Verizon's Palm Pre 2 shown briefly in pulled eBay auction?

Still in disbelief that Big Red will one day be home to Palm's Pre 2? Can't say we blame you, but the evidence is certainly building. Just three months after taking a peek at inside information hinting at the smartphone's arrival on Verizon, along comes an eBay auction for a nondescript P102EWW -- known amongst the FCC hounds as a CDMA Palm Pre 2. After the folks at Pre Central started questioning the seller, the auction was mysteriously yanked, possibly due to worry from the sudden stroke of enlightenment. It's obviously impossible to know if the phone up for sale was indeed an early build meant for America's largest carrier, but the photos capped before the auction was pulled sure are hard to discredit. So, can we just get this out in the open now, or what?

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comiXology comic reader app comes to Android

ComiXology, the popular free comic book reader application that has been available for iOS, is now available for Android. If you have an Android 2.1 or higher device and you’re also a comics fan, fire up the app market and download it. This app works just like other eBook reading apps, only it displays graphic novels [...]

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Microsoft's Hotmail Active Views -- a vetted interactive email solution

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Email as we know it is a fairly static beast; you get text, and maybe some links and images, but that's about it. After all, allowing email to run code within your email client or browser could be mighty risky.

On the other hand, there's lots to be gained by "interactive email." Imagine receiving a form, which you can fill-in right from within an email message; or getting a search widget that you can use right from within the message to get the exact content you're interested in.

That's what Microsoft's new Active Views for Hotmail tries to do. Microsoft has taken a bunch of enterprise partners, starting with Orbitz and Monster.com, and allowed them to run code right from within your email. Since the partners (and email content) are carefully vetted by Microsoft, potential security concerns are kept to a minimum allowing users to enjoy the power of interactive forms and search widgets without the danger of hidden malicious code.

As the platform grows, more and more enterprises will be able to send interactive email. However, being a Hotmail-only prospect (at least for now), and since it's mainly useful for large advertisers, it is uncertain whether Interactive Views will gain much traction. Still, it's an interesting experiment. Just in case you're still at a loss as to what Active Views actually is, Microsoft's kindly made a video explaining the whole thing, which we've included after the break.

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Netflix scores big content expansion from Disney and ABC

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Netflix and Disney/ABC have agreed to a big, fat content expansion deal which will give the popular streaming service access to more shows and movies from ABC, Disney, and ABC Family. The Netflix presser highlights the addition of Ugly Betty, Brothers & Sisters, Scrubs, and -- wait for it -- Hannah Montana.

The newly-secured content will be on a 15-day delay -- likely to avoid stepping on the toes of Hulu and to keep people interested in ABC.com. But hey, for $7.99 a month for a streaming-only sub from Netflix I'm more than happy to use it for all of my "library viewing" needs, even if I am a little behind schedule.

Netflix scores big content expansion from Disney and ABC originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dropbox Hits 1.0, Adds Features

I'd like to extend hearty congratulations to the Dropbox team for doing what many web-based companies might avoid for years on end: putting out a 1.0 product. It's a bit arbitrary, of course — this useful and popular service has been running great for quite a long time now, and the "beta" tag has always seemed mysterious to me. But they've done what they felt needed to be done to justify dropping it, and the improvements are substantial. The most important new feature is probably the selective syncing: you can now select which computers sync with which folders, so you don't need to worry about your off-site HD footage backup saturating the shabby wi-fi at a coffee shop.

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