Online video site Hulu could begin testing a paid subscription service as early as later this month, according to people briefed on the plans, a high-profile test of whether consumers will pay to watch television shows online. The popular video site is working to finalize agreements with content owners and hoping to wrap them up [...]

An increasing number of young people use the Web as an alternative to watching TV – or they use both platforms simultaneously – so programmers at provincial educational broadcaster TVO have revamped and redesigned TVOKids.com, the online destination for kids from ages 2 to 11. “The way children consume content is changing rapidly,” explained Pat Ellingson, [...]

Next up in the “Twilight Fans Are Kinda Kooky” department: At least a thousand die-hard “Twi-hards” have lined up, day and night, at the Nokia Theater in LA, where the third movie in the series, Eclipse, is set to premiere tonight. Only 550 are even guaranteed to land on the carpet. The movie’s production company, Summit [...]

In the aftermath of much-publicized breaches by heavyweights Google, Facebook, and AT&T, among others, attendees of the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference spent last week creating…

Response leads Apple to reconsider previously rejected apps Apple’s haphazard app review process has led to a string of recent head-scratchers industry-wide. Apple in early June censored an iPad graphic novel adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and then reversed its decision. Apple did the same with a comic adaptation of the [...]