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New TV tech will watch you

A new Microsoft patent has been designed to watch the watchers — and charge a licence fee based on how many people it sees. The Hal 9000. Or, as Microsoft calls it, “Kinect”. (Credit: Warner Bros) Over at our sister site GameSpot, Dan Chiappini has a very detailed story looking at a newly found patent application from Microsoft. The “Content …

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Netflix is one third of all US net traffic

Netflix has firmly beat BitTorrent in North America — but it’s a different story in the Asia-Pacific region. Netflix: Americans love it. (Credit: Netflix) While movie studios and TV providers still continue to cry “pirate”, data from the US is proving that legal movie-streaming services can still trump illegal downloads. Sandvine’s most recent Global Internet Phenomena Report has the video-on-demand …

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