AP – Netflix is preparing for the day when getting DVDs by mail is as old-fashioned as going to the video store. It’s hoping to wean people from DVDs with a cheap plan that offers movies and old TV episodes exclusively through online streaming. It will cost $8 per month, matching a recent price cut by rival Hulu.
AP – THE NEW PLAN: Netflix is introducing a U.S. subscription plan for $8 per month that doesn’t include any mailed DVDs, just movies and TV shows streamed over the Internet.
NewsFactor – In a move to compete against Hulu Plus, Netflix has launched a streaming-only subscription plan in the United States with a $7.99 price tag. Netflix reports more of its members are watching content streamed online than on mailed discs.
PC World – Verizon is adding a new tier of service to its FiOS fiber broadband service, offering 150M bps (bits per second) downstream and 35M bps upstream for US$194.99 per month.
AP – Netflix introduced a new plan Monday that, for the first time, relies solely on video streamed over the Internet rather than the DVDs that it has mailed to customers since the company was founded more than a decade ago.
AP – A man who was convicted and fined for tweeting that he planned to blow up an airport will take his case to Britain’s High Court in a test of the limits of free speech on the Internet, his lawyers said Monday
PC World – Verizon is tripling the top speed of its FiOS broadband to 150Mbps. The move makes Verizon FiOS the fastest broadband service available, and opens up new possibilities for small and medium businesses that rely on consumer-grade broadband connections.
Mashable – Add Viacom properties to the ever-growing list of television websites blocked on Google TV.
AP – Verizon Communications Inc. is zooming past cable-company competitors by tripling the top download speed of its FiOS Internet service to 150 megabits per second, or 50 times faster than a typical DSL line.
Reuters – An Iranian Internet site for devotees of Nazi Germany has been allowed to reopen after being blocked briefly by government censors, a news website reported, raising questions about the official attitude to anti-Semitism.