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If your iTunes account is linked to your PayPal account, you had better check things out today. A bunch of accounts all around the country linked to PayPal have been hacked with as much as thousands of dollars in charges made.
A new rumor has surfaced again focusing on the long rumored Verizon iPhone. This rumor says that the kinks are still being worked out for the largest network around to get the iPhone and that the main thing is trying to decide if 2011 or 2012 is the goal for launch.
Verizon today announced they’re working on an app that would allow FiOS subscribers to watch the same linear TV shows on their iPad as they do on their current set top boxes. What does that mean?
At first, subscribers with an iPad will only be able to watch linear programming within their own home, which allows Verizon to authenticate and make certain that the users have access to whatever content they’ve paid for. Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir said in a press briefing that the iPad app takes advantage of Verizon’s architecture, which he characterized as “cloud TV.” The experience is similar to what’s available today on FiOS set-top boxes, and takes advantage of the same software that Verizon uses for its set-tops. As such, Verizon says it should already have rights to stream the content, as it’s just another screen in the home.
In other words, it would be just like a regular TV, not video on demand or a la carte service. But it would be a TV you could carry around with you from room to room. Verizon is currently making sure their “content partners” are comfortable with the idea though. You know, those crazy backward thinking cable types can get mighty scared when it comes to their moving pictures showing up on an iPad… Sigh.
Also in the works is a video on demand service where content could be rented by the user and watched on any video capable device they own:
Under the new VOD platform, videos can be purchased through their set-top box or through Verizon.com and then be downloaded and watched on up to five different PCs and mobile devices.
We’ll believe it when we — hopefully very soon — see it. Any of you interested?
[NewTeeVee via @meinck]
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