Microsoft is now flirting with making its Xbox 360 movie download service very nearly interesting thank to a new deal announced today with Netflix.
The software giant has scored a pact to stream a portion of Netflix’s movie library on its game console online network. About 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to rent from Netflix when it launches in late fall.
The deal was announced at the now-downgraded gaming dog and pony show, Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
Streaming content will be “free” to Xbox Live Gold members who are also …

If your a SMS junkie but can’t afford, or simply don’t want to pay the
ridiculous data fees for sending text messages, all is not lost.Jeff Carlson at Tidbits has more.
With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software, you can send SMS messages from your iPhone for free. (To clarify, this appears to work only in the United States; Joe Kissell, who lives in France, reports that the following technique does not work with the “+33″ designation there.) The secret is a capability that already exists on your Mac: send it …