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 three particular stories of interest today… Tweet This Post

The Boxee Box will go to market next month with Vudu, the digital movie service Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) acquired earlier this year. Vudu will also be available in Boxee’s free media center software, marking the service’s first entry into the PC marketplace (also on Mac and Linux)… Tweet This Post

AOL has hired Jon Dube as its new GM of news, according to a tweet from Saul Hansell, the former New York Times reporter who now works as programming director of AOL’s Seed.com efforts. Dube was previously vice president of ABCNews… Tweet This Post

The next generation of display technology is still that, next, but despite being a future away it continues to get better. Liquavista keeps wowing us with various demonstrations of its electrowetting technology offering full color, high refresh rates, visibility in all lighting conditions, and low power consumption to boot… Tweet This Post

All U.S. and Canadian search advertisers on Bing and Yahoo are now using Microsoft’s ad-management tools, the companies said today, ending the biggest stages of the transition. Tweet This Post

James Cameron announced today that he will make two more Avatar movies as follow-ups to the biggest blockbuster of all time. That’s going to be a good thing for Silicon Valley because Cameron is the biggest advocate for the advancement of 3D technology and he has invented many cool 3D technologies that will be useful [...]

Sometimes it feels that the likes of Brightcove and Ooyala, and their myriad competitors, are something of a hammer to crack a nut in the world of enterprise video platforms. To small and medium sized firms these players can appear pretty expensive and complex in their pricing, so smaller businesses often grudgingly revert to cheap [...]

Unveiled today at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is the world’s fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark… Tweet This Post

Steve Jobs is back in the air: He racked up $93,000 in company-paid private jet expenses last quarter, according to Apple’s 10-K.Join the conversation about this story » Tweet This Post

Pack a lob wedge or extra utility iron? Punch and run or flop and drop? Crush a five iron or hit a three-quarter four? These are just a few of the questions that amateur golfers wish they had to ponder as they instead devote their time to rummaging through the brush trying to find what [...]

As it gets ready to launch Windows Phone 7 on Nov. 8 in the U.S., Microsoft has quietly introduced a new price for its Zune Pass subscription service. Prior to now, users could get unlimited streaming and download access to the Zune music library for $15 per month… Tweet This Post

Scoring the big kahuna, BilltoMobile is announcing today it has partnered with AT&T to offer mobile phone users to directly purchase goods online via their mobile phone accounts. Just as the company’s name suggests, BilltoMobile lets you pay for something you want online by billing it to your mobile phone… Tweet This Post