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Oprah announced that she will exclusively air her flagship program on the Oprah Winfrey Network beginning 2011. The move finds Oprah walking away from her massive syndication deals, in an attempt to flesh out the programming of her new venture with Discovery. If Oprah does not move the Oprah show to the OWN network, Discovery may take the network away from the superstar.

Samsung is set to begin bundling internet with 23 different new TV’s and three Blu-ray players. While other companies like LG, Sony and Sharp have also manufactured lines with similar connectivity, only 12% of flat screen televisions sold in September were outfitted with an Internet connection. With Samsung making the push, and increased streaming services from Netflix and Blockbuster, streaming the web through your television may finally be a viable way to access entertainment.

Verizon is now offering customers the chance to purchase prepaid data plans. However, while users will be able to pay for a prepaid amount of data, they will be subject to a hefty convenience charge. Users looking to buy data seperately from their wireless plan will have the option of a daily ($15 for 75 mb), weekly ($30 for 250 mb) or monthly ($50 for 500 mb) plan.

Best Buy announced that it will install mobile applications on Google Android based smart phones purchased at its store. The free in-store mobile application set up is one way Best Buy hopes to lure in potential Android customers. The goal is to show customers “what is available to them and how they can bring it to life on their device.”

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Walmart and Hewlett-Packard have teamed for a $300 computer. The computer, which is priced like a netbook but built like a full-fledged laptop, features a 250GB hard drive, 3 GB of RAM, a DVD burner, a 15.6 inch screen and is powered by Microsoft’s Windows 7. Designed exclusively for Walmart, the computer could be a major victory for shoppers looking for the power of bigger laptop for the price of a netbook.

Leaked photo’s of Microsoft’s Courier hit the web yesterday. The booklet, which is rumored to be similar to Apple’s secret tablet, features two 7-inch multi-touch screens, which fold together like a book. The Courier also features a built-in camera and Wi-Fi connection and may be key player in the burgeoning tablet business.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Intel, noting that the chip manufacturer made illegal bribes to computer manufacturers in order to get placement of its chips on their machines. The suit is similar to one brought upon Intel in Europe, in which the EU ruled against Intel and required the company to pay a fine of $1.45 billion.

EMI will begin selling instantly recorded live concerts at its artists shows. The largest recorded music company in the world hopes its new Abbey Road Live series will allow fans to purchase a live recording of a concert immediately following the show on either CD, DVD, USB or through a digital download. While the service has been around for years, EMI hopes a widespread push in North America and Europe will help the label recoup low album sales.

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According to T-Mobile, about 22% of male texters end their sms messages to their male friends with hugs and kisses. Lower case x’s, which denote little kisses, and even upper case x’s or multiple x’s which denote big kisses. If you’re a man who likes to kiss and text, T-mobile says you’re a metrotextual.

Best Buy and Roxio CinemaNow are teaming to stream first run DVDs to users. The move between the retailer, who relies heavily on DVD sales and the streaming service owned by SonicSolutions, finds Best Buy expanding its streaming service to customers by going online. Best Buy currently offers Netflix streaming through Best Buy branded Blu-ray players, however, bringing an online streaming service to market accomplishes one of the company’s biggest goals. “To have broad availability in the marketplace, across multiple devices.”

Twitter is expanding its language services and finally making the service available in Spanish. While users have been able to write in their own languages, Twitter in Spanish translates the entire site to the language, which the company hopes will make the service more attractive to Spanish speaking users worldwide. The company plans on readying the French, German and Italian languages for use shortly.

The T-Mobile USA network experienced a massive outage yesterday. Customers trying to access the mobile web and send calls endured great pains while the network was down. It is estimated that the outage began around 5:29 pm and lasted for eight hours.

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According to many reports, Apple is currently working on a subscription television service for iTunes. Apple is currently shopping the deal, which would cost consumers an estimated $30 a month, with all major networks. While details are slim, a subscription offer could be similar to “TV Everywhere,” while also being the first major TV subscription service available on the web.

Paramount is getting into the memory card game and will release Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on a USB drive. While studios and record companies have flirted with the medium over the years, usually in limited quantities, a deal between Paramount and Kingstone, a USB drive manufacturer, could make the format more popular, with additional titles coming in the future. The real question is will consumers pay $30 for a jump drive they cannot directly hook up to their television?

eBay is increasing PayPal’s functionality through the new PayPal X software. The new feature will allow users to make purchases with PayPal inside of applications and games without having to sign in separately. The company hopes to integrate the software with video games, social networks, mobile applications and other services, to make PayPal “easier for you to use.”

Apple is thwarting hackers and netbook afficiandos by upgrading its Snow Leopard operating system. Netbook users often hack the Snow Leopard operating system in order to run it on netbooks, making the small machines run like Mac’s rather than factory mini-computers. While the upgrade will render Snow Leopard useless on netbooks, older versions of the operating system will still run on netbooks.

Marvell, the chip maker not the entertainment company, announced that it is set to enter the eReader world. the company will market new digital content platforms that work with E-Ink, the electronic paper company who helped develop Amazon’s Kindle. Three offerings, including the enTourage Edge, which blends the features of an eReader with a netbook, will hit retail stores in early 2010.

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After introducing a new Lists feature to select users last week, Twitter has now made Lists available to all Twitter users. Lists give Twitter users the ability to organize tweets into different categories, helping to ease the following and viewing process. Users will also be able to share lists openly, which will benefit followers by giving them filtered access to the best Twitter accounts to follow.

HTC’s Droid Eris, the manufacturer’s first Google Android phone for Verizon Wireless, will retail reportedly retail for $99, after a $100 mail in rebate. The 8GB smart phone is powered by Android 1.5, an updated version of the operating system, and features a built-in video camera, amongst other popular features. Droid Eris and the Droid from Motorola will both hit Verizon stores this coming Friday and will give consumers a new option in purchasing a quality smart phone.

Sony’s new slim 250GB PS3 has already hit Best Buy warehouses and will be available for purchase tomorrow. The new console is essentially the same as the 120 GB and will retail for $349.99. For fifty dollars more than the 120GB, customers will have the ability to store more than twice the amount of data, films, games and other applications and downloads on the console.

According to a recent filing with the FCC, Flip is set to bring a new product called Flipshare TV to market. While details haven’t been announced, the new device is expected to wirelessly feed video uploaded to a computer directly to a connected television. The product could be a great equalizer for users looking to watch home made video on their television simply, giving another reason to purchase its signature handheld Flip HD video cameras.

In today’s super-competitive job market, having a well formatted, easy to read resume is an absolute requirement. Most HR experts agree that you also need a concise, on-point cover letter to give you the best chance for success.

Before your life became digital, you would go to the stationary store and buy very good paper so that your resume and cover letter would look great. Then, you would transport them in a large envelope so that you would not have to fold them. You should still do all of this for an in-person meeting, but if you are applying for a position via email, here’s how to get the best results:

Since you’re using email to apply, put the entire contents of your cover letter in the body of the email. Make sure you use a plain text email, do not use any fancy formatting or HTML code or include any pictures or logos of any kind. This will ensure that the person who gets the email will see it exactly as you wrote it and they will be able to read it using any email software on any computer. Make sure that you include a text only email signature with your complete contact information. By text only I mean ASCII text, plain text or rtf (rich text format) — do not use an HTML email as a cover letter. Only plain text emails format adaptively format with reasonably predictable results on every email client. Don’t use tabs, don’t use bullets, and don’t use any formatting of any kind in your email cover letter. Just type it like an email and use the key between paragraphs. This way, what you send is what they will see.

What you send is what they see, is really important for your resume too. Formatting a resume takes time and you want to make sure that when someone reads it, it looks exactly like you expected it to.

In order to make sure what you send, is what they see, you can’t send a word processing document, you must send a .pdf file. (.pdf is an abbreviation for Adobe’s Portable Document File format). Here’s why … A word processing document made on your computer will almost always look different on someone else’s computer, especially if you’ve used unusual fonts or done any distinctive formatting. Can you imagine spending all the time you spent to get your resume to look perfect, and then sending something that flowed over page breaks or had bullet points that didn’t line up? Sending word processing documents for presentation is very risky business. Whether it’s your resume, a report or a proposal, if you’re presenting a finished product, sending a Word document is a very bad idea.

Here’s what you do instead. Open your resume in your word-processing program and print it to a .pdf file. Unlike a .doc file, every .pdf file looks exactly the same no matter who opens it. Problem solved.

How do you do it? If you are on a Mac, the “save to .pdf” is included in every print dialog box. If you have a current version of office, you can save as a .pdf. On older machines with older versions of office, you may need to use a third party .pdf program like Adobe Acrobat. If you don’t want to spend the money on Acrobat, there are literally dozens of free .pdf utility programs available online.

One viewer wrote in that they had their resume done by a professional resume company and that they only had a paper version of the document. On the off chance that you are in the same boat, scan the document at a resolution of 300 dpi and save (or print) it to a .pdf file.

Now, just attach the .pdf file to the email cover letter and send it with confidence. Your cover letter and resume are going to look perfect no matter how the files are viewed or printed.