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Hulu announced today that it’s launching its Hulu Plus paid service with an upcoming preview mode, offering a much deeper content library and access to that content across a wide variety of platforms. Content will include both current broadcast shows as well as content libraries of past shows with entire season runs. This includes full [...]

Was it just me, or was there very little substance coming out of Spring CTIA this year? It’s getting harder and harder to differentiate the show when five major shows (depending on what you cover) are crammed into the first three months of each year- CES, Mobile World Congress, Game Developers Conference, DEMO Spring, and [...]

You see it front and center in the new DROID commercials, Google knocking Apple for the iPhone’s lack of personalization as well as other inabilities. Yes, marketers have shifted the spotlight on consumer personalization over the past 2-3 years. We saw it in PCs and in consumer electronics. We saw it in web sites and [...]

Earlier today, a final mobile digital television broadcast standard— Mobile DTV— was adopted by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC). Today, the Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), which includes over 800 broadcast stations announced it was going forward to deliver digital program services to consumers-based devices, from mobile phones to in-car systems. To show off [...]

I’m sure that everyone who made the pilgrimage  to CTIA last week is glad they survivied the trek and maybe life can get back to normal now. You get a sense from the blogosphere that the show was ho-hum. For many of us, it’s been like that for a number of years, with many announcements [...]