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Hulu Plus: Not worth it. Yet.

The video streaming service's new premium model lacks the chops to justify its monthly fees.

As a writer and hopeless Internet addict, I probably spend more time in front of my laptop than I'd like to admit, banging out articles, reading blogs, instant messaging co-workers and friends, and viewing media. Whereas the average American now spends an estimated 34 hours a week in front of the television, it's fair to say MORE

Apple "well positioned" to enter the connected TV market in 2 to 4 years

The hurdles Steve Jobs cited last month could be easily solved, says an analyst

In a report to clients issued Friday morning, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster makes the case that Apple (AAPL) is well positioned to do for the vast wasteland of television what the iPhone did for cellular telephony -- and may in fact be preparing a stand-alone, Internet-connected TV for release within the next two to four years.

If his MORE

Why you should care about HTML5

With a range of new features, the web language's prominence may come sooner rather than later. But several key companies are reluctant to give it love.

Tech giants like Apple have been quick to plug HTML5 as the web language of the future -- and consequently, a "Flash killer"-- but when it comes to features and how those will affect mainstream users, there's been little in the way of clear explanation.

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Hacking Android: EVO gets rooted, Froyo does Hulu, more

Android developers are already knee deep into the latest Google technology released at I/O last week and have made some significant breakthroughs.

Sprint EVO 4G rooted:
What happens when you give away 5000 of your smartphones to the some pretty clever developers at the Google I/O (GOOG) conference?  Sprint (S) found out yesterday when its yet-to-be-released HTC EVO (the most amazing smartphone I've ever touched btw) was rooted.

That means that developers will soon be able MORE

Android phones to get Hulu?

The latest Dell phone leaks point to a version of Hulu running on their upcoming Android devices.  The question is whether it will be Flash-based or HTML5?

Engadget today posted images of an upcoming Dell Android phone called the Thunder.  Along with other high end features, it advertises the ability to play Hulu, possibly in Flash or a standalone app. That is something that mobile device users have been after for MORE

What Facebook and Hulu aren't doing

Liza Minnelli once sang a song about a gal who traveled around the world to meet the guy next door. Two of the more interesting presentations I heard Tuesday at the DLD tech conference in Munich were about California companies I know well. (DLD, one of whose organizers is the Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, is for many  a warmup to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where I'm headed next.)

Why Facebook  Won't MORE

Will "TV Everywhere" go anywhere?

Only if industry players successfully balance content, customer experience and revenue models

By Tom MacIsaac, CEO, ExtendMedia

Add this to the list of things the Internet has changed: Your cable or satellite company now wants to let you, as a subscriber, watch the content you've paid for on any device you want, any time you want.

The cable crowd has little choice: consumers are accustomed to time shifting their television viewing MORE

MySpace faces the music

To battle back against Facebook, MySpace tunes into more online music

MySpace, the once and would-be king of social media, is increasingly turning

toward music to combat a dominant Facebook, and keep its 125 million users coming back.

On Wednesday in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Summit, MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta announced the launch of two new music products for the online site – one for the fans, the other for MORE

What works on TV won't work online forever

By Keith Richman, CEO, Break Media

It has become fashionable to claim that it is impossible to profitably produce original video content for the web.  After all, many high-profile digital studios closed after burning through millions in venture capital, while established media companies are finally making real money by streaming prime-time shows on their websites and through ventures like Hulu.  The future of entertainment on the web, these people suggest, will MORE

Google (still) loves YouTube

The video-sharing site loses money and has failed to attract quality studio programming. So why does Google continue to pump money into it?

You would think Google's executive triumvirate -- CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page -- would be worried about YouTube. Almost three years after they forked over $1.65 billion in stock to acquire the video-sharing site, YouTube last year delivered only an estimated $240 million MORE