Loaded: Atila the phone Video

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>> Blockbuster launches their download store. Motorola takes on the iPhone and fewer people are subscribing to broadband these days. It's Tuesday, August 12. I'm Natali Del Conte and it's time to get Loaded. Executives at Blockbuster must be watching Loaded. Last week, we said that they should get their digital download store up and running already. Well, this week it is. The store is in beta testing, so if you go to blockbuster.com/download, you'll see if you are one of few that the company is letting in in. Rent does costs between 99 cents and about 4 dollars just like on iTunes and you can keep them for 24 hours from the time you begin viewing them also just like iTunes. Here's one draw back though, the download service only works with Windows PCs. Hopefully, that's just a beta feature. And a touchscreen 3G phone is rumored to be on its way from Motorola. The phone has code name Atila for now but that could change. The Boy Genius Report published some lead specs for the phone and it looks to be without a keyboard and run Windows Mobile. I like how Motorola's code names for their phones are historical conquerors like Alexander, Attila, and Ghengis. It's as if they are charging in the battle to defeat the iPhone. Speaking of charging out the iPhone, the LG Voyager is getting another iPhone ESK feature visual voicemail. Verizon costumers who have a Voyager can opt for visual voicemail for 299 per month per line plus airtime and messaging fees. If you're not familiar with these features, the way that your voicemail is presented to you is a list which you can choose to listen to out of sequence. Verizon costumers can store up to 40 messages for 40 days. For now this is only available for the Voyager but Verizon says that additional phones will get this capability in the coming months. The online magazine salon.com is letting members of its community tip a few box to their favorite blogger. If you find a particular story, image, or movie to your liking, you're free to leave fortuity to the author or photographer. A PayPal-type system called Revolutions Money Exchange will allow only those registered for an account to give and receive money, and members who do register will be given a complementary 10 dollars to distribute as they see fit. The thing is, a blog is a commodity we expect to be free. It's odd to see newspapers make their content free while blogs test out pay for articles? I don't think this will go very far but it's worth a try. Tiffany as the highland jeweler is not done with eBay after a judge rule that eBay was not responsible for filtering out counterfeit items from their auctions, Tiffany has decided to appeal the ruling. A Tiffany's spokesperson said in the statement, "Unfortunately, the trial court incorrectly held that trademark holders and not eBay are responsible for policing the eBay site. The effect of this is that eBay can continue to profit at the expense of consumers and trademark holders." Tiffany has been going after eBay for four years now. It must kill them that Louis Vuitton was able to win a lawsuit for the same thing in under a year. The rate of a broadband adoption slowed somewhat in the second quarter of this year. A study published by Leichtman Research Group shows that the number of new broadband subscribes fell to the lowest level in the last 7 years which is when they started to track these numbers. In Q2, 887,000 new people signed up for high-speed internet. I think we can attribute this to a number of things. One, the economy is bad and broadband is expensive. Two, the urban market is already highly saturated with broadband costumers. So, growth potential there will inevitably slow. Three, rural areas are still waiting for broadband companies to build up their infrastructure, and four, people like me are waiting for files. If mine comes tomorrow and I may never leave my house again. Before I signed out today, I wanted to read some viewer e-mail about the question I post yesterday "will shrink-warped software slink away? Brian wrote in, he said, "I don't think shrink-warped software will ever be able to completely vanish. Operating systems will almost always need to be available on a disk, especially for people who want to build a new system. Now that operating systems are beginning to be required to be stored on DVDs, who wants to wait around while those download?" That's a good point which hadn't occurred to me, although, certainly we can't still expect shrink-warped software to decline proportionally to our needs. Eric says, "At some point I think physical software from store shelves will end. But the real question is when. It's really no problem for me to download a program and then later burn it to a CD or DVD." And finally I don't have another e-mail, but we've got another Loaded viewer birthday. This particular viewer likes to go unnamed usually, so I'll just wish him a very happy and healthy 34th birthday from my self and the Loaded group. Those are your headlines for today, but I will be back tomorrow with more. Thank you for watching. I'm Natali Del Conte with CNETTV, and you've just been Loaded. [ Music ]