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Fly Clear & Managing Your Digital Identity

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Over the years I’ve been a pretty regular, if not “frequent”, traveler - business, pleasure, and blog. (I always fly coach but usually “upgrade” to exit row seating for a fee - which I expect to be fully refunded in the event I’m called upon to evacuate the plane.) When I learned of the Clear card program, enabling one to zip through airport security as pre-screened flier, I started weighing the options.

Hulu Premium - Free Online TV May Not Last

We’re getting back to that old saying, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” with news of Hulu’s possible plans to charge for at least some content.  So one of the biggest advantages (and reasons for putting up with poorer video quality than broadcast/cable) just might be going away. According to an article in dailyfinance.com, News Corp’s chief digital officer:

envisions a future where at least some of the TV shows and movies on Hulu, the premium video site co-owned by News Corp., NBC Universal and Disney, are available only to subscribers.

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Sony E3 2009 Press Conference Summary
The press conference and list of PS3 exclusives shown were better than expected. I’d put it on par with the Microsoft press conference. I was impressed with Sony’s marrying of a motion controller with high-end graphics. Though, as with Microsoft’s Natal, they are still only in the prototype stage.

Sling.com Enables OS X Slingbox Streaming

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