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Hulu Plus service for iPad delayed, won’t make May 24th launch

You love Hulu on your Mac. But you’ll have to wait a little longer for it on the iPad. Per MediaMemo, sources close to Hulu have cited that Hulu’s new service, dubbed “Hulu Plus” wouldn’t make its anticipated arrival date of May 24th and in fact there was “no way” Hulu Plus would become available […]

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Hulu confirms, quickly retracts, vow of HTML5 support for iPad

Video streaming web site Hulu both posted and quickly retracted a blog post yesterday, the edited form stating that the web site doesn’t see using HTML5 in its immediate future. Per AppleInsider, Eugene Wei, vice president of product with Hulu, said that his company’s contractual requirements make the transition to HTML5 too difficult. The current […]

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Apple developing its own alternative to Flash via Gianduia

When in doubt, roll your own. As the multimedia wars continue between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, Apple is using Gianduia, a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps that it introduced World of WebObjects Developers Conference last summer, to create its own production quality apps. Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is […]

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Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta released for Mac

Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 5.0.375.29 beta for the Mac. The new version, an 25.2 megabyte download, offers the following the following changes: – HTML5 Features: Geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, file drag-and-drop. – Integrated Flash Player Plugin. – V8 performance improvements. – Preferences synchronization. – NaCl behind a flag. Google […]

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Jobs goes bananas on Adobe Flash in open letter

In the wake of several weeks of back and forth between Apple and Adobe regarding Flash, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has posted an open letter explaining Apple’s position on Flash, going back to his company’s long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. […]