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If you wanted to watch movies or TV shows on your phone, but had an Android device, until recently you were mostly out of luck. Not too long ago, Netflix , the popular paid video streaming service, announced their Android version of their mobile application. Most probably due to issues of video piracy, it was only available on a few Android devices. Now Hulu Plus is following suit. Hulu.com is a website that allows you to watch clips of movies and TV shows, or even entire movies or TV shows for free. One can also sign up for Hulu Plus, which, at $7.99 per month, brings some more content, as well as allowing users to access Hulu from more devices, instead of just being able to watch from a browser. Hulu Plus was available for a while on the iPhone, Playstation 3, and XBOX 360, but the latest addition to the app lineup is Hulu Plus for Android. However, like the Netflix app for Android, Hulu Plus for Android is only available on a select six devices, with more devices coming late

It's this time of year all over again! Apple holds a developer's conference every year in San Francisco called WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference, discussing, usually from more of an app developer's point of view, some of the new products or services that Apple is creating. This year's event was sold out in less than ten hours, and tickets weren't cheap either, so we'll see what they paid to see. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO (Currently on medical leave), with the help of some fellow Apple employees, announced three new products/services, and showed off one more, that had already been announced. None of these three products are actual physical products, but they are just as interesting. Apple's iCloud logo iCloud:  The first product announced is called iCloud , and is an online service similar to the current, and slowly phasing  out, Apple service Mobile Me. iCloud is an online service that stores and syncs "your music, photos, apps, documents,

A lot has been going on at the current tech conference D9, from Google announcing it's first city supported on the new Google Offers , and now to Microsoft officially showing off, for the first time, Windows 8. Windows, Microsoft's widely used operating system, has gone though many versions over the the years, most recently XP, Vista, and 7. There have been many rumors about what we may see in the next version of Windows, which Microsoft is calling Windows 8. Many of the rumors involved blurring the line between desktop Windows and Windows Phone 7 .  The presentation Microsoft gave at D9 really showed that they were trying to blur the line between the desktop and mobile operating system. Microsoft also published a video, the first in a series of many, showing some of the new features found in Windows 8. As shown in the video below, the new Windows 8 UI will be based on the same tiles design as Windows phone 7, but will also have the ability to run regular Windows apps.

Google had announced their Google Offers service, a service that sends you daily deals for a specific city, a while back. However, the service only started rolling out today, and in one city: Portland, Oregon. If you live in Portland, you can now go to offers.google.com , and sign up to receive daily deals by email. Support for New York City and San Francisco will come this summer, with more cities on their way. There are many services already that are similar to Google Offers, like Groupon and Living Social , so we kind of already know what to expect. The deals will most likely be for something that you weren't going to buy in the first place, but now that it's 50% off, you might.  An example given by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement of the offers service is pictured below, and shows a certain coffee shop, which is offering $10 worth of drinks for only $5. Although you probably won't find those kinds of deals for a Starbucks, it still may

Students and business-people alike both need, on occasion, to type up a paper really quick, or to create a quick presentation for their meetings the next day. Up until now, if all you had on you was an iPhone or iPod touch, you were mostly out of luck. Using some free or paid apps, you could type up a few sentences, but adding formatting or pictures was really just not possible. Until now. In a press release earlier this morning, Apple, the makers of the iPhone and iPod touch, announced three new apps for the iPhone, all of which are branded as part of the "iWork Suite". These three apps are Pages, which allows for some heavy word-processing power, Keynote, which allows you to create slick looking presentations, and Numbers, Apple's spreadsheet-creating app. All three of these apps were first available on the Macintosh, then later came to the iPad, and now have finally arrived on the iPhone and iPod touch. Each app is available in the iTunes App Store, and will cost you $

For a few days, there has been some rumors and speculation about ASUS' new tablet device, thought to be called the Padfone. All rumors were wither denied or confirmed at today's official unveiling of the Padfone. The Padfone was announced earlier today during the first day of the Computex exhibition in Taiwan.  The idea of the Padfone is that it will sell as a tablet/phone combo running Android. When one needs a bigger screen, say, for watching a movie or playing a game, you can just slide the phone into a slot in the back of the tablet, and your screen is suddenly magically bigger. The tablet also has a bigger battery in it, so when your phone is low on juice, you can just pop it into the back of the tablet, and it will start charging.  With the Padfone, there is no need to buy a separate data plan for both the phone and tablet, because the tablet can just use the 3G data connection built into the docked phone. Although it is unclear whether the tablet part of the Padfone will

Earlier today, Microsoft held a press event, announcing some of the newest features that will be found in the latest edition of their mobile phone operating system, Windows Phone 7 . This update to the operating system is code-named Mango. Andy Lee, president of Microsoft's mobile division, took the stage today and announced some of the new features that will be found in Mango. To start off, Twitter and LinkedIn will now be integrated into Windows Phone 7. Also, the homescreen will be updated slightly, so that notifications are pushed more. Call history will be sorted by person, and you will be able to see all of the calls, texts, IMs, and visual voicemail (another new feature in Mango) all in one "list". Related to this, a new feature in Mango will be the ability to group friends into groups. Groups will show all of those friend's activity, be it calls, texting, or even social networking activity. One can also communicate with all of the members in a group. Although