According to Nintendo, Wii users will soon be able to stream their favorite content from Netflix. This new service, launching in Spring 2010, will be available to normal Netflix subsribers with a broadband internet connection. Just like Sony’s PlayStation 3Wii’s streaming service will be disc based. Netflix’s site has details on how to reserve a disc.
A roundup of all the interesting news from CES on Wednesday January 6th, 2010. Updated Hourly.
According to reports from The New York Times and MacRumors, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, will introduce a new tablet device during his CES keynote in Las Vegas this evening.
On Wednesday, Mr. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, will unveil a novel take on a slate-type computer during his evening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to people familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The slate will be made by Hewlett-Packard and possibly available by mid-year, these people said.
This may be a preemptive strike by Microsoft and HP given the rumors swirling about the Apple iSlate (rumored name) and its announcement on January 27th (date not confirmed by Apple).
Source: MacRumors
Today Google announced the long rumored “Google Phone” which will actually be known as the Google Nexus One. The Nexus One will be available in two varieties, an unlocked unsubsidized model that will be sold directly by Google for $529.00 and a subsidized model available on the T-Mobile network for $179.00 (with a 2 year contract). The Nexus One will also be available on Verizon and Vodafone later this spring. Lets look at a run down of the Nexus One’s features:
You can preview and order the Google Nexus One at google.com/phone and it ships TODAY.
3 Billion downloads in 18 months. 350 apps downloaded per second. Impressive.
CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that more than three billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by iPhone® and iPod touch® users worldwide.
“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months-this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
Source: Gizmodo
Leo Laporte and the crew over at TWiT.tv will be covering CES live this year. You can view daily episodes at live.twit.tv, YouTube.com/twit or subscribe to the iTunes feed. Check our their special coverage at live.twit.tv starting January 6th 2010.
Google celebrated Sir Issac Newton’s 367th birthday with an animated doodle showing that the apple truly does not fall far from the tree.
According to Rick Whiting of ChannelWeb, Google Chrome has eclipsed Apple’s Safari browser to become the world’s third most popular Web browser. Chrome, which has been around just a little more than one year, accounted for 4.63 percent of browser usage in December, compared to Apple Safari usage of only 4.46 percent last month. Recently Google launched extensions for Chrome adding to the popular of the speedy browser.
