Location Based Services: Time for a Privacy Check-In (ACLU Bog of Rights)

... comparison of six popular social location-based services (Foursquare, Facebook Places, Yelp, Gowalla, Twitter and Loopt). Location-based services can collect information about not only where we go but who we know, what we do, and who we are. If that information falls into the wrong hands, the consequences can range from embarrassing to chilling to downright dangerous. Robberies have...

Source : ACLU Bog of Rights

Explore : Cell Phone, Geolocation, GPS, Phone, Social Network

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Netflix Paying More Than $1 Billion For Streaming Rights (NFLX)

The number of users streaming video content from Netflix may be growing like crazy, but the company's latest earnings filing on Monday (PDF here) shows that the transition from discs to bits won't be cheap.

Acquisition of streaming content was the number-one drain on cash flow during the quarter, costing more than $115 million. By way of comparison, the company only spent about $30 million on acquisition of DVD discs. Netflix also revealed that it now owes $1.2 billion in commitments for streaming content deals--that's up from $115 million at the end of 2009.

As Peter Kafka reports at Media Memo, a lot of the expense probably comes from the company's deal with the Epix Pay TV channel, which was signed in August. That deal cost an estimated $1 billion, and gave Netflix rights to films from Epix partners Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM. Netflix could also end up on the hook for more than $2 billion when it has to renew its deal with Starz, which gives the company streaming rights to films from Disney and Sony.

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• Netflix's Inventory Of Streaming Content Isn't Growing Fast Enough

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