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Strange explosions may be the force behind dazzling phenomenon.  ]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  WORLD&#x27;S UGLIEST ANIMALS</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/O_9-wMqrfxg/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[Conservationists believe the ugly fish should be listed as endangered.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  World Heritage Sites</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/v92iLg8Z1rI/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[UNESCO has named new sites deemed worthy of preservation.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Mercury: Images of a Violent Planet</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/LIWXLH18SS8/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[Messenger spacecraft reveals never-before-seen color images of the Swift Planet.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Boeing Through the Years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Boeing to develop half-helicopter, half-blimp. ]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Breathtaking Bridges</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's longest cable-stayed bridge opens in China.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Stars Go Green for Cleaner Planet</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AbcNews_Technology/~3/W-rV8t75QqE/popup</link>
<description><![CDATA[Celebrities practice eco-friendly living by going green.  ]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Who&#x27;s Killing Mountain Gorillas?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The gorillas of Virunga National Park are in jeopardy in the Congo.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Freaky Frogs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Freakish frog unleashes hidden claws if threatened. ]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Best Gadgets of 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The competition was tight, but these 10 packed a punch.]]></description>
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<title>PHOTOS:  Geneva Gears Up for the Auto Show</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Struggling auto industry hopes to drum up interest in Geneva this week.]]></description>
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<title>WATCH:  Eatery Uses Skype to Interview Job Candidates</title>
<link>http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=abfcc6525a9b4dedd735ad31511c9a93</link>
<description><![CDATA[Arizona businessman says using the Internet cuts on cost and time.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  R.I. Police Give Out Online Tickets</title>
<link>http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=f33ae0403fb88108d909913aac5b6fbf</link>
<description><![CDATA[New computer program makes it easier and faster for cops to ticket drivers.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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<title>WATCH:  California May Ban Energy-Inefficient TVs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Golden State pushes for regulations on energy-hungry flat-screen televisions.

  
  
  
  
  
  


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It had taken the better part of a decade, but Reed Hastings was finally ready to unveil the device he thought would upend the entertainment industry. The gadget looked as unassuming as the original iPod&mdash;a sleek black box, about the size of a paperback novel, with a few jacks in back&mdash;and Hastings, CEO of Netflix, believed its impact would be just as massive. Called the Netflix Player, it would allow most of his company's regular DVD-by-mail subscribers to stream unlimited movies and TV shows from Netflix's library directly to their television&mdash;at no extra charge. 

The potential was enormous: Although Netflix initially could offer only about 10,000 titles, Hastings planned to one day deliver the entire recorded output of Hollywood, instantly and in high definition, to any screen, anywhere. Like many tech romantics, he had harbored visions of using the Internet to rout around cable companies and network programmers for years. Even back when he formed Netflix in 1997, Hastings predicted a day when he would deliver video over the Net rather than through the mail. (There was a reason he called the company Netflix and not, say, DVDs by Mail.) Now, in mid-December 2007, the launch of the player was just weeks away. Promotional ads were being shot, and internal beta testers were thrilled. 

But Hastings wasn't celebrating. Instead, he felt queasy. For weeks, he had tried to ignore the nagging doubts he had about the Netflix Player. Consumers' living rooms were already full of gadgets&mdash;from DVD players to set-top boxes. Was a dedicated Netflix device really the best way to bring about his video-on-demand revolution? So on a Friday morning, he asked the six members of his senior management team to meet him in the amphitheater in Netflix's Los Gatos offices, near San Jose. He leaned up against the stage and asked the unthinkable: Should he kill the player?

Three days later, at an all-company meeting in the same amphitheater, Hastings announced that there would be no Netflix Player. Instead, he would spin off the device, letting developer Anthony Wood take the technology and his 19-person team to a small company Wood had founded years earlier called Roku. But Netflix, which had already begun streaming movies to users' PCs, was hardly giving up on the idea of streaming them to televisions as well. Instead, the company would take a more stealthy&mdash;and potentially even more ambitious&mdash;approach. Rather than design its own product, it would embed its streaming-video service into existing devices: TVs, DVD players, game consoles, laptops, even smartphones. Netflix wouldn't be a hardware company; it would be a services firm. The crowd was stunned. In half an hour, Hastings had completely reinvented Netflix's strategy.

Today, nearly 3 million users access Netflix's instant streaming service, watching an estimated 5 million movies and TV shows every week on their PCs or living room sets. They get it through Roku's player, which was successfully launched in May 2008. (The Roku now also offers more than 45,000 movies and TV shows on demand through Amazon.com and, since August, live and archived Major League Baseball games.) They get it through their Xbox 360s&mdash;Microsoft added Netflix to its Xbox Live service last fall. They get it through LG and Samsung Blu-ray players. They get it through their TiVos and new flatscreen TVs. By the end of 2009, nearly 10 million Netflix-equipped gadgets will be hanging on walls and sitting in entertainment centers. And Hastings says this is just the beginning: "It's possible that within a few years, nearly all Internet-connected consumer electronics devices will include Netflix."

And the devices won't just be streaming remaindered basic-cable or art-house fare: Already, Netflix customers can call up just about any episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, The IT Crowd, or Lost whenever they like. They can watch recent releases like WALL-E and Pineapple Express. In other words, they can get unlimited access to the kinds of programming that previously required a cable subscription. (One visitor to the Netflix blog was particularly pleased to see that they could stream old episodes of Dora the Explorer: "We couldn't cancel cable until more kids' shows were available to watch instantly. Thanks for saving us another $400/year.") Netflix has taken the boldest step yet toward a world in which consumers, not programmers, determine not only what they watch but when, where, and how. The dream of routing around cable companies just may be in sight.

You'll never hear Hastings point that out, however. Unlike many in the tech world, he's a quiet disrupter, sabotaging business models silently and irretrievably. His first hit was to the DVD business. Netflix, which lets subscribers hold on to movies for as long as they like, was cheaper, easier, and more convenient for consumers than building film libraries; DVD sales have plummeted as Netflix has grown. And while his streaming service would seem to present a similar threat to cable companies, Hastings argues that their real challenge comes from the Internet in general, not just Netflix. "I mean, will people disconnect their cable over time?" He shrugs. "Potentially." Hastings may undersell the impact of his service, but some of his partners don't share his gift for diplomacy. "Our goal is to have everyone cancel their cable subscription," Roku's Wood says.

Whether Hastings cops to it or not, that day could be coming soon. That's why, for Hastings to fully accomplish his vision, he'll have to go up against some of the most powerful incumbents in media: the cable companies and content providers that have successfully stymied or co-opted all previous entrepreneurial efforts. So far, Hastings has avoided the wrath of the giants by building his Netflix service surreptitiously, slowly amassing his library of streaming content and giving viewers new ways to access it. And now, even if the cable and content companies do take him on, it may be too late. Hastings' Trojan horse&mdash;Netflix's software, embedded on myriad consumer devices&mdash;is already in place.

It is odd, in an era when the Internet seems able to worm its way into every part of life, that nearly all of us still watch television the old-fashioned way, piped over cable or beamed in by satellite and available only in bloated packages of channels programmed by network executives. Breaking out of this system requires more patience, money, and technical expertise than the average couch potato is willing or able to expend: Plunk an expensive streaming device or PC tower in the living room, wire up a connection to the TV, and install the Boxee app or program a BitTorrent RSS feed to get the content. Watching live shows in real time requires an even more elaborate work-around. Cable companies have made some feints toward giving subscribers more control over what they watch, but most of their efforts have been lackluster. Verizon's FiOS TV offers access to a few user-generated Web sites; Comcast and Time Warner Cable are rolling out services that let subscribers stream cable channels to their PCs.



The set-top box has proven to be a closed and well-guarded fortress against a world of clouds and openness. The cable and satellite industries, and their partners in Hollywood, work strenuously to keep it that way. It's easy to see why: Those little boxes bankroll their business. While the cable companies offer telephone and broadband, TV subscriptions still account for about 60 percent of their revenue. About a third of those fees get funneled to cable networks like Disney and Discovery, where they account for at least half of their revenue. Another chunk of subscription revenue goes to movie studios, which make more than $1 billion a year charging premium channels like HBO for the right to air their films. Even broadcast networks like ABC and NBC, which don't make any money from cable bills, would still prefer that the content they make available online not be viewed on a TV set, because they can't sell as many ads for their Web versions. Fox crams 18 commercials into every Sunday night airing of The Simpsons, earning 54 cents per viewer. But, according to research firm Sanford C. Bernstein, Fox airs just three commercials for the same show on Hulu&mdash;a site it co-owns with NBC Universal and Disney&mdash;earning a measly 18 cents per viewer.



	
		
		
			Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
			
			Photo: Robert Maxwell
		
	


The man who would overturn this decades-old system is an unlikely revolutionary. Hastings carries himself with a laconic modesty that contradicts an ambitious and restless mind. He has the deep tan of a dedicated snowboarder and a salt-and-pepper goatee that gives him a casual, approachable air. A quiet, hands-off leader, he sets the tone and objectives and lets his employees figure out how to execute them. His main directive is that everyone act like an adult: Netflix has no vacation policy (take as much as you need, when you need it), pay is flexible (stock or cash, your choice), and though firings are unusually common, severance checks are unusually generous. Hastings is comfortable creating his own rules for how to run a business; you don't see any management tomes in his office. In fact, he doesn't even have an office. The CEO prefers to stroll around, a ThinkPad in hand, pitching camp in an empty conference room or huddling in an engineer's cubicle to whiteboard some formula.

One recent morning, Hastings gathered a group of seven newly hired Netflixers in a sunny conference room on the roof of the company's headquarters. He does this once a month and, as always, kicks off the discussion by asking everyone to talk about the best movie they've seen in the past few weeks. He picks Jimmy Carter Man From Plains: "Five minutes in, I was hooked. The filmmaker did a good job making him not boring." The talk flows easily, but the goal is bigger than making everyone comfortable; he's reinforcing the idea that Netflix culture revolves around serving up content.

Since starting the company in 1997, Hastings' goal has always been the same: to deliver the right content in the fastest and most economical way. Obsessed with designing the perfect algorithm for helping viewers discover new movies, he has packed the place with mathematicians and engineers. They test everything, from the recommendations engine to the Web site's design. But if Hastings uses geeky number-crunching to help customers find their movies, his process of delivering them has been decidedly low tech: sending DVDs in red envelopes via the US Postal Service, which costs him roughly a quarter of his $1.4 billion in annual revenue.

Hastings has wanted to move beyond the silver discs for years, but his early attempts to deliver movies over the Net were slow and kludgy. In 2000, his engineers came up with a service that took 16 hours to download a two-hour movie. Hastings killed the project and disbanded the team. In 2003, a new group of engineers built a small, TV-connected Linux PC that could pull in movies. It cost $300 and took two hours to download a film. Again he wielded his ax. Hastings' decisions may have seemed coldhearted, but ultimately they were proven correct. Other competitors like Akimbo brought similar boxes to market&mdash;and failed.

It wasn't until 2006 that he tried again. By this time, the long-download problem had been solved by widespread adoption of broadband among consumers. Meanwhile, the spread of YouTube had gotten users used to the idea of streaming content rather than downloading and saving it. So Hastings put together another team of engineers, who developed a way to navigate unreliable home networks, allowing bitrates to shift midstream to maintain the best picture quality with the least amount of buffering.

But the technology was the easy part. Once Hastings decided not to release his own player, he encountered a different challenge: finding devices beyond Roku that would agree to host Netflix's streaming service. One of the first companies he turned to was Microsoft. Practically since releasing its Xbox in 2001, the company had dreamed of making the console into more than just a gaming machine for teenage boys. It offered more than 17,000 movies and TV shows over Xbox Live, but consumers mostly ignored them; apparently they still saw the console as a Halo delivery device. Providing unlimited access to Netflix's streaming library could change that. Microsoft executives were won over, but even they were surprised at the service's success: Within three months of the late 2008 launch, more than 1 million people had signed on, a huge percentage of whom had never touched an Xbox before. "There's a whole demographic&mdash;women&mdash;that we now pick up," says Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division. "They always thought of Xbox as a hardcore gaming machine. It belonged in the kid's bedroom or the den or some place where 'my husband cocooned when he wanted to play games.' Now its front and center in the house because everyone wants to stream a movie."

Since then, a full Netflix pandemic has broken out. Microsoft incorporated the service into its Windows Media Center software, meaning anyone with Vista can stream Netflix to their TV. Hastings inked deals with Sony and Samsung to put the service into Bravia TVs and Blu-ray players, respectively. The service started showing up in TVs made by Vizio, the largest seller of LCD televisions in the country. And Broadcom began baking the software into some of its flatscreen chips, making it easy for any TV maker to offer sets pre-loaded with Netflix. (As an extra incentive, Netflix pays manufacturers a bounty for any new subscribers that sign up via their products.) Investment bank Piper Jaffray estimates that 25 percent of Netflix's 2.4 million new subscribers this year will come through one of the streaming devices.

With the device makers on board, Hastings had an even tougher task. He needed more and better content. The interface could be the slickest around, but nobody would tune to Netflix's service if it only had back-catalog flicks and old TV shows. In other words, Netflix needed Hollywood.

Despite having run a movie-distribution company, Hastings was far from a Hollywood insider. Netflix simply bought DVDs like any other customer (albeit one with a major movie jones), occasionally striking special revenue-sharing deals for certain titles. The studios couldn't do much: A section of the US copyright law known as the First Sale Doctrine states that, as long as you own it, you can basically do whatever you want with a physical disc. As one studio exec says, "We don't have a choice. We were backed into the business model."

But with online streaming, Netflix has no such advantage. The First Sale Doctrine gives Netflix the right to do what it wants with the disc, not the movie. Netflix suddenly needed to craft more-complicated licensing deals. Push too hard or offer the wrong incentives and the studios could block Netflix from getting good content; acquiesce too easily and Hollywood would happily impose intolerable rules regulating when a movie could be shown, on what platform, and for what price. Part of Netflix's promise is that it offers, like cable and broadcast TV, all-you-can-eat content. If the company bargained away that feature, its service would become just another pay-per-view platform.



To woo Hollywood, Hastings turned to Ted Sarandos, who oversees a staff of 75 at Netflix's Beverly Hills beachhead. Sarandos, a former executive at a video distribution company, serves as translator between the geeks and the studio executives. "There's a lot about the entertainment industry that drives Silicon Valley insane," Sarandos says. "Just the way things work, the politics of it, the pace of it."

Sarandos asked his team to use their data-mining skills to help him find deals. While other video providers might ask studios for a sack full of sure things&mdash;new releases by big-name stars&mdash;Netflix's engineers could dig through their queue and review databases to find sleeper hits that its users actually wanted to watch but that studios might be willing to license for a pittance. Earlier this year, for instance, Netflix jumped at the chance to stream a French film called Tell No One. The movie pulled in just $6 million at the US box office, but enough subscribers added it to their rental queues that Netflix was able to calculate an estimate of how popular the film would be. Almost immediately after Netflix started streaming it, Tell No One became the fourth-most-watched piece of content. "We have the rental history and the queue insight that enables us to go after things that other people may not be really even hunting," Sarandos says.

Unearthing overlooked gems is great, but Netflix's service will never take off until it can offer up its share of blockbusters. To get those titles, the company needed some way to hack the so-called windowing system, the complicated schedule that governs which distributors can show what films and in what format. First, national and international theatrical distributors pay to show a film in their theaters. Next, there's the DVD and pay-per-view windows. Then there's the combined $1.7 billion a year that channels like HBO, Starz, and Showtime spend to secure the exclusive rights to show movies to subscribers. (Each studio usually signs with just one pay channel; all Warner Bros. movies appear only on HBO, while Sony's go to Starz.) After a few months, the pay-TV networks hand off their rights to broadcasters and ad-supported cable stations. A few years later, the premium channels get the films back, giving them exclusive rights to air them. The windowing system can keep films locked up for years; Disney's National Treasure: Book of Secrets came out in 2007 and is spoken for until 2016. Unless Hastings and Sarandos could find a way around the windowing system, it would be a challenge to show any major movies that had been released in the recent past.

Then they discovered a loophole: Why couldn't Starz sell Netflix the right to air its movies, just as it did with Comcast? Starz had the pay-TV rights to newer titles, exactly what Netflix lacked. Netflix had nearly 9 million (now almost 11 million) subscribers; if it were a cable company, it would be number three, bigger than Cablevision and Charter combined. "We looked at our contract rights and saw that they were an aggregator of content just like the other distributors," says Starz CEO Robert Clasen.


	
		
		
			Anthony Wood created the Roku media streamer while working at Netflix.
			
			Photo: Robert Maxwell
		
	


In October 2008, the two companies announced a deal that would add 2,500 fresh titles to Netflix's service. The studios were stunned. "This is the last thing you want," moaned one studio executive. "More eyeballs with no incremental revenue."

Hastings' window probably won't stay open forever. Unhappy studios or cable companies could easily renegotiate their contract with Starz to discourage it from working with Netflix. Still, the deal kicked off what Hastings hopes will be an unstoppable virtuous cycle. If Netflix can use the Starz offerings to sign up more subscribers, those subscription fees will generate more revenue. And with more revenue, Netflix can afford to pay more studios for rights to more films&mdash;which will draw in still more subscribers. And so on. Ultimately, if Netflix can grow and maintain a big enough library by working directly with the studios, it won't need the likes of Starz. Sure, it could potentially overturn the way Hollywood has done business, but as long as the studios are getting paid, why should they mind? "Think of all things in Hollywood as 'money talks,'" Hastings says. "If we can generate enough money for studios, we can get any content we want."

As Hastings chips away at Hollywood, he's also moving as fast as possible to cement Netflix's presence in the next generation of home entertainment devices. He knows he has limited time before the rest of the movie-distribution industry realizes what has hit it. "We had DVD by mail mostly to ourselves for five years before Blockbuster attacked," he says. "And then they gave us hell for five years. So, as great as things are going now, I'm like, remember, hell will return."

It could come from anywhere. Maybe one day the studios decide they don't need Netflix and start dealing directly with device manufacturers. Or they could just jack up the fees they charge Netflix. Amazon or Apple could emerge as a tough competitor. Cable behemoths could use their power to block Netflix's access to content, or they could try to put together their own Netflix-like services. ("There is no reason why this isn't something we can compete with," says Peter Stern, chief strategy officer of Time Warner Cable.)

There are a million different ways for Netflix to fail. But that has always been the case. Netflix should have failed already, taken down by Blockbuster or Wal-Mart, kneecapped by Hollywood, made irrelevant by BitTorrent or iTunes. Yet time and again, the company has not only survived but quietly thrived&mdash;on the strength of its unique algorithms and its relentless focus on getting customers content they didn't even know they wanted.

Speaking to his new hires, Hastings lets slip a rare glimpse of immodesty. "When people connect with a movie, it really makes them happy, and that's fundamentally what we're trying to do," he says. "Today you love one out of three movies that you watch. If we can raise that to two out of three, we can completely transform the market and increase human happiness." He makes it all sound so easy&mdash;never mind the powerful competitors. Ultimately, the key to film nirvana, whether delivered by DVD or streamed over the Internet, can be as simple as cracking an equation.

Senior writer Daniel Roth (daniel_roth@wired.com) wrote about reforming Wall Street in issue 17.03.



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