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Watch Netflix safely in the office

GeneralEdward Kiledjian

A new Chrome extension (called Netflix Hangouts) will make your Netflix stream look like a 4 person video conference by adding 3 additional video boxes onscreen. The Netflix show is housed in the bottom right hand box. You engage the extension by clicking on it and you stop it by clicking on it again (or closing the Netflix tab).

This will not trick network based traffic inspection devices. It just makes the screen look more business like. If your company employs network base traffic analysis, you may want to VPN out first.

Rogers to launch Netflix competitor for Canadians

technologyEdward Kiledjian
CC Image Flickr User AustinEvan

CC Image Flickr User AustinEvan

Cartt.ca is reporting that Rogers is spending more than $100M to design and launch a Canadian Netflix competitor. The report states that Rogers has already signed licensing agreements with Disney/ABC, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, plus a handful of Canadian content owners such as Bell Media and Shaw.

The always trustworthy (said sarcastically) anonymous source said " They are buying up all the rights, all the windows, to everything in order to keep them out of the hands of Netflix in Canada. What they also say they want to do is target all the twentysomethings who don’t have cable with this – and then hopefully pull them into the system."

I can easily believe this because Netflix's Canadian catalog sucks. It has old movies that no one really wants to watch.

The service may be called Showmi and could launch as early as this April. The source claims the pricing model will be like Hulu where a single monthly fee allows streaming to unlimited TVs, computers, tablets, consoles and smart-devices. 

Cartt.ca