Netflix Gets Into The Original Content Game, Buys Upcoming Show For A Rumored $100m

Netflix got its start as the red-envelope movie rental service, later turning into the video streaming authority (bankrupting Blockbuster in the process), and now may be making yet another major move: bankrolling original content. Deadline Hollywood reports that Netflix successfully outbid HBO and AMC for the rights to House Of Cards, an adaptation of the successful 1990 British miniseries. The show reportedly stars Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey, who we know isn’t cheap, and David Fincher, who is hotter than ever following the success of The Social Network.

Netflix Gets Into The Original Content Game, Buys Upcoming Show For A Rumored $100m

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Developers Go Nuts Over Upcoming Google Event (GOOG)

Google engineering VP Vic Gundotra just posted on Twitter that Google I/O 2011, the company's annual conference for developers, has sold out in less than an hour.

It took Google 50 days to sell all the seats for last year's conference, and 90 days to sell it out in 2009.

The quick sellout shows a ton of developer interest in Google's platforms, particularly Android. Gundotra demonstrated a lot of upcoming Android features at last year's event, but some of them -- like the online music service that let users buy a song once to get it on multiple devices -- are still MIA.

The conference takes place on May 10 and 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco and SAI will be there live.

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iPad’s Innovations to be replicated in upcoming OS X Lion

The unbelievable success of the iPhone and iPad are changing the face of computing as we know it. The iOS software that powers the devices has been so successful that Apple is transposing it onto Mac OS X Lion. Each new release of OS X brings us innovative software changes and moves us forward in computing and OS X Lion, the eighth release of the software will be no exception.