Cody Taylor

Time Warner Cable has increased all of its Internet data caps, added some new ones, and generously offered to limit overage charges to /month. Perhaps that’s because the company’s broadband operations are actually earning more cash and have lower expenses than they did in 2007, making TWC’s stated rationale for the caps less tenable.

unr3a1 writes to tell us that Time Warner Cable has responded to the massive criticism of its new plan to cap user bandwidth with a new pricing model. Users will be given a grace period in which to assess their pricing tier. The “overages” will be noted on their bill, allowing them to change either their billing plan or their usage patterns. “On top of a 5, 10, 20, and 40-gigabyte (GB) caps, the company said this week that it would offer an additional 100GB tier for heavy users. Prices (so far) would range from .95 to .00 a month, with users charged an extra dollar for every GB more they download, although that charge is also capped at . An ‘unlimited’ bandwidth plan, therefore, tops out at 0.”

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waderoush writes “At the CHI 2009 conference, which wrapped up yesterday in Boston, Microsoft researchers showed off two radical prototypes that push the boundaries of user interfaces. One was a ‘pseudo-transparent’ iPhone-like device called nanoTouch, which has a trackpad on the back rather than a traditional touch screen and gives visual feedback in the form of a simulated image of the user’s finger (the effect is like looking straight through the device). The other was a folding dual-screen device called Codex that can switch automatically between landscape, portrait, collaborative, or competitive modes depending on its ‘posture’ or orientation. If Microsoft doesn’t build such devices itself, ‘somebody else will, so it’s really important to understand what the issues are,’ said researcher Ken Hinckley.”

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