What the hell Ubisoft, Blizzard gets it. “DRM is a losing battle…”

We rag on Ubisoft pretty hard here. But it isn’t without merit. Ubi’s blind love for customer slaying DRM is disgusting and shameful. All the while Ubi goes on proclaiming how great it is for consumers and how much we love it….right. Blizzard on the other hand understands customers (and Ubi’s customers no less) as the company has come forward stating that they will be taking a different approach…

Bitbop to become “Hulu for mobiles”?

Hulu is currently on a war path of sorts, with it’s content owners closing up holes, cramming in advertisements and effectively killing all the reasons consumers loved the service in the first place. Even worse is the fact that those same content owners (motivated by greed of course) are butchering Hulu’s transgression to mobiles. Bad for them, good for us.

Where Hulu is letting us mobile users down, Fox’s new “Bitbop” will pick up the slack…

Apple snubs AMOLED displays on 4th gen iPhone due to Samsung display shortages, cost.

We’ve already kind of seen the new 4th gen iPhone’s gorgeous display in pictures. Though nothing was actually on the screen to really “see”. Nevertheless, we all know that it will be a higher resolution beaut. But it could have been better…

Leak Verizon’s phones and your job gets canned!

Remember that Verizon gym employee who found one Motorola Shadow casually resting in between sets in the locker room? Well it turns out the company took the dude out for lunch, gave him a raise, and promoted him out of that old stuffy gym…just kidding. They canned his ass. I suspected as much. Tech companies love their secretive devices. Leaking such things is like terrorism in their eyes. It’s only obvious that once the poor soul who leaked a device is found, his job will cease to exist.

In the case of the Verizon gym employee who snapped the infamous shot but a few days earlier, unemployment is how he now rolls. If there is something good to make of it, according to the friend of the employee who wrote into Gizmodo (and actually sent in the original photo on behalf of his gym employee friend), it was the kid’s last week at Verizon anyway. So there, all’s well that ends well I guess.

Oh yeah — almost forgot the goods. If the employees words are any type of trust worthy, we can expect that Shadow to arrive with Snapdragon, 16GB of internal storage, and no keyboard. Kind of against what we were talking about earlier. Bah, we’ll just sit this one out and see what comes of it.

Thoughts?

The harsh reality: Google TV will feature unskippable ads.

Google TV really looked like a legitimate contender for my living room until these words were confirmed by Google TV project manager, Rishi Chandra: “Google TV ads will not be skippable”. Bummer. If you think about it though, Google is a company that thrives off of advertising. Of course they’re going to do anything and everything in their power to get ads in your face. Except with Google TV, these ads will supposedly be more targeted than ever, somehow equating to a winning solution for end users.

We’ll see about that.

Still think Google TV is all it’s cracked up to be?

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LauncherPro Beta: The no-nonsense, smooth, simple Android home replacement…that you need!

Android users: are you tired of home screen replacements that over promise and under deliver? Yeah, me too. But there’s hope — LauncherPro Beta.

LPB is simple — there aren’t any bloated features that bring your phone to a crawl. Simply choose how many screens you want, toggle on/off auto-rotate, and config two other options. That’s it.

But the best part is the speed. Finally, a default looking Android homescreen replacement without skins, super smooth scrolling (better than HTC’s Sense UI) and…rubber banding. Of course, the four icons along the bottom (phone, contacts, SMS, browser) and dramtically snappier app drawer are handy features too. My suggestion: make those “dock” icons customizable. Golden.

Very nice. Fire up the Android Market and download it now.

YouMail 2.0 now available in App World.

Productivity junkies, listen up. YouMail 2.0 is officially available. Along with the whole host of useful features that made YouMail 1.0 a breakthrough app back it’s glory day are several new features that you may want to look at.

A new, prettier face, better organization tools, a rework of the transcription technology, and faster delivery of voicemail mean an already solid mobile app is just that much better.

But don’t take my word for it. Instead, pilfer on through the carefully crafted press release…just after the jump.