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Google to introduce paid TV downloads
Ars
Technica is reporting that tomorrow Google will be
announcing a new video service that will "allow users to buy video content for pre-determined prices,"
and they're also planning to announce partnerships with CBS and the NBA. Ars has lots of juicy speculation, including
whether they'll be offering downloads or only streaming video, if they'll use Flash video as Google Video currently
does, and if this means we'll finally see the long-rumored Google Wallet. Google also plans to announce Google Pack, a
software bundle which, says Ars, will include the obvious Google software like Desktop Search, Picasa, Google Earth,
Google Talk, and more, but also some third party tools including "Google-tweaked" versions of Firefox,
Acrobat Reader, Symantec anti-virus software, the malware remover Ad-Aware, multi-network IM client Trillian, and
RealPlayer. I agree with Ars: Those last two choices are very curious indeed.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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