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If you're selfish and have a lot of money, join your peers and purchase an iPad!  A story by Wired showed that iPad owners are far less altruistic than non-owners and critics of the iPad are independent geeks rather than selfish elites.  The story reports that the iPad appeals mainly to self-centered workaholics and tend to not be kind or help others.  A suspected reason is that the iPad is expensive and appears to not fill any need.

My only impression of the article is: If someone's got $500 to spend on something useless, if they spend it on themselves instead of using some to help others-- isn't it obvious that they're probably not the most altruistic person around?  I'm glad I haven't got an iPad...

Read at Wired

Not that anybody cares, but the Microsoft Kin is dead.  It was supposed to revolutionize tweens giving them the ability to keep connected socially all the time, but since every smartphone can do that anyway, it flopped.

Here's Microsoft's quote: "We have made the decision to focus exclusively on Windows Phone 7 and we will not ship KIN in Europe this fall as planned. Additionally, we are integrating our KIN team with the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating valuable ideas and technologies from KIN into future Windows Phone releases. We will continue to work with Verizon in the U.S. to sell current KIN phones."

Sorry Kin, but I don't think you will have too many attendees at your funeral.

For the past couple of months rumors about a Hulu partnership with videogame consoles have been swirling along with even more rumors of the possible implementation of a paid service to either augment or replace the current, free, one.  All those rumors were put to rest today as Hulu announced, through their official blog, the creation of Hulu plus, a paid service which will allow you to watch an expanded catalog of shows on your Samsugn internet-connected TV, iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, third generation iPod touch.