Internet video startup Hulu today announced the beta of a new high-definition video service: Today we’re excited to launch an HD Gallery featuring a selection of High Definition video clips at 1280 x 720 resolution. Those of you with a fast internet connection of 2,400 Kbps or higher, the latest build of Adobe Flash Player […]

If you haven’t seen Yo Gabba Gabba yet, sorry if we just ruined the rest of your week. This stuff is insanely catchy, more than a bit weird and you’re probably going to be singing “there’s a party in my tummy” for days. You have our apologies. But the real blame goes on NickJr. They’ve […]

Net Applications has released the latest version of its Internet Operating System Marketshare report, and it reveals some interesting information about the popularity of Apple’s iPhone. After just five months on the market, the iPhone commands .09% of the marketshare of devices browsing the Internet. The iTouch adds another .01%. Together, Apple’s handheld Internet devices […]

Natali Del Conte, host of the technology podcast TeXtra, is reported to be leaving Podshow & TeXtra to host a show for CNET TV.¬† Del Conte will be moving from San Francisco to New York and joining the CNET TV team. Del Conte’s has been one of the rising stars of Podshow’s lineup. While some […]

Worldwide internet ad spending will jump to $44.6 billion in 2008, from about $36 billion, increasing its share of the market to 9.4% from 8.1%, according to ZenithOptimedia. “We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years,” according to¬† ZenithOptimedia’s forecast, scheduled for release Dec. 3. “We expect it to overtake […]

Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today announced that SUP, a Russian media conglomerate, has acquired LiveJournal (LJ), a top blogging/social networking site. SUP has launched an American company, LiveJournal, Inc., to manage and operate LiveJournal globally. This agreement builds on the established and successful relationship between Six Apart and SUP, which entered into a […]

Deutsche Grammophon, the world’s leading classical music record label, has launched the DG Web Shop, a digital music store that offers the majority of the label’s recordings as MP3 downloads. Almost 2,500 DG albums will be available for download at a transfer bit-rate of 320 kilobits per second (kbps). The label will be available in […]

Remember the public split between Apple and NBC a few months back? NBC wanted to jack up the prices for TV show downloads via iTunes from $1.99 per episode to $4.99. In response, Apple announced that it would not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season in iTunes. NBC & Apple’s agreement […]

The New York Times has an overview of the state of mainstream Internet video today that asks “What happens to the television industry when the traditional way for content to find its audience becomes obsolete?”: ‚ÄúThere‚Äôs a lot of rewriting of the concept of windows in the TV network world today ‚Äî the timing of […]

After years of attack from everyone from privacy advocates to consumer rights groups to so-called “freetards”, it looks like DRM’d music may finally get killed off by Wal-Mart & Pepsi. And it’s not because they care about your rights as a consumer. It’s because they want onto your iPod. According to an article in Billboard, […]