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Apple Wants iTunes To Replace Your Pay TV For $US30 A Month

3:57AM Matt Buchanan | Apple’s apparently pitching to US networks a subscription plan that would deliver all your TV shows through iTunes for $US30 a month, with the goal of launching it next year. More »
Entertainment

30 Rock’s Emphatically Branded Windows Computer Is Confusing

4:45AM Dan Nosowitz | On this week’s 30 Rock, we found out Jack’s (or Jack’s designer’s) choice of computer, and it’s a weird one: It’s a prop model of a computer that doesn’t exist, yet it’s forcefully branded with the Windows logo. More »
Entertainment

What A Paid Hulu Could Look Like

6:06AM John Herrman | AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp’s Chase Carey—that “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online”—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead. More »
Entertainment

Hulu’s Free Glory Days Are Officially Numbered

6:56AM John Herrman | Hulu, at the behest of its co-parent News Corp, is going to start charging for content in 2010. This is not so good. More »
Entertainment

Windows 7 Media Center Internet TV Delivers Zune Video Podcasts

4:12AM Sean Fallon | Just in case you missed it buried underneath the upgrade to Netflix Watch Instantly the other day, Microsoft has gone live with Internet TV on Windows 7 Media Center, offering content (of rather poor picture quality) from the following providers: More »
Entertainment

Family Guy Windows 7 Clip Isn’t All That Exciting

6:10AM Sean Fallon | Earlier this morning we heard that Family Guy is teaming up with Microsoft to promote Windows 7 on an upcoming show. If this clip is anything to go by, I wouldn’t get your hopes up for comedy. More »
Entertainment

Family Guy And Microsoft Team Up For Hackiest Ever Hackathon

6:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Hack-tacular comedy murderer Seth MacFarlane is teaming up with Microsoft to create a commercial-free, partly live-action special in which the Windows 7 brand-name will be integrated into the show’s content. Commercials might actually have improved this idea. More »
Peripherals

Buffy Skins On Apple Products, Dual-Fanboys Ascend To Nirvana

1:20AM Mark Wilson | Dark Horse Comics (Buffy, Hellboy) and GelaSkins (those dudes who make reusable sticky skins for iPhones, MacBooks, etc.) have conceived and birthed a line of products to which all geeks will find themselves un-immune. More »
Random Stuff

iPhone’s Cheesy CSI Cameo Requires Serious Suspension Of Disbelief

12:00AM Danny Allen | Sorry AT&T. I know CSI never lets plausibility get in the way of a good story, but watching them crawl through an underground tunnel and exclaim the iPhone has “outstanding reception”, made last night’s episode harder to believe than usual. More »
Announcements

Win! One Of Five Copies Of Fringe Season 1 On Blu-ray

10:30AM Nick Broughall | JJ Abrams latest geek-friendly TV show, Fringe has just been released on Blu-ray. We’ve got five copies of the hit show to give away this week. More »