Today it was announced that Netflix had made a deal with the Weinstein Company to stream Academy Award favorite "The Artist" & other offerings before those films go on pay per view.
This is a major deal. It is meant to compete with cable, & especially with Comcast, which has announced it's own streaming service. Comcast's service will cost $5 as opposed to Netflix's $8 for unlimited. However all the news items fail to point out that Netflix has a lower priced plan. My plan is $5 a month for 2 DVD's plus 2 hours of streaming. Now that's not much, but it works for me, & should for busy people.
Then there's Mozilla. They have announced plans to possibly create their own phone. One that won't be tied to a particular OS (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7). The reason is that it will use web apps. So you would be using the browser for these things. I don't think even they know exactly what it is going to be. There isn't that much info yet. But I'm sure that Mozilla is feeling the heat from Google. Chrome has been increasing market share, & maybe this is a way to fight back. Check back in 2 years.
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