Month: June 2011

Deals Now that Hulu’s parent companies have retained investment bankers to explore a possible sale of the catch-up TV service — following earlier reports of an unsolicited bid from Yahoo — handicapping the Who Buys Hulu sweepstakes has become more or less de rigueur for industry pundits and bloggers. Therefore, in order to maintain my membership Read More …

Retail Good on Sony Pictures for partnering with Walmart and Vudu on a digital movie card for Battle: Los Angeles. Starting Tuesday, Walmart shoppers will be able to buy the cards for $14.96, and then use the provided code to watch the movie on their PC from the Vudu website or on any of the Read More …

Digital Living Room The Apple TV cheese stands alone. For all the nifty new functionality built into iOS 5 and Apple’s new multi-device iCloud platform it appears that very little of it will find its way into Apple TV. About the only new reindeer game Apple TV will get to join in for now is Read More …

Cloud Now that we know the basic contours of the new iTunes in the cloud from Apple we can make some guesses as to why it took so long for Apple to nail down deals with the record labels. As it did when it when it first persuaded the labels to lock themselves into a Read More …

Cloud Steve Jobs himself, back at least temporarily from medical leave, will take the stage Monday to keynote Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, where he’ll officially unveil Apple’s new iCloud service. According to numerous leaks, Apple has inked deals with all four major music distributors allowing it to launch a fully licensed, cloud-based system in which music Read More …