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<a href="/article/11397"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11397', 'show')">Hulu Plus Brings Subscription TV to iOS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11397" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11397">Hulu has finally released a preview of its software for iOS: Hulu Plus. The service costs $9.99 per month, but includes full episodes - in HD, where available - from ABC, NBC, and Fox, as well as a vast backlist. The service will work with Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players, gaming systems, and computers, too.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=1" class="category">Entertainment</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 29 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11397#comments">4 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11396"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11396', 'show')">Virgin Mobile Offers MiFi Mobile Hotspot without Contract</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 28 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11396#comments">15 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11381"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11381', 'show')">iBooks 1.1 Adds PDF Support, Runs on All iOS Devices</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> and <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 23 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11381#comments">9 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11374"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11374', 'show')">Google Voice Opens to All Americans</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 22 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11374#comments">6 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11375"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11375', 'show')">AT&T Makes Eligibility Transfer Process Clearer</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11375" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11375">If you're using the eligibility of another person on your AT&T family plan to upgrade to an iPhone 4, AT&T has instructions for activating your phone with the right phone number. They worked for me.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 22 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11375#comments">12 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11372" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11372">Apple tells Business Insider that the iPhone 4 video chat feature FaceTime uses voice minutes only to set up the initial connection. Once video chat begins, the voice connection is no longer used. While this makes sense - just as with iChat video, a peer-to-peer data connection is built for the connection - Apple didn't explain this so clearly at the iPhone 4 announcement or thereafter.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11373"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11373', 'show')">iOS 4 Available for Download</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 21 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11373#comments">10 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11367" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11367">A new extension for Firefox ensures that Web connections made to any Web site that supports SSL/TLS encryption are always conducted via that secure method.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=13" class="category">Safe Computing</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11367#comments">1 comment</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11368"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11368', 'show')">Apple Adds Find My iPhone App and Updates Web App</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 18 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11368#comments">18 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/10872"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('10872', 'show')">Find Free and Inexpensive Wi-Fi</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_10872" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_10872">Why pay for Wi-Fi? This article is our ongoing guide for finding free Wi-Fi in the United States, with reminders about how to use Wi-Fi services that your broadband provider may already offer you. We also offer tips about paying the least for the best.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=5" class="category">Networking</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 13 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/10872#comments">15 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11344" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11344">TidBITS editor Glenn Fleishman explains in some depth at Ars Technica how so much Wi-Fi network congestion was in the air at the WWDC keynote. Based on discussions with two Wi-Fi experts, one of whom ran Apple's Mac networking hardware group for seven years, the iPhone 4 likely had a Wi-Fi driver bug, possibly triggered by the congestion.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11336"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11336', 'show')">Anti-Social Software Turns Your Tweet Off</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11336" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11336">New software from the maker of the Freedom utility enables you to disable your access to social-networking sites for a period of time you determine.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=7" class="category">Business Apps</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11336#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11338"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11338', 'show')">AT&T Allows Eligibility Transfers in Family Plan</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 09 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11338#comments">10 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11325"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11325', 'show')">New iPhone 4 Still Had Secrets to Reveal</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11325" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11325">The autopsy photos of the lost iPhone prototype may have revealed a lot about its innards, but the revelation of the real deal, dubbed the iPhone 4, showed off much more. The new iPhone is faster, sports improved networking, carries two cameras, and includes a gyroscope, among many other improvements.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 07 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11325#comments">16 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11317"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11317', 'show')">AT&T Ends Unlimited iPhone and iPad Data Plans</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11317" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11317">AT&T has abruptly pulled the plug on its unique unlimited cellular data plans for new subscribers for the iPhone and 3G iPad, while at the same time announcing iPhone tethering. New plans are cheaper, but require data budgeting. Could the news mean a Verizon Wireless iPhone is on its way?</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=17" class="category">iPhone iPad iPod</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> and <a href="/author/Mark%20H.%20Anbinder">Mark H. Anbinder</a> | 02 Jun 2010 | <a href="/article/11317#comments">32 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11307"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11307', 'show')">Pondering Friendship Online: Focus on Intimacy</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11307" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11307">What are the qualities of friendship? Who do you think of when asked about your friends? If someone says he or she is your friend, must you accept that unilaterally? Most popular online services now force you to confront these questions.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=2" class="category">Opinion</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 28 May 2010 | <a href="/article/11307#comments">13 comments</a></div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11298" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11298">Google is trying to counter waves of bad publicity about how it handles data and discloses its actions by offering a beta test of a secure Web site for search.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=6" class="category">Tech News</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 23 May 2010</div></div>
<a href="/article/11293"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11293', 'show')">Adobe Releases HTML5 and CSS3 Support for Dreamweaver CS5</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=4" class="category">Media Creation</a> | by <a href="/author/Glenn%20Fleishman">Glenn Fleishman</a> | 19 May 2010 | <a href="/article/11293#comments">3 comments</a></div></div>
<a href="/article/11189"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11189', 'show')">Trust, But Verify: TidBITS Commenting System Succeeds</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_11189" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_11189">We launched TidBITS article page comments ten months ago, and have been more than pleased with the results. We think a few key decisions have helped keep the wheat-to-chaff ratio high.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
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<a href="/article/11279"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('11279', 'show')">MaxRoam Offers micro-SIM for European 3G iPad Roaming</a></h4>
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