If desktop computers and terminals proliferate in hotel rooms and other locales, Dulaney thinks users could more easily carry personal data files and applications around in tiny memory cards that just plug into any available desktop system.

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But BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield thinks that if House Of Cards is a success, Netflix could also start demanding a fee from the broadband suppliers that plug their fat pipes into our homes and let us stream House Of Cards in the first place.

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