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Blockbuster will integrate its OnDemand film download-to-rent service to Blu-Ray player by the first quarter of next year. This was revealed by the company Chairman Jim Keyes. Last week the company released a new gadget for its rental service. This will now allow users to download HD quality movies straight from Blockbuster. Bandwidth may cause problem for users as they will have to wait long to download the movie, admitted Keyes.

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Ecorio, one of the ten G1 apps that was awarded $275,000 at the Android Developer Challenge recently – helps you keep track of your carbon footprints. The app constantly runs in the background while you are traveling, and keeps track of your trips through G1’s GPS navigation system.

After calculating down on how much you should cut back, it provides you solutions through its three features of Reduce, Inspire and Offset. These features provide some convenient alternatives to erase your carbon footprints – checkout the video above for more.

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Playing video games is one of the top pastimes for children these days, almost more than watching TV. We created AOL PlaySavvy to help parents navigate through all the gaming information out there in order to decide what’s appropriate for their children.

The new content site is a part of the GameDaily section of AOL’s content network.

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Linux recently joined the Apple’s iPhone platform. It simply means that the Linux OS can now be run on the iPhone. Linux OS on iPhone is controlled through a USB keyboard and supports the first and second generation of iPhones and the first generation of iPod Touch. This may open up door for Google’s Android as there is a possibility to run it on the iPhone. If that really happens then it would create a lot of problem for Apple as they will have to fight in their own territory.

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PayPal is acting responsible or at least pretending to be by helping parents tighten their children’s spending. The new system, PayPal Student Account, provides parent with an easy way to give their children some financial independence (a check on their spendings to be precise). It lets parents create up to branch their main account into four divisions (at most)  and thus distribute an amount in cash at one time or fix it up as a recurring one (pocket money). The money children have can be spent on any Web site that accepts payment via PayPal. It also facilitates easy transfer by simply texting get $(followed by the amount) to PayPal, which upon approval from the parents is transferred.

Call it saving parents from the every day squabble when it comes to their children asking for cash or putting some sort responsibility upon the young ones to spend money efficiently, I think it’s going to work both ways, until the bright kids figure out a way to transfer cash at will (you know what I am talking about).

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Presently is a hosted micro-update platform that allows members of a team to update others about their work and activities. Users can add text attachments, broadcast message to a group or account, share photos and other attachments. The homepage contains a textbox at the right side and below that you can see your following, your followers and the groups you have joined. On the left side you will be able to see the latest updates. You can also check out the questions asked by other in the Question section. Other than this you can create tags on update in order to categorize information, customize the color of application and receive updates through text and instant message.

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Ding It’s Up is a unique service that provides you website downtime alerts via Twitter. You can get updates in your email, mobile or Twitter about when a site goes back up. The service sends you a message about the concerned website (that you entered), and you don’t even need to register for this service.

Ding It’s Up and more services like these are used by webmasters who have to monitor their own sites, though it’s also useful for people who are frequent users of Twitter, YouTube and other social tools/networks.

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After taking all the time they could to ensure that the Amazon SimpleDB did well in the private beta, the team brings it out for the public. The SimpleDB is pretty simple with a free signup and it’s a great news given its the first time they have offered a Web service for free. The offer lasts six months, during which users can utilize the given amount of data transfer machine processing, after which they will have to pay as they use it. The blog post mentions

You can now get started for free. For at least the next six months, you can consume up to 500 MB of storage, and you can use up to 25 machine hours each month. You can transfer 1 GB of data in, and another 1 GB out. You can move as much data to and from Amazon EC2 as you would like, for free.

Amazon also plans to bring out its own interface much like the known SQL with additional plans to enable transferring of multiple items in one go.

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Apple’s speeding up the opening of its Greensboro Store and while Apple does keeps itself busy there are reports of some quarrel shaping up. The reason that has so far shaped up is; the has been some sort of argument, whether the place is even worth Apple? The property owners have been targeted as the entire cost has touched $1.7 million, more than the $1.6 million Apple invests per store. The argument may bear no fruit now as the store is getting geared up to launch by this Christmas (hopefully).

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