This morning, music streaming service Spotify posted a YouTube demo of its new mobile app for the Googlephone. It looks sleek and addresses the obvious issue of offline synching. Interesting, too, that it starts life as an Android rather than an iPhone app; if it were to take off, it would make iTunes seem a tad redundant. There are some concerns, however, as the Indy's resident technology expert Rhodri Marsden outlines in comments here - I expect he'll post a more detailed, informed blog on the subject later. but here's a first look:

So we now have it on good authority - from the Governator himself (via Harry Knowles) - that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be appearing, in digitally rendered form, in Terminator:Salvation, the new Terminator sequel/prequel starring Christian Bale and directed by McG. And it still looks pretty darn awesome...

A trailer for low-budget sci-fi Moon, which stars the fantastic Sam Rockwell. It went down very well at Sundance, and is also the debut feature from British director Duncan Jones, the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie, son of Dave.

Here's the second trailer for Michael Mann's Public Enemies, starring the aforementioned pair of hot properties, plus Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard and more. Should be fantastic.

The future of online payments is coming, apparently. And it’s called Flattr.

One of the men behind content-sharing website and entertainment industry bugbear The Pirate Bay has been hard at work on his new project, designed to bring financial reward to those who share content online for free. After a month of silence, Peter Sunde, aka brokep – last heard twittering from the courtroom of The Pirate Bay trial – announced this morning that he’d been hard at work on Flattr.com, which is due for launch this Friday, 10 April.

Flattr, Sunde told his fellow Twitterers, is “a new idea on how to help get people money for sharing content for free.” It has nothing to do with piracy though, he claims, or at least nothing to do with torrents – the filesharing format on which The Pirate Bay is based. Instead of pirated movies and music, he says, Flattr will be a micro-payment system “to give money to bloggers, photographers, etc”.

I’m already assured by one of the Indy’s in-house geeks online experts that Flattr is bound to be an Epic Fail, because it’s impossible to do, otherwise everyone would be doing it already. I guess we’ll see.

A rough cut of the new X-Men prequel, Origins: Wolverine was leaked online last week. And here it is. Kind of.

I'm not sure this is funny, because I sort of wish it was real...


Thanks, Slate V.

 As detailed here and here, I'm a JJ Abrams fan. But in spite of his 12,560 followers (at last count), JJ has to be the world's worst celebrity Twitterer. "Coffee Time!"? I am utterly tweetless:

How do you defend yourself against a man with two dildos?

Here's a predictably wonderful new commercial from Honda, set to debut on TV in April. It's part of the campaign for the brand's new hybrid car, the Insight. Is it odd to base an eco-ad on the mass use of car headlamps? Who cares? It's awesome!

And here's a clip about the making of the ad, by the agency Wieden + Kennedy.

A New Zealand "inventor" with way too much time on his hands made this Honda-influenced Creme Egg viral. One presumes Cadbury's gave him a hand. If not, it ought to pay him now - more than 800,000 people have watched the clip since it was posted online last week.

Here it is, finally. Long overdue and, on this evidence, worth the wait...? The first trailer for Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's stone cold classic children's book, 'Where the Wild Things Are'. And with an Arcade Fire song on it, too.

For the uninitiated, a meme is an internet trend, named after a genetics term coined by Richard Dawkins, as explained here. Current TV has produced this helpful explanation of the origins and meaning of key memes, specifically, FAIL.

A fantastic first bit of marketing tat for the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers adaptation of Maurice Sendak's canonical children's book Where the Wild Things Are, courtesy of Warner Bros via this Spike Jonze fan blog.

Here's the first trailer for the next Sam Mendes movie. It has a great cast, led by Jon Krasinski (who plays Jim - the 'Tim' equivalent - in the US version of 'The Office'), and including Alison Janney, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeff Daniels. It's written by literary whiz Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida. It looks a tad too much like Juno for comfort (aren't we bored of this college-level quirkiness yet?) but I wouldn't like to presume too much too early.

Anyone who said The Daily Show would become irrelevant once Bush was out of office was, evidently, mistaken. Long story short: Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, has spent much of the past week gunning for Jim Cramer, CNBC's explosive financial pundit (and former hedge fund manager), for the way he and his network handled the financial crisis and were even, arguably, complicit in it. Cramer has cussed Stewart as a mere "comedian". The feud has been the talk of the news channels. Last night the pair met onscreen at Stewart's place, where he proved once more that he's a pretty incisive interviewer regardless of the jokes. Remember when they used to call David Frost a lightweight? (Maybe not, but you've seen the movie, right?) The show will be broadcast on More4 tonight, but here's a sneak preview.

Also, doesn't Cramer sound weirdly like Josh Lyman from the West Wing?

Some outtakes from Gervais's forthcoming Sesame Street appearance. I'm glad he pulls the puppet up on the whole pyjamas question. I've always wondered.

This made me well up when I saw it. I hope fellow C&H fans will sympathise.

A cool new GE ad from the States. Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go get me some of that smart grid technology.

The Viral Factory, London-based purveyors of online delights like this and this, have an in-house computer expert called Paul, who spends his time doing extremely productive, useful work, like the project captured in this clip, for which he strapped 24 SSDs (that's "solid-state drives" to you and I) to a home computer, making it... well, very fast. Fast enough, in fact, to copy an entire DVD movie in the time it takes for the DVD box to drop from a cute girl's hand, at a first floor window, to the ground. Totally impractical, mildly pointless - at least for the average home computer user - and engagingly silly. PS, it's secretly another viral ad for Samsung, but anyway. Carry on, Paul.