Welcome to this morning's edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.
Netflix Spins Off DVD Business
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has announced that Netflix will be dividing its DVD and streaming video businesses and rebranding the DVD division under the "Qwikster" name.
LG Announces Tegra 2 QWERTY Smartphone
LG has announced an Android 2.3-based smartphone with a slide-out, full QWERTY keyboard called Optimus Q2. It sports a freshly-upgraded 1.2 GHz Tegra 2 CPU, which should make it one of the best-performing Androids on the market.
Analyst: No iPad 3 Until 2012
While Apple might already be working on the next iteration of the iPad, J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz says it won't launch before the holiday season.
Samsung to Sue Apple as Soon as iPhone 5 Arrives
Although details about the next generation of Apple‘s iPhone haven't yet been released, Samsung is already planning to prevent it from going on sale in Korea, according to reports.
Further News
Burberry has partnered with Twitter to develop what the two companies are calling a “Tweetwalk" for its runway show Monday, in which Twitpics of every look will be taken and shared with the brand’s followers on Twitter before anyone else sees them.
Actor Alec Baldwin took to his Twitter account hours before the opening of The Emmy Awards to let fans know that Fox had removed a joke he made about the News Corp phone hacking scandal from the show’s opening sketch.