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Hulu will not charge in 2010

Posted on by RustyG

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There was a rumor floating around this past week that Hulu was going to start charging next year, and I even talked about it on my weekly youtube broadcast. As of today, there was a source at Entertainment Weekly that said that rumor is false and we should not be worried. This is a huge sigh of relief, because I don’t pay for cable specifically for this reason. I use Hulu Desktop as a very good on-demand box. I can even use my media center remote that came with my laptop so I don’t have to leave the couch to watch good television.

Who’s to say that we won’t soon to pay for it, the EW article references that we used to use Napster for free, and now we pay legally for iTunes. We used to get television over the air for free, but cable came along and we all signed up.

Read the full article over at EW.com

via [Digg]

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google announces free turn-by-turn navigation

Posted on by RustyG

So what happens when the giant Google releases a turn by turn navigation app? I don’t know is the answer, but I have a basis. Google has announced their android based app that looks to be very promising. What’s even better is the satellite/street view that they can overlay on top of the navigation, so you can see exactly what you are supposed to be looking at while you are driving. Now this is bad for those of you who don’t have a dash mounted phone or navigation unit, as it will definitely cause you to look downward at the screen:

via [Engadget] and [Digg]

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Barnes and Noble takes on Amazon

Posted on by RustyG

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Barnes and Noble now has their own rendition of an e-book reader. What’s it called, “Nook”. Theirs comes after their recently release of free wifi for all. Their largest competition? Amazon. Sony has some out there, but doesn’t seem as popular. Though I have been to many different retailers, and the Sony works great. Of course it supports all the popular formats already out there, like for the iPhone/iTouch, Blackberry, PCs and Macs. Is it worth it? We don’t know just yet, as we don’t have a price, but I figure it will directly compete with the price of the Amazon Kindle.(Update: $249 and now taking pre-orders) You can see more over at Engadget, but here is a video of it directly from that post:

via [Engadget] [Digg] [Wall Street Journal]

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Micro$oft’s Courier sure looks promising

Posted on by RustyG

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so if you haven’t seen this thing, I recommend  going straight to the video and skip all the reading. This thing looks like it is going to take on the tablet market and kill all who stands in it’s way. This looks to kill the Kindle, the Sony whatever and any others that are coming to market anytime soon. Watching the video, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. It basically puts a tablet in a book style and then adds a touch screen interface and makes you feel like you are literally opening a book and reading it, only BETTER! I watched the guy flip a page, and it looked like a real book changing pages as he turned it across the two screens! Even when you use the stylus, it looked like he was taking notes on a real notepad!!! Just watch the video and so some research for this thing in the near future!

Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

via [Digg] which got it from [Mashable] which got it from [Gizmodo]

{btw, I still don’t like Gizmodo, but they seemed to be the first one on this}