AT&T’s CruiseCast service has emerged out of beta and will now be available to the general public. The service weighs in at $1,299 for the requisite hardware and $28 a month for service, and will allow access to 33 channels of TV, including weather, news, sports, and kid-centric offerings, along with 19 satellite music stations.
[via Engadget]

I got hit with this message yesterday and it made me wonder how I opted in to American Idol spam. Maybe I had voted for one of the David’s last season. But I didn’t think I had.
It turns out that AT&T sent 75 million of these messages to its entire network. New York Times has the story here.