Android fans may be excited to learn that a working .APK file of Netflix for Android is now available, although streaming movies will not work.

The leaks comes via the upcoming LG Revolution smartphone, which had its software dumped.

Netflix will be available to select Android 2.2+ phones in the future, but the company has not confirmed which devices.

For now, anyone with 2.2 can try the APK, which will let you login and manage you queue. Trying to stream will get you hit with an error code.

It is unclear why the error code exists, but most have speculated that the official app will require some DRM check to work.

You can get the app here: Netflix.apk

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According to Bloomberg, Microsoft will no longer introduce new models of the Zune line of media players, citing low demand.

The company will now focus on integrating the Zune software into Windows Phone 7 devices.

WP7 device owners will be able to use Zune for subscription unlimited music and to rent/buy movies and individual tracks.

The original Zunes were released in 2006 but did not take the market share Bill Gates hoped they would. Despite the critical success of 2009's Zune HD, the Apple iPod (in all iterations) still controls a massive 77 percent of the media player market. The Zune was only a top-10 device.

Microsoft declined to comment on the report but did offer:

We have nothing to announce about another Zune device -- but most recently have introduced Zune HD to Canada via the Zune Originals store and remain committed to supporting our devices in North America. We are thrilled by the consumer excitement for Zune across many new platforms, including Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360. Our long-term strategy focuses on the strength of the entire Zune ecosystem across Microsoft platforms.

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Jon Bon Jovi has blamed Apple and CEO Steve Jobs today for "killing music" with the success of the iTunes digital music platform.

The lead singer of the band Bon Jovi says "the magical experience" of buying records in brick-and-mortar stores is now disappearing thanks to iTunes.

Says Bon Jovi (via MSN):

Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

God, it was a magical, magical time. I hate to sound like an old man now, but I am, and you mark my words, in a generation from now people are going to say: 'What happened?' Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business.

Bon Jovi's recent tour (still ongoing), was one of the top earning in 2010.

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