
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.