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The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with Hollywood studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010. If it happens, YouTube will transform into a major player in streaming rental movies. More »

For all the stupid pet tricks, first-person confessionals, and clips from Conan O’Brien’s formative years that form YouTube’s content, the one territory it doesn’t really venture is pay-per-view à la Apple, Amazon, and others. Well, it’ll be a Brave New World for the service — and parent company Google — if this Financial Times report [...]

Product: Wi-Fi Scale Manufacturer: WithingsWired Rating: 8Beyond calorie counting, regular exercise or counter-intuitive strategies like the “Cookie Diet,” one of the easiest ways to boost your chances of losing and maintaining weight is … a scale (duh). Self-tracking can be tedious, though, especially if you’re keeping tabs on a number of metrics. Hence, automation is [...]

Product: Droid 2 Smartphone Manufacturer: MotorolaWired Rating: 7If anything, the makeover from Droid to Droid 2 is more of a brow wax than a face lift, which judging by the success of the original version, and the ghastly results of many cosmetic surgery fiascoes, is probably a good thing. No one ever said that …

Another contender has entered the fray in the great tablet wars of 2010. It’s the $500 Olive Telecom OlivePad, a seven-inch, 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreened device. Announced back in July, Indian television show TechGuru snagged one for review a few weeks back where they, predictably, squared it off against an iPad. The Android 2.1 [...]

Remember that new licensing service for third-party developers that Google started advertising last month? A new exposé on Android Police claims that it’s actually pretty easy to get around — easy enough so that the crack could probably be packaged into some sort of automated script that breaks protected apps en masse for distribution through [...]

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