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Last night, I canceled my subscription to Hulu Plus, which I've had for a couple of months.

Why?

Samsung Electronics think so. The Korean company is here pitching Samsung Apps, an application platform and marketplace, to media and content providers, as well as individual third-party developers.

Google' CEO Eric Schmidt will provide the closing keynote for the IFA conference in Berlin, further testament to the increasing power of the European electronics show.

In a bid to strengthen its position in the smartphone market, chip giant Intel is moving to acquire the wireless semiconductor unit of Infineon for $1.4 billion.

Samsung Working To Sell More TVs With Web Apps This Year; the Korean electronics giant plans to spend $70 million marketing its Samsung TV apps for internet-connected TVs and other devices. (VentureBeat)

Well September has rolled around again and IBC is coming. All of our mailboxes are full of bumf, invites and some that can only be described as spam for even the hardened IBC visitor. However what will it bring this year? Previous years have been about 3D and IPTV, and of course we cannot forget mobile TV… well maybe I can forget mobile TV

Growth in shipments of various video products in the consumer electronics market, even in a year with economic uncertainty like 2009, helped the MPEG video SoC market reach over 650 million units in 2009, says In-Stat. Digital set top boxes, digital TV sets, and Blu-ray players had large roles in the increase.

Apologies to those who don’t follow the great English sport of cricket, but the definition of a googly is a pitch which is thrown with baseball’s “screwball” grip but with reverse finger spin.

I've been having a look at what TalkTalk's trials team have been doing with their Google-like concept of TalkTalk Labs, where they use the site to recruit customers interested in trying new things out such as install CDs and routers.

When Forrest Gump wrote about the IBC Conference, he likened it to a box of chocolates, it never being entirely clear what you were going to get. We do our best to enlighten you. Fortunately the organizers have done their best to theme the sessions and the result for those of us active in the multichannel television business is that while Thursday and Friday are full, the Saturday and Sunday are free enough to do some stand-hopping, before returning to the conference fray on the Monday.

TechniSat Digital will showcase a range of OEM and reference products that include a new range of DVB/IP hybrid devices, PC products with 3D functionality and its recently launched DVB-T2 set-top box for use with the UK’s Freeview HD.

Media Broadcast will demonstrate the technologies needed by today’s broadcasters. The TDF-subsidiary is ready for the transmission of standard and high definition channels over DVB-T2 while the introduction of HbbTV – as popularized in the German and French markets – will create the technical basis for the launch of hybrid, interactive services over the terrestrial system.

CI Plus users on the Cablecom network are to be permitted to record digital TV programmes after the Liberty Global-owned cabler said the current copy protection measures would be removed.

Israeli company Idioma has exported the “internet alert” concept for television, developing a technology based on the detection of key words warning the viewer in real time of a certain broadcast in any channel related to his preferences.

Amino Communications (AIM: AMO.L), the world leading developer of pure IPTV and hybrid/OTT devices and solutions, will invite visitors to IBC 2010 (stand 5.B40) to experience the true potential of “Over the Top” (OTT) entertainment.