Netflix dons its square pants with 'Just for Kids' section trial

Worried that Netflix isn't doing enough to appeal to the under-10 set? Good news, the movie rental giant has begun testing a "Just for Kids" section, rolling out the feature to a limited number of subscribers. Eligible users will find a tab just to the right of the Watch Instantly button. At the top of the new page is a series of familiar children's characters, including the likes of Spongebob, Popeye, and, yep, the Jonas Brothers. Each character has its own landing page with easily accessible content. We reached out to Netflix for more information on the matter, and the company would only confirm that the feature is still in testing mode. Given the amount of nostalgia currently available, we suspect that kids of all ages will be pitching in with the trial.

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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo doesn't believe in electric cars, Santa Claus (video)

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo doesn't believe in electric cars, ghosts (video)
As saucy as some of them may be, today's electric car is definitely a novelty. Still, it's not too hard to imagine a future where the majority of autos run on electrons -- whether they're pushed from batteries or hydrogen fuel cells. Not everybody's down with that idea, and one of those EV detractors is the incredibly suave Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo. We recently had a chance to chat briefly with the man who said -- in no unequivocal terms -- that there is no electric Ferrari coming:

You will never see a Ferrari electric because I don't believe in electric cars, because I don't think they represent an important step forward for pollution or CO2 or the environment. But, we are working very, very hard on the hybrid Ferrari. This should be the future, and I hope in a couple of years you can see it.

So what's next for the brand of the prancing horse? A hybrid, of course, which we're guessing will be more Porsche 918 than Toyota Prius. Still, ruling out EVs in the future seems perhaps a bit... restricting, but keep in mind Luca did say this was only his policy.

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Game Review ? Dead Space HD

One of the more popular game genres in the market today is survival horror. For those who have become a fan of the Dead Space series in the console or PC, much is expected in this release of Dead Space HD for the iPad. You play the role of an engineer tasked to explore the [...]

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How a Dying Woman Watched Her Daughter's Wedding via Skype [Image Cache]

Skype's props up tenuous long distance relationships, allows chats with family and pals in other countries, and supports the occasional fun video chat. But on this one day, it let a mother watch her daughter's wedding dance before she died. More »


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Looking back at a year of Android Malware

Wow, has it really been a year a year since we first witnessed the arrival of SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a? It seems like only yesterday when everyone was first scrambling to describe the text message manipulating bit of Android malware. We've come along way and seen plenty of malicious bits of software since August 2010. Remember the porn-bundled SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.b trojan from October? Or how about the bible-packing Android.Smspacem? Relive all of the handset hijacking memories in the source link below.

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Google Steps Up to Defend Android Developers From Patent Lawsuit

Google has intervened in an ongoing intellectual property dispute between smartphone application developers and a patent-holding firm, Wired.com has learned, marking the Mountain View company’s first public move to defend Android coders from a patent troll lawsuit that’s cast a pall on the community. The company says it filed a request with the United States Patent [...]

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Tell the Time with this Ring and Sunlight

Sundials aren’t just for your garden, they can be jewelry too. The Sun Silver Ring is made of silver (surprise) and has a small hole that when held up to the sun, shines a beam on the time of day which is etched inside the band. I’m not sure how easy it is to actually [...]

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MayBe The ipad 2 Plus

Don’t Overlook that the unique iPad tablet continues to be  little more than a 12  months old and also the Apple iPad tablet 2 is merely a few months old, a brand  new iPad is without a doubt in route. Having a minor redesign of the iPad tablet  2, as well as brand new components, the ?iPad [...]

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Paper Pushers Turn to Tablets

Two major publishers -- the Tribune Co. and the Philadelphia Media Network, or PMN -- plan to offer long-term subscribers free or heavily subsidized tablet readers. The Tribune is reportedly developing an Android tablet. PMN plans to offer deeply discounted Android tablets together with applications developed in-house. Whether or not they can pull off these programs is open to question.

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