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suraj.sun writes “AT&T said Tuesday that any Net neutrality plan restricting its ability to engage in “paid prioritization” of network traffic would be harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet.”

Source: AT&T Says Net Rules Must Allow ‘Paid Prioritization’

An anonymous reader writes “The space age has filled Earth’s orbit with all manner of space junk, from spent rocket stages to frozen bags of astronaut urine, and the problem keeps getting worse. NASA’s orbital debris experts estimate that there are currently about 19,000 pieces of space junk that are larger than 10 centimeters, and about 500,000 slightly smaller objects. Researchers and space companies are plotting ways to clean up the mess, and a new photo gallery from Discover Magazine highlights some of the proposals. They range from the cool & doable, like equipping every satellite with a high-tech kite tail for deployment once the satellite is defunct, to the cool & unlikely, like lasers in space.”

Source: 9 Ideas For Coping With Space Junk

Trailrunner7 writes with this from ThreatPost: “Researchers have made a huge dent in the Pushdo botnet, virtually crippling the network, by working with hosting providers to take down about two thirds of the command-and-control servers involved in the botnet. Pushdo for years has been one of the major producers of spam and other malicious activity, and researchers have been monitoring the botnet and looking for ways to do some damage to it since at least 2007. Now, researchers at Last Line of Defense, a security intelligence firm, have made some serious progress in crushing the botnet’s spam operations. After doing an analysis of Pushdo’s command-and-control infrastructure, the researchers identified about 30 servers that were serving as C&C machines for the botnet. Working with the hosting providers who maintained the servers in question, the LLOD researchers were able to get 20 of the C&C servers taken offline, the company said.”

Source: Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet

TheRealPacmanJones writes “Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls ‘the most secure city in the world.’ In a partnership with Leon, one of the largest cities in Mexico with a population of more than a million, GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. The scanners will help revolutionize law enforcement not to mention marketing.”

Source: Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico

tekgoblin writes “Christopher Sun of Hong Kong is directing a new porn movie that will actually be in 3-D. The movie is being called 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy and will be the first 3-D IMAX porn movie. From the article: ‘First out of the gates, the soft porn Hong Kong film comes as the stricken industry, hit hard by free Internet porn in recent years, turns to 3-D as a potential money-spinner, following on from the success of Hollywood blockbusters such as James Cameron’s Avatar.’”

Source: First 3-D IMAX Porn Movie Made In Hong Kong

tekgoblin writes “Christopher Sun of Hong Kong is directing a new porn movie that will actually be in 3-D. The movie is being called 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy and will be the first 3-D IMAX porn movie. From the article: ‘First out of the gates, the soft porn Hong Kong film comes as the stricken industry, hit hard by free Internet porn in recent years, turns to 3-D as a potential money-spinner, following on from the success of Hollywood blockbusters such as James Cameron’s Avatar.’”

Source: First 3-D Porn Movie Made In Hong Kong

In the past few quarters, AT&T has seen a significant chunk of its revenues come from the sale of iPhones in the US. 

Though the company's CEO Ralph de la Vega has insisted that an end to iPhone exclusivity is not a big deal and that the company would continue to grow even if it loses its exclusive partnership with Apple, industry observers have pointed out that the carrier indeed has a lot to lose.

Source: Survey: 34% Of AT&T’s iPhone Customers Waiting For Another iPhone Carrier To Upgrade

If you’ve subscribed to AT&T’s U-verse television service then you should download their updated and renamed iPhone app – U-verse Mobile.

The iPhone app allows users to not only schedule DVR recordings remotely but also to download select TV content for viewing on their iOS devices.

We had heard rumors quite sometime back that AT&T was planning to integrate U-verse service with the iPhone. 

Source: AT&T U-verse Mobile App Allows Users To Record And Watch Select TV Shows On The iPhone

suraj.sun sends in word that the country’s largest bookstore chain, Barnes and Noble, will put itself up for sale. “The news surprised analysts and alarmed publishers, who have watched as the book business has increasingly shifted to online retailers and e-book sales, leaving both chains and independent sellers struggling. … For years, Barnes & Noble has been battered by large shifts in the publishing industry and the retail environment. Book sales have moved toward big-box stores like Costco, Wal-Mart and Target, and away from mall-based stores like B. Dalton, which Barnes & Noble acquired in the late 1980s. ‘There’s been a long series of pressures,’ said David Schick, managing director at Stifel Nicolaus in Baltimore. ‘The market has not been kind to bookstores, and it’s for new reasons like competition with Apple and Amazon, and it’s for old reasons, like what we believe has been a decline in reading for the last 20 years. Americans have devoted less of what we call media time to books.’”

Source: Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play

snydeq writes “AT&T says it won’t interfere with a highly anticipated talk on intercepting cell phone calls at the Black Hat conference this week. Hacker Chris Paget last week said that he plans to demonstrate on Saturday how to set up what’s essentially a fake cell tower that allows him listen in on nearby mobile calls. But Tuesday, he wrote on his blog that he had ‘heard that AT&T may be considering suing me to stop my talk.’ AT&T, however, has insisted it has no plans to interfere with the talk.”

Source: AT&T Won’t Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo